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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Impromptus; Music in Time: Tomas Luis de Victoria; Proms Artist of the Day: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ NOW, featured performing Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique.

9:00am
My Favourite... Impromptus. This week Rob shares a selection of his favourite impromptus, works that are based on improvisation and impulse. The line-up includes Schubert's Impromptu in G flat, performed by Alfred Brendel, Scriabin's Impromptu Op.14 No.1 with Klara Min and Bennett's Five Impromptus for guitar featuring Craig Ogden.

9:30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am
Rob's guest this week is the BAFTA award winning actress and writer Jessica Hynes. Jessica was one of the creators and stars of the popular British sitcom Spaced, and is well known for her other comic roles including Cheryl in The Royle Family and Siobhan in the Olympics backroom comedy Twenty Twelve, and the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ parody W1A. Jessica will be talking about her comedy writing and her acting roles, and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by John Ireland, Marcel Tournier and Will Todd, every day at 10am.

10:30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time, turning the spotlight on the Renaissance era as he examines how the publication of polyphonic music helped to advance the career and fame of TomΓ΅s Luis de Victoria, spreading his name, and his glorious music, beyond his native Spain.

10:45am
Rob features the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, who will be playing music by BartΓ³k, Malcolm Hayes and DvorΓ΅k in tonight's Prom. This morning Rob shares their interpretation of Stravinsky's Scherzo Fantastique, the sort of narrative repertoire that the orchestra excels in. Conductor Thierry Fischer draws kaleidoscopic colours from Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ NOW in this late-Romantic showpiece.

Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Circus Polka

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael KubelΓ­k.
    • Rafael Kubelik: Rare Recordings 1963 - 1974.
    • DG.
    • 7.

  • MY FAVOURITE...IMPROMPTUS

    • Alexander Scriabin

      Impromptu in B major, Op.14 No.1

      Performer: Klara Min.
      • STEINWAY & SONS.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Escales

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA LIVING STEREO.

  • Henry Purcell

    Distressed Innocence, Z.577: Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Die verschwiegene Nachtigall

    Performer: Charles Spencer. Singer: Chen Reiss.
    • ONYX.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 9

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • L’OISEAU LYRE.
    • 17.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo Capriccioso, Op.62

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • RCA.

  • JESSICA HYNES' CHOICE NO.1

    • John Adams

      El Nino: La Anunciacion; For with God no thing shall be impossible

      Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
      • NONESUCH.

  • JESSICA HYNES' CHOICE NO.2

    • Will Todd

      Softly

      Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
      • SIGNUM.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Barcarolle in D flat major, Op 22 No 1

    Performer: Stephen Coombs.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • TomΓ΅s Luis de Victoria

      Vadam et circuibo civitatem

      Choir: Stile Antico.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • John Dowland

    The Shoemaker's Wife

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Dowland: Musicke for the Lute.
    • Astree.
    • 1.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE DAY:Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Scherzo Fantastique

      Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
      • SIGNUM.

Heard on Screen

Answer: The Living Daylights (James Bond)

The music played:

Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme: Variation VII e coda
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI

Broadcast

  • Thu 11 Aug 2016 09:00
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