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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite British Light Music; James MacMillan: The Confession of Isobel Gowdie; Artist of the Week: Zoltan Kocsis directing Bartok: Dance Suite.

9am
My favourite... British light music. Throughout the week Rob shares some of his favourite light music by British composers. He features musical treats including Ronald Binge's classic Elizabethan Serenade, Geoffrey Toye's waltz The Haunted Ballroom, Charles Ancliffe's Nights of Gladness and Elgar's Chanson de Matin, plus there's a trip to Knightsbridge with the march from Eric Coates's London Suite.

9.30am
Take part in our daily music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest this week, sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at 10am, is the actress Jane Lapotaire. Jane first achieved stardom with her Tony-award winning portrayal of the French songstress Γ‰dith Piaf. She is known for taking on great tragic roles and throughout her career has played leading ladies ranging from Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth to Joan of Arc, Marie Curie and opera star Maria Callas. Throughout the week Jane talks about her favourite acting parts, remembers working alongside Laurence Olivier as a young actress and explains how classical music helped her to recover from a devastating brain injury.

10.30am
Rob places Music in Time with James MacMillan's The Confession of Isobel Gowdie - a piece of storytelling from 1990 that reacted against increasingly abstract Modern music.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the renowned pianist, conductor, composer, and founding member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis. Throughout the week Rob features some of Kocsis's top records, including his Gramophone Instrumental Award winning interpretation of Debussy's Images, a recording of him as soloist in Mozart's popular Piano Concerto No. 23, where he's joined by the Budapest Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and as conductor in a pair of works by his compatriot, Bartok (Dance Suite and Rhapsody No. 2), as well as in solo piano music by Wagner and Rachmaninov.

Bartok
Dance Suite
Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra
ZoltΓ‘n Kocsis (conductor).

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Wed 20 Jan 2016 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Swineherd's Dance (Hungarian Sketches)

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: ZoltΓ‘n Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • CΓ©cile Chaminade

    Carnival Waltz, Op.73

    Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Peter Jablonski.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • My favourite... British light music

    • Edward Elgar

      Chanson de matin

      Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
      • TELDEC.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D major, Op 33 No 6

    Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Knut Nystedt

    Peace I leave with you, Op 43 No 2

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata XXI Γ  4

    Performer: Bojan ČičiΔ‡. Performer: Stephen Pedder. Performer: Julia Kuhn. Performer: William Carter. Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations: Variation 30 (Quodlibet) & Aria da capo

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • WARNER.

  • Jane Lapotaire's Choice No. 1

    • Giacomo Puccini

      Chi il bel sogno di Doretta (La rondine)

      Performer: Ian Watson. Singer: RenΓ©e Fleming. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.

  • Jane Lapotaire's Choice No. 2

    • Arvo PΓ€rt

      Spiegel im Spiegel

      Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
      • EMI.

  • Jane Lapotaire's Choice No. 3

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      'Ave Maria' (Otello, Act IV)

      Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Orchestre de la SociΓ©tΓ© des Concerts du Conservatoire. Conductor: Nicola Rescigno.
      • EMI.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia Γ  3 No 3 in G minor

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Music in Time: Modern

    • Sir James MacMillan

      The Confession of Isobel Gowdie

      Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo VΓ€nskΓ€.
      • BIS.

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    I skogen (Sanger och visor)

    Singer: Camilla Tilling. Performer: Paul Rivinius.
    • BIS.

  • Artist of the Week: Zoltan Kocsis

    • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

      Dance Suite

      Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: ZoltΓ‘n Kocsis.
      • HUNGAROTON.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Missa brevis in G minor, BWV235

  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Rhapsody No.2 for violin and orchestra

    Performer: Barnabas Kelemen. Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: ZoltΓ‘n Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.

Mystery Person

Answer: Johann Gottlieb Goldberg

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  • Wed 20 Jan 2016 09:00
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