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Monday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Sonatinas; Victoria's Missa O quam gloriosum; Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo, featured in Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 4.

9am
My favourite...sonatinas. Throughout the week Rob showcases a range of 'small sonatas' by composers including CPE Bach, Busoni and Ravel. Sonatinas are usually lighter in feel and less demanding than a full sonata, but it's still possible to pack plenty into these smaller forms. Expect flair, technical wizardry, whimsy and more besides.

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 veteran correspondent and author Kate Adie. Kate became a familiar face on our televisions as the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's chief news correspondent, reporting from war zones around the world and covering major events including the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Rwandan genocide and the Gulf War. She went on to write a number of books including Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War and her autobiography The Kindness of Strangers. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4. Kate talks about her career and shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Ethel Smyth and Carl Michael Bellman, and Smetana's Ma Vlast, which she heard whilst reporting on the 'Velvet Revolution' in Prague.

10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time as he takes a trip back to the Renaissance period to hear Victoria's Missa O quam gloriosum, published in 1583. Based on Victoria's own joyful motet of 1572, the mass balances great simplicity with a marvellously controlled religious fervour.

11am
In the week leading up to the start of the Proms Rob's featured artist is the 'First Night' conductor Sakari Oramo. Oramo is Chief Conductor of both the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra and the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. After a decade as Chief Conductor of the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra, he currently serves as their Honorary Conductor. Rob shares Oramo's interpretations of works by composers including Rachmaninov, Lindberg and Sibelius.

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No.4
Nikolai Lugansky (piano)
City of Birmingham Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

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Mon 11 Jul 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: SAKARI ORAMO

    • Edward Elgar

      Variation 2: H.D.S-P. (Enigma Variations)

      Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
      • CBSO.

  • MY FAVOURITE...SONATINAS

    • Ferruccio Busoni

      Sonatina No.6, 'Kammerfantasie Super Carmen'

      Performer: Geoffrey Tozer.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    PrΓ©lude from NaΓ―s: Overture; Musette tendre; Rigaudons I/II

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Introduction & Polka (The Bolt, Op.27a)

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Vedernikov.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Charles Lecocq

    Overture (La fille de Madame Angot)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Songs my mother taught me, Op.55 no.4

    Music Arranger: Heinrich GrΓΌnfeld. Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.
    • Alisa Weilerstein: Dvorak.
    • Decca.
    • 7.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    March past of the kitchen utensils (The Wasps)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • EMI.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata no.3 in C major

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

  • KATE ADIE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

      Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

      Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
      • Kate Royal: Midsummer Night.
      • EMI.
      • 5.

  • KATE ADIE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Arthur Sullivan

      The Yeomen of the Guard (conclusion of Act II)

      Singer: Margaret Eaves. Singer: Elizabeth Harwood. Singer: Ann Hood. Singer: Gillian Knight. Singer: Philip Potter. Singer: Kenneth Sandford. Singer: John Reed. Singer: Donald Adams. Choir: D'Oyly Carte Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
      • DECCA.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • TomΓ‘s Luis de Victoria

      Missa 'O quam gloriosum'

      Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
      • HYPERION.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in D major, Hob.XVI:51

    Performer: Alain Planès.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: SAKARI ORAMO

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Piano Concerto No.4 in G minor

      Performer: Nikolai Lugansky. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
      • WARNER.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D minor for two oboes and bassoon

    Performer: Luise Baumgartl. Performer: Martin Stadler. Performer: Marita Schaar. Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt. Director: Michael Schneider.
    • CPO.

  • Edvard Grieg

    String Quartet No.2 in F major, β€˜Unfinished’

    Performer: Alexander Tchernov. Performer: Irina Popova. Performer: Igor Bogouslavski. Performer: Alexander Rudin.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

Mystery Person

Answer: Gioachino Rossini

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