Thursday - Rob Cowan with Roxanna Panufnik
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Bach Arrangements; Music in Time: a recording by David Munrow; Artist of the Week: Pierre Monteux conducts Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 4.
9am
My Favourite... Bach Arrangements. A new feature in which Rob and Sarah reveal their favourite recordings of music, connected to a weekly theme. In the week of New Year New Music, Rob features his top arrangements of Bach - all of them made in the last hundred years, and which cast new light on the baroque master. Throughout the week he shares recreations of Bach by Myra Hess (Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring), Ottorino Respighi (Passcaglia and Fugue, BWV582), Robin Holloway (Gilded Goldbergs) and Webern (Ricercar from the Musical Offering).
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Throughout the week of New Year New Music, five leading composers of the current generation tell Rob about a piece of music that has influenced them, and share one of their own works. Rob talks live to Roxanna Panufnik, a composer whose commissions include works for Westminster Cathedral Choir, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ, Polish National Opera and English National Ballet. She enjoys tailoring her compositions to the skills of particular artists, for instance in her pieces for the violinist Tasmin Little and the oboist Douglas Boyd.
10.30am
Rob places Music in Time. Rob investigates the Renaissance period with the help of a recording by the musician and early music expert David Munrow. Munrow was a cutting edge figure in the world of early music who resurrected instruments from the period and recorded previously forgotten repertoire, including the dance, Pavane de Spaigne, from Michael Praetorius's 1612 collection Terpsichore.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is Pierre Monteux, a conductor who was at the cutting edge of new music in the early 20th century. He premiered works by composers who were the movers and shakers of the period, including Debussy, Stravinsky and Ravel. He also brought music to audiences in Paris, Amsterdam, San Francisco, Boston and London. Rob showcases recordings by Monteux ranging from Debussy's Images and Stravinsky's Petrushka to symphonies by Beethoven and Tchaikovsky.
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 4
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Pierre Monteux (conductor).
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Music Played
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Grigoras Dinicu
Hora staccato
Performer: Michael Rabin. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz. Orchestra: The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Felix Slatkin.- EMI.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio No.10 in A, Hob.XV:35
Performer: Jaap Schröder. Performer: Wouter Möller. Performer: Bob van Asperen. Ensemble: Trio Fontenay.- WARNER APEX.
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MY FAVOURITE...J.S.BACH ARRANGEMENTS
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ricercar a 6 (A Musical Offering BWV.1079)
Music Arranger: Anton Webern. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- Boulez conducts Webern: Berliner Philharmoniker.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Anton Webern
Entflieht auf leichten Kahnen, Op. 2
Choir: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Singers. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
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Franz Schubert
Seligkeit, D 433
Performer: Jörg Demus. Singer: Elly Ameling.- DEUTSCHE HARMONI MUNDI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Eugene Onegin (Waltz)
Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- EMI.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Hamburger Sonata in G major for flute and continuo, Wq 133
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Jonathan Manson.- EMI.
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Richard Wagner
Prelude to Act I (Tristan und Isolde)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- EMI.
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Roxanna Panufnik's Choice No. 1
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Traditional Romanian
Doina and Hora
Performer: Tcha Limberger. Performer: Janos Dani. Performer: Vilmos Csikòs. Performer: Gyula CsÃk. Director: Jordi Savall.- ALIAVOX.
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Roxanna Panufnik's Choice No. 2
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Roxanna Panufnik
All shall be well
Performer: Richard May. Choir: Exultate Singers. Conductor: David Ogden.- NAXOS.
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Frédéric Chopin
Waltz for piano (Op.70`3) in D flat major
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
- London.
- 13.
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MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE
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Michael Praetorius
Terpsichore (selected dances)
Composer: Pierre Francisque Caroubel. Ensemble: Early Music Consort of London. Director: David Munrow.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite No. 1 in D minor, BWV 812
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
- 10-15.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: PIERRE MONTEUX
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No 4 in F minor, Op 36
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.- RCA.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Sonata No.2 in D minor, Op.14
Performer: Gary Graffman.- SONY.
By Association
Answer: Debussy and Wagner
The music played:
Debussy
Golliwog’s Cakewalk (Children’s Corner)
Pascal Roge (piano)
DECCA
Broadcast
- Thu 7 Jan 2016 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3
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