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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Rondos; Music in Time: Offenbach: Orpheus in the Underworld; Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, featured in Schumann's Dichterliebe.

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-SaΓ«ns'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: identify a piece of music played backwards.

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today the focus is on Parisian light opera and in particular Jacques Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld.

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.

Schumann
Dichterliebe, Op.48
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Vladimir Horowitz (piano).

3 hours

Last on

Thu 16 Jun 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    The Creatures of Prometheus, Op 43 (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Armonia Atenea. Conductor: George Petrou.
    • DECCA.
  • My favourite... Rondos

    • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

      Introduction & Rondo Capriccioso, Op.28

      Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Steinberg.
      • RCA.
  • Hubert Parry

    Lord, let me know mine end (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fantasia in G minor, Op.77

    Performer: Hans Richter-Haaser.
  • Francesca Caccini

    La liberazione di Ruggiero (excerpts)

    Ensemble: Toronto Consort.
    • MARQUIS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata for flute, viola & harp

    Ensemble: Boston Symphony Chamber Players.
    • DG ELOQUENCE.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Galop (Geneviève de Brabant)

    Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.
    • TELARC.
  • Lee Child's Choice No. 1

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      IV. Allegro (Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92)

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal DorΓ‘ti.
      • MERCURY.
  • Lee Child's Choice No. 2

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Bagatelle in A minor, WoO 59, 'FΓΌr Elise'

      Performer: Steven Osborne.
      • Beethoven: Bagatelles: Steven Osborne.
      • Hyperion.
      • 30.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Clarinet Concerto in A major K.622 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Thea King. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart; Clarinet Quintet in A major, Jeffrey Tate and the ECO with Thea King.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Jacques Offenbach

      Overture to Orpheus in the Underworld

      Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
      • TESTAMENT.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in D minor, Op 6 No 10

    Ensemble: Handel and Haydn Society. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'OISEAU-LYRE.
  • Artist of the Week: Vladimir Horowitz

    • Robert Schumann

      Dichterliebe, Op.48

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
      • SONY.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Vers la flamme

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Concerto, K.314

    Performer: Lothar Koch. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Offenbach
Infernal Galop (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra
Johannes Wildner (conductor)
NAXOS

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Jun 2016 09:00

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