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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Julian Glover

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Vladimir Horowitz; Bach: Mass (excerpt); Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Mozart's Violin Sonata in E minor.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Vladimir Horowitz'. Rob makes the case for the Russian-American pianist as one of the 20th century's great musical interpreters. Throughout the week he showcases Horowitz's ability to transform Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas into finely crafted piano miniatures, his individual approach to Chopin's mazurkas, his colourful interpretations of Czerny, the genius of his transcriptions and arrangements of Liszt and his understanding of Scriabin's mysterious muse.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?

10am
Rob's guest this week is Julian Glover. Julian started out as a classically trained stage actor who performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He achieved Hollywood fame in the 1980s when he acted in the Star Wars franchise, was the Bond villain to Roger Moore's 007 in For Your Eyes Only and starred in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Harrison Ford. His credits range from guest appearances in Doctor Who to providing the voice of the giant spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. More recently he has portrayed Grand Maester Pycelle in the hugely popular Game of Thrones. Julian will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Rob places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Baroque with a movement from Bach's mighty Mass in B minor. The recycling of material was a common practice for Baroque composers - Bach's choral masterpiece is effectively a kind of 'greatest hits', compiled in the late 1740s from a number of earlier compositions, going back as far as a cantata from 1712.

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the master violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann. A thoroughly modern virtuoso - brilliant, intelligent and thoughtful in works such as Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No.1 and Britten's Concerto in D minor - Zimmermann is also responsive to the pathos of Mozart's Sonata in E minor, the autumnal strains of Brahms's Horn Trio and the Gallic elegance of Saint-Saëns's Third Concerto.

Mozart
Violin Sonata in E minor, K.304
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Alexander Lonquich, piano.

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Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    'Im Walde' (Romances and Ballades, Op.75 No.2)

    Choir: Leipzig Radio Choir. Conductor: Horst Neumann.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks, Op 4

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • BMG.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

    • Carl Czerny

      Variations on the aria, La Ricordanza, Op.23

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gloria in Excelsis Deo, BWV191

    Singer: Claron McFadden. Singer: Christoph Genz. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SDG.

  • Rodion Shchedrin

    XIII. Finale (Carmen Suite)

    Ensemble: Moscow Virtuosi. Conductor: Vladimir Spivakov.
    • MELODIYA.

  • William Byrd

    O salutaris hostia

    Choir: The Marian Consort. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Christian Hollander

    Dum transisset Sabbatum

    Choir: Marian Consort. Director: Rory McCleery.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Arthur Sullivan

      'If you go in you’re sure to win' (Iolanthe, Act II)

      Singer: Leonard Osborn. Singer: Eric Thornton. Singer: Martyn Green. Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Isidore Godfrey.
      • PEARL.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto No.21 in C major (2nd mvt)

      Performer: Anda Géza. Orchestra: Camerata Salzburg.
      • DG.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE NO.3

    • anon.

      Have you seen the white lily grow

      Performer: Desmond Dupré. Singer: Alfred Deller.
      • VANGUARD CLASSICS.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE NO.4

    • Robert Johnson

      Have you seen the bright lily grow

      Performer: Julien Behr. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Music in Time: Baroque

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Sanctus & Benedictus (Mass in B minor, BWV232)

      Performer: Marc Hantaï. Singer: Makoto Sakurada. Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
      • ALIA VOX.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Octet

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Sonata for Piano and Violin in E minor, K.304

      Performer: Alexander Lonquich. Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann.
      • EMI.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Cypresses, Nos 10, 11 & 12

    Ensemble: Stamicovo kvarteto.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No.3 in E flat major, 'Rhenish', Op.97

    Orchestra: Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ARTE NOVA.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Warlock
Capriol Suite: Mattachins
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
DECCA
Ìý
Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
CHANDOS

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  • Tue 27 Oct 2015 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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