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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Liz Lochhead

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Old-School Violinists; Bach: Cantata, BWV212; Artist of the Week: Antal Dorati, featured conducting Koechlin's Les Bandar-Log, Op 176.

9am
My favourite... old-school violinists. Throughout the week Rob shares recordings by some of his favourite violinists. The line-up includes Jascha Heifetz, Ivry Gitlis, Christian Ferras, Toscha Seidel and Philippe Hirschhorn, in music by Richard Strauss, Lili Boulanger, Paganini, Tartini, Wagner and Saint-SaΓ«ns.

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, in the run-up to Radio 3's Folk Connections weekend, is the Scots Makar - the National Poet for Scotland - Liz Lochhead. Liz's poetry collections include Dreaming Frankenstein, True Confessions and New Cliches, Bagpipe Muzak and The Colour of Black and White: Poems 1984-2003. Liz is also a successful dramatist known for her historical play Mary Queen of Scots Got Her Head Chopped Off, her award-winning interpretation of the story of Medea, and her critically acclaimed translation of Molière's Tartuffe. She has been announced as the 2016 recipient of the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Every day at 10am Liz will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including music by Gluck, Sibelius and Korngold, plus Robert Burns' song Green Grow the Rashes.

10.30am
Rob places Music in Time as he travels back to the Baroque period with Bach's Cantata BWV 212, 'We have a new Lord of the Manor', popularly known as the Peasant Cantata. Bach wrote this cantata as part of the celebrations to mark the acquisition of a new estate near Leipzig by one Carl Henrich von Dieskau, an inspector of land, alcohol and income taxes. Bach set a text in Saxon dialogue by his regular collaborator Picander and drew on several Saxon folk tunes to create this affectionate and humorous portrayal of the Saxon peasantry.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the acclaimed Hungarian-American conductor Antal DorΓ‘ti, whose early experience in opera houses in Budapest, MΓΌnster, Dresden and Monte Carlo led to a dazzling international career at the helm of a string of top orchestras in the USA and Britain. His vast and varied recording legacy is witness to his performing style, which combined dramatic intensity, rhythmic vigour and an acute ear for colour. Throughout the week Rob showcases a selection of DorΓ‘ti's finest interpretations of works including Tchaikovsky's Suite No. 3 in G, Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor, BartΓ³k's Dance Suite, Koechlin's Les Bandar-Log and Beethoven's Fifth Symphony.

Koechlin
Les Bandar-Log, Op. 176
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Antal DorΓ‘ti, conductor.

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Thu 28 Jan 2016 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Maurice Ravel

    I. Modere: tres franc (Valses nobles et sentimentales)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.

  • MY FAVOURITE... OLD-SCHOOL VIOLINISTS

    • Giuseppe Tartini

      Sonata in G minor, 'Devil's Trill'

      Performer: Christian Ferras. Performer: Pierre Barbizet.
      • MELO CLASSIC.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Marriage Feast and Lamentable End of King Dodon (Le Coq d’Or)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal DorΓ‘ti.
    • MERCURY.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Dance of the Comedians (The Bartered Bride)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • MERCURY.

  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    Moses fantaisie after Rossini

    Performer: JΓ‘nos Starker. Performer: Shigeo Neriki.
    • DENON.

  • LIZ LOCHHEAD'S CHOICE NO. 1

    • Maurice Ravel

      Pavane pour une infante defunte

      Performer: Anna Vinnitskaya.
      • ±·΄‘Ï³Υ·‘.

  • LIZ LOCHHEAD'S CHOICE NO. 2

    • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      III. Finale (Violin Concerto)

      Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
      • DECCA.

  • Marie JaΓ«ll

    La legend des ours; Epilogue

    Performer: Chantal Santon. Orchestra: Brussels Philharmonic. Conductor: HervΓ© Niquet.

  • Music in Time: Baroque

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      'Mer Hahn en neue Oberkeet', BWV212, 'Peasant Cantata'

      Singer: Angela Maria Blasi. Singer: Yvonne Kenny. Singer: Kurt Equiluz. Singer: Robert Holl. Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
      • TELDEC.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ANTAL DORÁTI

    • Charles Koechlin

      Les Bandar-Log, a symphonic poem, Op.176

      Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal DorΓ‘ti.
      • EMI.

  • Guillaume Dufay

    Mass for Saint Anthony Abbot, Agnus Dei

    Conductor: Andrew Kirkman. Choir: Binchois Consort.
    • Dufay: Mass for St Anthony Abbot, Binchois: Motets: The Binchois Consort, Kirkma.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet in B flat, Op 18

    Performer: Yehonatan Berick, Arnaud Sussmann, violins. Performer: Yura Lee, Paul Neubauer, violas.

Mystery Person

Answer: Janos Starker

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