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Thursday - Rob Cowan with David Quantick

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Nocturnes; Herbert: American Fantasia; Artist of the Week: violinist Nathan Milstein, featured in Goldmark's Violin Concerto in A minor.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Nocturnes'. Rob explores works with this name ranging from the poetic character pieces for piano of Chopin, FaurΓ© and John Field (the inventor of the genre) to the orchestral impressionist portraits of Debussy and Delius.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?

10am
Rob's guest is David Quantick, who started out as a rock music journalist before going on to write comic material for many of the funniest people around today, from Graham Norton and Harry Hill to Sally Phillips and Mitchell and Webb. He's written scripts for satirical TV shows including The Thick of It and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio's The Now Show, and the controversial series Brass Eye. His taste in music is wide-ranging and exploratory, and throughout the week he'll be choosing some of his favourite classical pieces by composers including Vaughan Williams, Kurt Weill and Leos Janacek.

10.30am
Following on from Monday's Building a Library recommendation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel, Rob offers his personal choice of works by American composers who wrote for the stage.

Herbert
American Fantasia
Cincinnati Pops Orchestra
Erich Kunzel (conductor)

11am
This week Rob features recordings by one of the great violinists of the 20th century, Nathan Milstein, a musician of impeccable taste whose breathtaking virtuosity burns across the years like a laser. He was a violinist's violinist who, whenever he played, was utterly at one with the instrument. Born in Odessa, Milstein studied with the great Hungarian violin teacher Leopold Auer at the St Petersburg Conservatory before settling in New York. With a career that lasted an incredible 72 years, he was worthy of his title 'the prince of the violin'.

Goldmark
Violin Concerto in A minor
Nathan Milstein (violin)
Philharmonia
Harry Blech (conductor).

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Thu 9 Jul 2015 09:00
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Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    No.3 of Three Pieces for Solo Clarinet

    Performer: Guy Deplus.
    • ACCORD.

  • Eric Coates

    Footlights - Concert Valse

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • AVIE.

  • 5 Reasons to Love... Nocturnes

    • Jean Sibelius

      Nocturne (Belshazzar's Feast)

      Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Brooks Smith. Music Arranger: Michael Press.
      • RCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Trio No.3, BWV527

    Ensemble: Austral Harmony.
    • CHACONNE.

  • Lili Boulanger

    Psalm 24

    Choir: Elisabeth Brasseur Chorale. Orchestra: Lamoureux Concerts Orchestra.

  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Variations on a theme by Tchaikovsky, Op 35a

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal DorΓ΅ti.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal DorΓ΅ti.
    • DECCA.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Simple gifts - trad. American arr. for male chorus

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis. Singer: Marilyn Horne. Music Arranger: Aaron Copland.
    • Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • David Quantick's Choice No. 1

    • Steve Reich

      Different Trains - start of 'America - Before the war' (1st mvmt)

      Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.
      • ELEKTRA/NONESUCH.

  • David Quantick's Choice No. 2

    • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

      Largo from Symphony No.9 'From the New World'

      Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
      • LSO.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Meditation, Op.32

    Performer: Nathan Milstein (violin). Orchestra: Orchestra della Svizzera italiana.

  • Victor Herbert

    American Fantasia

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • VOX BOX.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Capriccio No.5 in G major

    Conductor: Alexander Van Wijnkoop. Ensemble: Camerata Bern.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Artist of the Week: Nathan Milstein

    • Karl Goldmark

      Violin Concerto in A minor, No.1 Op.28

      Performer: Nathan Milstein. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Harry Blech.
      • TESTAMENT.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade for Winds in E-flat major, K. 375

    Performer: Heinrich Braun. Ensemble: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Clarinet Concerto / Serenade No. 11 (Symphonieorchester.
    • RCA Victor Red Seal.
    • 8 - 12.

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  • Thu 9 Jul 2015 09:00
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