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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Sonatinas; Music in Time: Beethoven's Diabelli Variations; Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo, featured in Bloch's Suite symphonique.

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: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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: Classical
Rob places Music in Time with Beethoven's Diabelli Variations. The culmination of the Classical preoccupation with variation form, the 'Diabellis' demonstrate Beethoven's rigorous approach, while combining a sense of mischief with the work's technical challenges.

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.

Bloch
Suite Symphonique
MalmΓΆ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    I'm seventeen come Sunday

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • The music of Percy Grainger: Monteverdi Choir/John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
    • 1.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 4 violins in D major, Op.3 No.1

    Ensemble: Ensemble 415. Director: Chiara Banchini.
    • ALPHA.

  • MY FAVOURITE...SONATINAS

    • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

      Sonatina

      Performer: Andreas Bach.
      • HANSSLER CLASSIC.

  • Josef Fiala

    Concerto in C major for cor anglais

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Potsdam Chamber Academy. Director: Albrecht Mayer.
    • DG.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Nico Muhly

    Honest Music (version for two violins)

    Performer: Angela Chun. Performer: Jennifer Chun.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in E flat major, BWV552 β€˜St Anne’

    Orchestrator: Schoenberg. Orchestrator: Arnold. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • CHANDOS.

  • KATE ADIE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Charles‐Marie Widor

      Toccata (Organ Symphony No.5)

      Performer: Simon Preston.
      • DECCA.

  • KATE ADIE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      'The Assault on Beautiful Gorky' (The Unforgettable Year 1919)

      Performer: Ellena Alekseyeva. Orchestra: The Moscow Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adriano.
      • NAXOS.

  • Duparc

    Romance de Mignon

    Singer: VΓ©ronique Gens. Performer: Susan Manoff.

  • Duparc

    Au pays se fait la guerre

    Singer: VΓ©ronique Gens. Performer: Susan Manoff.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Variations for piano on a Waltz by Diabelli in C major, Op.120 (excerpts)

      Performer: Hans Richter-Haaser.
      • EMI.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Fugue in C major BuxWV.174 'alla gigue'

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Buxtehude - The Complete Organ Works 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: SAKARI ORAMO

    • Ernest Bloch

      Suite Symphonique

      Orchestra: MalmΓΆ SymfoniOrkester. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
      • BIS.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonatina in C minor for mandolin and keyboard

    Performer: Erhard Fietz. Performer: Amadeus Webersinke.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in B flat major, Wq171

    Performer: Valentin Radutiu. Orchestra: MΓΌnchener Kammerorchester. Conductor: Stephan Frucht. Conductor: Stephan Frucht.
    • HANNSLER CLASSIC.

By Association

Answer: J.S. Bach and Schoenberg

The music played:

Bach, J.S.Β (orch. Schoenberg)β€―
Fugue in E flat major, BWV552b β€˜St Anne’ 
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonicβ€―
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)β€―
CHANDOS

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