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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Jeremy Vine

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Waltzes; Musical challenge; Vintage Proms 1915; Artists of the Week: the Monteverdi Choir, featured performing Mozart's Mass in C minor, K427.

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: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ'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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ'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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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.

Mozart
Mass in C minor, K.427
Sylvia McNair (soprano)
Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Cornelius Hauptmann (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

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Tue 4 Aug 2015 09:00
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Music Played

  • Artur Pizarro

    Prelude in D flat major, Op 34 No 15

  • Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini

    Oboe Concerto in D major

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Ensemble: I Musici.
    • NEWTON CLASSICS.

  • 5 Reasons to love... Waltzes

    • Josef Lanner

      Abendsterne Waltz

      Performer: Willi Boskovsky. Ensemble: The Boskovsky Ensemble. Director: Willi Boskovsky.
      • VANGUARD.

  • William Walton

    Johannesburg Festival Overture

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

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Harpsichord Sonata in F major, K.44

    Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • DECCA.

  • JoaquΓ­n Turina

    Five Danzas gitanas

    Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • CHANDOS.

  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    Caprice in A minor, Op 1 No 24

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Jeremy Vine's Choice No. 1

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Symphony no. 6 in B minor Op.54 (3rd mvt)

      Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
      • MARIINSKY.

  • Jeremy Vine's Choice No. 2

    • Claude Debussy

      Dialogue of the Wind and the Sea (La mer)

      Orchestra: Lucerne Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
      • DG.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    3 Pieces for cello and piano: no.1 in E flat minor; Modere

    Performer: Nicolas Altstaedt. Performer: Joe Gallardo.
    • Nicolas Altstaedt - French Cello Sonatas.
    • Naxos.
    • 2.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Isle of the Dead, Op.29

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

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Introduction & Rondo, Op. 16

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Columbia.

  • Proms Artists of the Week: The Monteverdi Choir

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Mass in C minor, K 427

      Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Diana Montague. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Cornelius Hauptmann. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • PHILIPS.

By Association

Answer: Rachmaninov and Paganini

The music played:

Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini
Yuja Wang (piano)
Mahler Chamber Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG

Broadcast

  • Tue 4 Aug 2015 09:00
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