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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Hall

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite French Operetta; Music in Time: CPE Bach: Symphony in D; Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, featured conducting Nielsen's Aladdin.

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 Andr茅 Messager and Charles Lecocq.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

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 places Music in Time. The focus is on the 'Sturm und Drang' (storm and stress) period of Classical music. The heightened expression and dramatic contrast in CPE Bach's Symphony in D major exemplifies this movement, and highlights the transition from the Baroque.

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 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob plays a selection of Rozhdestvensky's recordings, covering a wide range of Romantic repertoire from Glazunov to Prokofiev.

Nielsen
Aladdin Op.34
Danish National Radio Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor).

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Wed 23 Mar 2016 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Contredanse en rondeau (Les Bor茅ades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata for Violin and Piano in G minor

    Performer: Shlomo Mintz. Performer: Yefim Bronfman.
    • DG.

  • MY FAVOURITE...FRENCH OPERETTA

    • Louis Varney

      Chanson de Bridaine (Les mousquetaires au couvent)

      Singer: Jacques Loreau. Ensemble: Grand Symphony Orchestra & Chorus. Conductor: J茅sus Etcheverry.
      • DECCA.

  • Andr茅 Messager

    Solo de concours for clarinet and piano

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Julien Quentin.
    • Music for Clarinet and Piano.
    • EMI.
    • 4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Orchestral Suite in D major HWV.341

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Purcell, Handel: Sound the Trumpet: Alison Balsom, Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sonata for clarinet and bassoon

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Ursula Leveaux.
    • Poulenc: Complete Chamber Music: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
    • 13.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Voices of Spring, Op 410

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • SONY.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    'Black key' Study in G flat major (12 Studies Op.10)

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Chopin: Etudes Op.10 & Op.25: Maurizio Pollini.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 5.

  • Henry Purcell

    Moonlight on the Green - Scotch Tune

    Composer: James Oswald. Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia.

  • LEE HALL'S CHOICE No. 1

    • Olivier Messiaen

      Louange 脿 l'脡ternit茅 de J茅sus (Quartet for the End of Time)

      Performer: Jian Wang. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
      • DG.

  • LEE HALL'S CHOICE No. 2

    • Franz Schubert

      Im Abendrot

      Performer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Dalton Baldwin.

  • Armas J盲rnefelt

    Sostenuto and Allegro vivace from Serenade (1893)

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jaakko Kuusisto.
    • BIS.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL

    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Symphony in D major Wq.183`1

      Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Rebecca Miller.
      • SIGNUM.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Op 43 (selection)

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Panis Angelicus (Mass, Op 12)

    Performer: Cinzia Maurizio. Performer: Luigi Piovano. Performer: Daniele Rossi. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Sospiri: Cecilia Bartoli.
    • Decca.
    • 12.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri, Op.70

    Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Elgar: The Music Makers: Short Pieces: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra / Davis.
    • Teldec.
    • 6.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY

    • Carl Nielsen

      Aladdin: Act III (excerpts)

      Ensemble: Danish National Radio Orchestra & Chamber Choir. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.

  • Thomas Morley

    The Earl of Essex Galliard 脿 6

    Singer: Robert Tear. Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Fantasies, Ayres and Dances: The Julian Bream Consort.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 18.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 3 in E flat major

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Flight of the Bumblebee transc for piano

    Performer: Olga Kern.
    • Rachmaninov: Transcriptions/variations: Olga Kern.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 13.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Chopin
Etude in G flat major, Op.10 No.5 鈥楤lack Keys鈥�
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG

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  • Wed 23 Mar 2016 09:00
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