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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Tracy Chevalier

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Liszt Transcriptions of Schubert Songs; Music in Time: Glinka's Ivan Susanin; Artists of the Week: Concerto Koln. Sussmayr: Symphony in C.

9am
My favourite... Liszt transcriptions of Schubert songs. Liszt was an inveterate transcriber of other composers' music, partly because he needed material to supply the extraordinarily gruelling series of piano recitals he undertook during the 1840s. Schubert was among the composers Liszt turned to most frequently for this purpose, particularly with regard to his songs, which Liszt transformed into lovingly crafted piano miniatures. Rob shares a selection of his favourite Liszt transcriptions of Schubert songs throughout the week.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest is the author Tracy Chevalier. Tracy is best known for her historical novel Girl With a Pearl Earring, inspired by the painting of the same name by Johannes Vermeer. The book sold millions of copies around the world and was turned into a Hollywood film. Tracy's other novels include Burning Bright, Remarkable Creatures and The Last Runaway. Tracy will be talking about the way she researches and writes her novels, and revealing her favourite classical music, every day at 10am.

10:30
Rob places Music in Time as he heads back to the Romantic period to hear a landmark in the history of opera - Mikhail Glinka's Ivan Susanin, which marked the emergence of a Russian school of opera from out of the shadows cast by the Italian tradition.

11am
Rob's artists of the week are Concerto KΓΆln, one of the world's longest-established and most vibrant original-instrument ensembles. Founded in Cologne, Germany, in 1985, their core repertoire is Baroque, Pre-classical and Classical, but their interests extend into the Romantic period and even, on occasion, the 20th century. Throughout the week Rob showcases a selection of their finest recordings, ranging from JS Bach's Violin Concerto in E major to a Symphony by Anton Eberl and Henryk GΓ³recki's Harpsichord Concerto.

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Symphony in C major (Synfonia turchesa)
Concerto KΓΆln
Sarband.

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Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks (Pictures at an Exhibition)

    Music Arranger: Tomita. Performer: Tomita.
    • RCA.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.

  • MY FAVOURITE...LISZT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF SCHUBERT SONGS

    • Franz Schubert

      Ellens Gesang 3 'Ave Maria' D.839

      Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.
      • DECCA.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Capriccio No.1 in D major

    Performer: Alexander Van Wijnkoop. Ensemble: Camerata Bern. Director: Alexander Van Wijnkoop.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV.42 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats' (Sinfonia)

    Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • DHM.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Chaconne d'Amadis

    Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante. Conductor: Skip SempΓ©.
    • DHM.

  • Henry Purcell

    Music for a while (Oedipus)

    Singer: Alfred Deller. Performer: William Christie. Performer: Wieland Kuijken.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • TRACY CHEVALIER'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Franz Schubert

      II. Andantino (Sonata in A major, D.959)

      Performer: Paul Berkowitz.
      • MERIDIAN.

  • TRACY CHEVALIER'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Franz Schubert

      Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)

      Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: James van Demark. Ensemble: Cleveland Quartet.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Clara Schumann

    Six Lieder from Jucunde, Op.23; 3. Geheimes FlΓΌstern

    Performer: Hedayet Djeddikar. Singer: Dorothea Craxton.
    • Clara Schumann: Complete Songs.
    • Naxos.
    • 13.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar, conclusion of Act IV)

      Singer: Evgeny Nesterenko. Choir: USSR Bolshoi Theatre Chorus. Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Ermler.
      • MELODIYA.

  • Trad.

    John Dohertys March / Old John’s Jig

    Ensemble: Kieran Fahy and musicians.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: CONCERTO KΓ–LN

    • Franz Xaver ³§ΓΌ²υ²υ³Ύ²Ή²β°ω

      Symphony in C major, 'Sinfonia turchesca'

      Ensemble: Concerto KΓΆln. Ensemble: Sarband. Director: Werner Ehrhardt. Director: Vladimir Ivanoff.
      • ARCHIV.

  • TomΓ‘s Luis de Victoria

    Lamed (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 7.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44

    Orchestra: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • MELODIYA.

Mystery Person

Answer: Alfred Deller

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  • Thu 17 Mar 2016 09:00
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