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Monday - Rob Cowan with Jeremy Vine

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Waltzes; Musical challenge; Vintage Proms 1915; Artists of the Week: the Monteverdi Choir, featured performing Bach's Magnificat.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... waltzes'. Two composers tend to spring to mind when waltzes are mentioned - Strauss II and Chopin. This week Rob features dazzling examples of the form by these two composers, as well as other composers ranging from Glazunov to Gounod, which will charm, excite and even prompt you to dance.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Vine. Jeremy began his career as a radio news reader and researcher, working as a reporter for Radio 4's Today programme, before going on to become the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's African correspondent, and presenter of news programmes including Panorama and The Politics Show. He currently has his own Radio 2 show, which discusses the news stories of the day, and also presents the quiz show Eggheads, as well as being an integral part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's election night coverage, where he offers political analysis using the famous swingometer. Jeremy will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at 10am.

10.30am
During the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms 2015 Rob takes a look at the Proms season from a century ago and plays music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Rob showcases works ranging from Liszt's Fantasie on Beethoven's Ruins of Athens to the ballet music for Massenet's Le Cid.

11am
This week Rob features recordings by one of the country's leading ensembles, The Monteverdi Choir, who are performing Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Proms this Tuesday evening. Under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the choir is known for the purity of its top line, and for the dramatic flair they bring to their performances with the Orchestre RΓ©volutionnaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists. Rob features the choir in well-loved choral masterpieces including Mozart's Mass in C minor, Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art and Bach's Magnificat.

Bach
Magnificat
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

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Mon 3 Aug 2015 09:00
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Music Played

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR

    • Percy Grainger

      I’m Seventeen Come Sunday

      Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Monteverdi Orchestra.
      • PHILIPS.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...WALTZES

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Concert Waltz No.1 in D, Op.47

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari.
      • GUILD.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lacrimosa (Requiem arr. Thalberg)

    Performer: Cyprien Katsaris. Music Arranger: Sigismond Thalberg.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's Suite: Jig

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Isaac AlbΓ©niz

    IV. Cadiz (Suite espanola, Op.47)

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • RCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata (Partita) in G major, Hob.XVI:6

    Performer: John McCabe.
    • DECCA.

  • LΓ©o Delibes

    Les filles de Cadiz

    Singer: Victoria de los Ángeles. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos.
    • EMI.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR

    • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

      Calme des nuits (2 Choruses Op.68)

      Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • PHILIPS.

  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • GyΓΆrgy Ligeti

      The Sorcerer's Apprentice (Studies bk 2)

      Performer: Yuja Wang.
      • DG.

  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Modest Mussorgsky

      A Night on Bald Mountain

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
      • SONY.

  • Gustav Mahler

    VII. Rheinlegendchen (Des Knaben Wunderhorn (version for voice & orchestra))

    Conductor: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.22: 2nd movt, Allegro Scherzando

    Performer: Aldo Ciccolini. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Serge Baudo.
    • EMI.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Marche Militaire Francaise (Suite Algerienne)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Magnificat, BWV243

      Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Patrizia Kwella. Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: David Thomas. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in F minor K.608 (arr.Dirk Altmann for wind octet)

    Music Arranger: Dirk Altmann. Ensemble: Stuttgart Winds.
    • TACET.

  • Frederick Delius

    Eventyr

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • WARNER.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesleid (Old Viennese Dances)

    Performer: Clara Rockmore. Performer: Nadia Reisenberg.
    • Clara Rockmore's Lost Theremin Album.
    • Bridge.
    • 1.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Spain (Cadiz)

The music played:

Albeniz
IV. Cadiz (Suite espanola, Op.47)
Julian Bream (guitar)
RCA

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  • Mon 3 Aug 2015 09:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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