Thursday - 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 Brahms's Begrabnisgesang, Op 13.
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 today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery object.
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 麻豆约拍'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 麻豆约拍'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 麻豆约拍 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 R茅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.
Brahms
Begr盲bnisgesang, Op.13
The Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).
Last on
More episodes
Music Played
-
![]()
Paul Dukas
Fanfare to precede La Peri
Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Fournet.- REGIS.
-
5 Reasons to love... Waltzes
-
![]()
Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in A minor, Op 34 No 2
Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.- RCA.
-
-
![]()
Alexander Glazunov
Stenka Razin
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari.- GUILD.
-
Proms Artists of the Week: The Monteverdi Choir
-
![]()
Claudio Monteverdi
Laudate pueri, Dominum (Vespro della Beata Vergine)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIV.
-
-
![]()
Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in G major, BWV541
Performer: Simon Preston.- DG.
-
![]()
Jean Sibelius
Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Suite, Op.22)
Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.- ONDINE.
-
![]()
Franz Schubert
Trio in E flat major D.897 'Notturno'
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.- PHILIPS.
-
![]()
Hector Berlioz
窜补茂诲别
Performer: Myung-Whun Chung. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. -
Jeremy Vine's Choice No. 1
-
![]()
John Adams
'I am the Wife of Mao Tse-tung' (Nixon in China: Act II, Scene 2)
Singer: Tracy Dahl. Orchestra: Colorado Symphony. Choir: Opera Colorado Chorus. Conductor: Marin Alsop.- NAXOS.
-
-
Jeremy Vine's Choice No. 2
-
![]()
Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No 5 in E flat major, Op 73, 'Emperor' (2nd mvt)
Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.- EMI.
-
-
![]()
Claude Debussy
Rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra
Performer: George Pieterson. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
-
![]()
George Frideric Handel
Concerto grosso in F major Op.6`9
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
- Decca.
- 19.
-
Proms Artists of the Week: The Monteverdi Choir
-
![]()
Johannes Brahms
Begr盲bnisgesang, Op 13
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SDG.
-
-
![]()
Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite No.1, BWV812
Performer: Glenn Gould.- SONY CLASSICAL.
-
![]()
Reynaldo Hahn
Sonata for violin and piano in C major
Performer: Tamsin Waley-Cohen. Performer: Hugh Watkins.- SIGNUM CLASSICS.
-
![]()
Edward Elgar
Coronation March, Op.65
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
Mystery Object
Broadcast
- Thu 6 Aug 2015 09:00麻豆约拍 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.
Time Travellers: the podcast
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.