Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Brahms Late Piano Pieces; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: conductor George Szell. With Brahms's Symphony No 4.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Brahms late piano pieces'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for Brahms's Indian summer piano works, showcasing recordings by pianists including Gerhard Oppitz, Yves Nat, Sviatoslav Richter, Arthur Rubinstein and Clifford Curzon.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
10am
Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day, is the celebrated writer and award-winning director Mike Leigh. Well known for films including Abigail's Party, Topsy-Turvy and Mr. Turner, Mike will be talking about the style of his work, how he chooses music for his films and his operatic directorial debut with a new staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor George Szell. Known for being a harsh taskmaster, Szell moulded the musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra into a world-class ensemble. Throughout the week Rob explores Szell's recordings of favourite works including Sibelius's En Saga, Josef Strauss's Delerien Waltz and Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije and reflects on the balance of mind and feeling in Szell's interpretations of five great Fourth symphonies.
Brahms
Symphony No. 4.
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Richard Wagner
ZΓΌrich Waltzes
Performer: LlΕ·r Williams.- SIGNUM.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Overture: Ruy Blas
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- LSO LIVE.
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A Op.118 No.2
Performer: Gerhard Oppitz.- RCA.
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Carlo Gesualdo
In Monte Oliveti
Orchestra: Concert Clemens. Conductor: Carsten Seyer-Hansen. -
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Richard Wagner
Rienzi: Overture
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- CBS.
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Giovanni Francesco Anerio
Christus factus est
Conductor: Martin Neary. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir.- HYPERION.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Intermezzo Interrotto (Concerto for Orchestra Sz 116)
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- FINLANDIA.
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BΓ©la BartΓ³k
Kossuth
Conductor: IvΓ΅n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.- PHILIPS.
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No.4
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- CBS.
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