Monday - Rob Cowan with Lee Hall
With Rob Cowan. My Favourite French Operetta; Beethoven: Piano Sonata (Pathetique); Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, featured conducting Glazunov's Symphony No 5.
9am
My favourite... French operetta. Rob taps into his lighter musical side as he selects highlights from five of his favourite operettas. Rob chooses music by the grandfather of operetta, Jacques Offenbach, as well as works by composers including André Messager and Charles Lecocq.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Rob's guest is the playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall. Lee's Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film Billy Elliot went on to become a Tony and Olivier Award-winning stage musical. He has also written plays including the critically acclaimed The Pitmen Painters, and has adapted works ranging from Shakespeare in Love to Brecht's Mother Courage and Alan Warner's The Sopranos. Lee will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob, every day at 10am.
10:30
Rob features the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review
Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op.13 'Pathétique'
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Rozhdestvensky made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre when he was just twenty years old, conducting Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. He went on to become chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, as well as the conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra before leaving Soviet Russia in the 1970s for Stockholm and then London. There he took the role of chief conductor of the 鶹Լ Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob plays a selection of Rozhdestvensky's recordings, covering a wide range of Romantic repertoire from Glazunov to Prokofiev.
Glazunov
Symphony No.5 in B flat major Op.55 'The Heroic'
USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor).
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
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Sergey Prokofiev
Mercutio (Romeo and Juliet)
Orchestra: Bolshoi Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- MELODIYA.
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Henry Purcell
Timon of Athens (Overture)
Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- DG.
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Jean Sibelius
Impromptu in B minor Op.5 no. 5
Performer: Folke Gräsbeck.- BIS.
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MY FAVOURITE...FRENCH OPERETTA
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André Messager
Rossignol (Monsieur Beaucaire)
Singer: Florence Raynal. Orchestra: Light Symphony Orchestra of Monte Carlo. Conductor: Paul Bonneau.- DECCA.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Trio in E flat major, H.15.10
Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.- Phillips.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No 5 in G major for keyboard, BWV 829
Performer: Sir András Schiff.- ECM.
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anon.
Ein pauer gab seim son ein weib (Das Liederbuch des Arnt von Aich)
Choir: Singer Pur.- OEHMS.
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LEE HALL'S CHOICE NO.1
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Trad.
Come ye not from Newcastle
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Frederick Stone.- DECCA.
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LEE HALL'S CHOICE NO.2
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Trad.
The Keel Row
Music Arranger: William Gillies Whittaker. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Phyllis Spurr.- NAXOS.
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LEE HALL'S CHOICE NO.3
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Vincenzo Bellini
Casta diva (Norma)
Singer: Maria Callas. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.- EMI.
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LEE HALL'S CHOICE NO.4
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Johann Sebastian Bach
French suite no.5 in G major BWV.816 (Sarabande)
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- HYPERION.
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Béla Bartók
Swineherd's Dance (Hungarian Sketches)
Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis.- HUNGAROTON.
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THE BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION FROM LAST SATURDAY'S RECORD REVIEW
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 13, 'Pathétique'
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- EMI.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in B flat major Op.3`1
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Performer: Christian Moreaux. Performer: Alice Piérot. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Erato.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
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Alexander Glazunov
Symphony No.5 in B flat major Op.55 ‘The Heroic’
Orchestra: State Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture of the USSR. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- OLYMPIA.
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Antonín Dvořák
Quis est homo, qui non fleret (Stabat Mater)
Singer: Stefania Woytowicz. Singer: Věra Soukupová. Singer: Ivo Žídek. Singer: Kim Borg. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Václav Smetáček.- SUPRAPHON.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Barcarolle in F major, Op 108
Performer: Cristina Ortiz. Ensemble: Fine Arts Quartet.- NAXOS.
Mapping the Music
Answer: The River Rhine
The music played:
Wagner
Prelude to Das Rheingold
Vienna Philharmonic
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA
Broadcast
- Mon 21 Mar 2016 09:00鶹Լ Radio 3