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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Sonatinas; Music in Time: Polystylism; Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo, featured in Sibelius's Tapiola.

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 our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

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: Modern
Rob places Music in Time. Polystylism was probably created by Russian composer Alfred Schnittke who once said "The goal of my life is to unify serious music and light music, even if I break my neck in doing so". The term refers to the multiple uses of styles and themes in music, as demonstrated by the composer Osvaldo Golijov in his Wa Habibi, which ranges further and wider than most.

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.

Sibelius
Tapiola Op.112
City of Birmingham Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Kenneth Leighton

    I. Allegro (Sonatina No.2)

    Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Charles Gounod

    Overture to Cinq-Mars

    Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ulf Schirmer.
    • EDICIONES SINGULARES.

  • MY FAVOURITE...SONATINAS

    • Franz Schubert

      Sonatina for violin & piano in D major, D384

      Performer: Jean‐Guihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    'Revenge, Timotheus cries' (Alexander's Feast)

    Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • HYPERION.

  • Jean FranΓ§aix

    L'heure du berger

    Performer: Susan Tomes. Ensemble: Gaudier Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Eivind Groven

    Margjit Hjukse, Op.48

    Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Overture to La forza del destino

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS.

  • KATE ADIE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Carl Michael Bellman

      Fjariln vingad syns pa Haga

      Singer: Mimmi Fulmer. Performer: Bruce Bengtson.
      • CENTAUR.

  • KATE ADIE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      English Folk Song Suite

      Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
      • DECCA.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Love's Labour's Lost Op.28b (3 Soliloquies)

    Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.
    • Introit: The Music of Gerald Finzi.
    • Decca.
    • 4-6.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: MODERN

    • Osvaldo Golijov

      Wa Habibi [My Love]

      Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Ensemble: The Andalucian Dogs.
      • DG.

  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Concerto No.9 in E (Les Gouts-Reunis ou Nouveaux Concerts)

    Performer: Thomas Brandis. Performer: Chiara Banchini. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Marie-Lise Schüpbach. Performer: Aurèle Nicolet. Performer: Christiane Nicolet. Performer: Josef Ulsamer. Performer: Laurenzius Strehl. Performer: Manfred Sax. Performer: Christiane Jaccottet.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Alonso Lobo

    Jerusalem, Jerusalem, convertere (Lamentations)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • Lobo: Lamentations / Missa Maria Magdalene.
    • Hyperion.
    • 17.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: SAKARI ORAMO

    • Jean Sibelius

      Tapiola, Op.112

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

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No.1 in D major, D82

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.

Recording Rewind

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CHANDOS

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