Friday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Sonatinas; Music in Time: Telemann's Overture Suite; Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo, featured in Grieg's Piano Concerto.
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 place.
10am
Rob's guest is the veteran correspondent and author Kate Adie. Kate became a familiar face on our televisions as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ'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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time with Telemann's Overture Suite in E major. The suite, an ordered set of instrumental pieces, was extremely popular in the Baroque period, and the later addition of an overture to make an "overture suite" became particularly fashionable in Germany, with Telemann having claimed to have written around two hundred examples of this form.
11am
To mark the start of the Proms tonight, Rob shares a recording by the conductor who will open proceedings, Sakari Oramo. Oramo teams up with his 'First Night' orchestra, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony, in an acclaimed recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto.
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16
Javier Perianes (piano)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).
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Edvard Grieg
Sommerfugl (Lyric Pieces, Op.43 No.1)
Performer: Javier Perianes. -
Felix Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture, Op.101
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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JoaquÃn Rodrigo
En los trigales [ In the Wheat Fields ]
Performer: Julian Bream.- INTENSE MEDIA.
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My favourite... sonatinas
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Keyboard Sonatina in E major, Wq.100
Performer: Miklós Spányi. Ensemble: Concerto Armonico. Conductor: Péter Szűts.- BIS.
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
Die stille Stadt
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.- LINN.
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Benjamin Britten
Overture to The Beggar's Opera, Op.43
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.- CHANDOS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dir, Seele des Weltalls, K.429
Singer: Werner Krenn. Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.- DECCA.
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Franz Schubert
Divertissement sur des motifs originaux francais in E minor, D823
Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Performer: Benjamin Britten.- DECCA.
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Kate Adie's Choice No. 1
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Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor: 2nd mvt
Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- DG.
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Rob's choice for Kate Adie
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Franz Berwald
Symphony No.3 in C major 'Sinfonie singuliere' (2nd movement)
Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Okko Kamu.- NAXOS.
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Maurice Ravel
Kaddisch
Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.- Erato.
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Music in Time: Baroque
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture Suite in E flat major for recorder and strings, TWV55:Es2
Performer: Carin van Heerden. Orchestra: Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. Director: Carin van Heerden.- CPO.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - 'Constanze, dich wiederzusehen'
Singer: Peter Schreier. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.- Berlin Classics.
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Thomas Tallis
O nata lux de lumine
Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.- Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
- Obsidian.
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Artist of the Week: Sakari Oramo
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Edvard Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16
Performer: Javier Perianes. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
The Presentation in the Temple (Mystery Sonata No 4)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Marcin ÅšwiÄ…tkiewicz. Performer: David Miller.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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John Foulds
3 Mantras for orchestra (Op.61b), no.2; Mantra II (of bliss)...
Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Choir: CBSO Youth Chorus. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.- John Foulds: Mirage/Three Mantras from Avatara: Oramo/CBSO.
- Warner.
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Edward Elgar
5 Partsongs... for male chorus (Op.45), no.4; It's oh to be a wild wind
Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Stephen Westrop. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Elgar: Choral Songs: London Symphony Chorus/Handley.
- Hyperion.
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Mystery Place
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- Fri 15 Jul 2016 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3