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Monday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Rondos; Wagner: Siegfried's Funeral March (Gotterdammerung); Vladimir Horowitz (piano) in Liszt's Wedding March and Variations and Vallee d'Obermann.

9am
My favourite... rondos. Rob shares his favourite rondos, a musical form which is characterised by a recurring theme, with examples ranging from Beethoven's madcap Rage Over A Lost Penny and Saint-Saëns's show-stopping Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso to the more reflective Rondo in A minor, K.511 by Mozart and evergreen examples by Schubert and Dvorak. The line-up features performances by Mitsuko Uchida, Paul Tortelier, Gidon Kremer, Valentina Lisitsa and Jascha Heifetz.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am
Rob's guest is the thriller writer Lee Child. Best known as the creator of the ex-military drifter, Jack Reacher, Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. His books consistently make number one in the hardback and paperback bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic and are translated into forty languages. He recently won the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction. Lee will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Hildegard of Bingen, Delibes and Beethoven, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob features a piece from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today, Rob focuses on Siegfried's Funeral March from Wagner's opera, Götterdämmerung, an expression of German nationhood rooted in myth and legend.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is Vladimir Horowitz, a pianist who could make a piano sound like an orchestra. Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned pianist, sharing recordings including his performance of Chopin's Funeral March Sonata, Fauré's crystalline and plangent Nocturne No.13, Liszt's foreboding portrayal of Oberman's Valley from his Années de Pélèrinage, and his virtuosic treatment of melodies from Bizet's Carmen.

Liszt
Wedding March and Variations from Mendelssohn's 'A Midsummer Night's Dream'
Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

Liszt
Vallée d'Obermann (Années de Pélèrinage: Première année: Suisse)
Vladimir Horowitz (piano).

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Music Played

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

    • Frédéric Chopin

      Study in C minor, Op 10 No 12, 'Revolutionary'

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Silent Woods, Op.68 no.5

    Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • WARNER.

  • MY FAVOURITE...RONDOS

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Rondo a capriccio in G major, Op.129 ‘Rage Over a Lost Penny’

      Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.
      • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata No 5, BWV 529 arr for chamber ensemble

    Music Arranger: Richard Stone. Ensemble: Tempesta di Mare.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.
    • HYPERION.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to Le Nozze di Figaro

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
    • DG.

  • LEE CHILD'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Giacomo Puccini

      Nessun dorma (Turandot)

      Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Choir: Wandsworth School Boys’ Choir. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
      • DECCA.

  • LEE CHILD'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      I. Babi Yar. Adagio (Symphony No.13)

      Singer: Vitaly Gromadsky. Choir: State Academic Choir. Choir: Yurlov Russian Choir. Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
      • RUSSIAN DISC.

  • Nicholas Lanier

    Symphonia in G major

    Ensemble: Fine Arts Brass Ensemble.
    • Music from the English Courts.
    • Nimbus.
    • 31.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Richard Wagner

      Siegfried's Funeral March (Götterdämmerung)

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
      • EMI.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg suite (Op.40) - 2nd mvt; Sarabande

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • HANSSLER CLASSIC.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

    • Franz Liszt

      Wedding March and variations from Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

    • Franz Liszt

      Vallee d’Obermann (Annees de Pelerinage, Book 1: Suisse)

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon and Gigue

    Ensemble: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No.5, D485

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

Heard on Screen

Answer: The Shawshank Redemption

The music played:

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Letter Duet: 'Sull’aria che soave zeffiretto' (Le Nozze di Figaro) 
Edith Mathis (soprano) 
Gundula Janowitz (soprano) 
Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin 
Karl Bohm (conductor) 
DG

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    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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