Monday - Rob Cowan with Samantha Bond
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Gypsy-Style Showpieces; Music in Time: Classical; Artists of the Week: Staatskapelle Dresden, featured performing Weber's Oberon Overture.
9am
My favourite... Gypsy-style showpieces
Gypsy music has inspired generations of composers to write some of their fieriest and most appealing lighter, and sometimes not-so-light, music. Rob's selection ranges from authentic gypsy tunes played by the great Romanian violinist Grigoras Dinucu (and an Enescu Rhapsody that was inspired by them) to Brahms Zigeunerlieder and Strauss's effervescent Gypsy Baron overture.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: which location is being depicted in this piece of music?
10am
Rob's guest is the celebrated actress Samantha Bond, one of our most versatile actresses. Born into an acting family, her great uncle was a music hall performer and her father was in The Onedin Line, Samantha is famous for her appearances as Lady Rosalind Painswick in the worldwide hit Downton Abbey and the role of Auntie Angela in the comedy series Outnumbered. Her notable stage and screen appearances also include Juliet in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet with Kenneth Branagh, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels with Robert Lindsay, and Miss Moneypenny to Pierce Brosnan's James Bond. Through the week, Samantha shares her favourite pieces of classical music with Rob.
10:30am
Music in Time: Classical
Rob places Music in Time. He focuses on the fashion during the Classical period for mechanical curiosities: automata such as musical clocks, and a strange instrument invented by Benjamin Franklin and featured by Mozart in his Quintet for Flute, Oboe, Violin, Cello - and Glass Harmonica.
11am
Artist of the Week: Staatskapelle Dresden
The Staatskapelle Dresden visits the Proms this week with Principal Conductor Christian Thielemann. With a roll-call of past directors that has included SchΓΌtz, Weber and Wagner, the orchestra is one of Europe's musical glories, its sound warm yet transparent, full-bodied and dynamic. Rob chooses a diverse and distinctive roster of recordings from Vittorio Negri in Vivaldi to Herbert Blomstedt in Beethoven and Otmar Suitner in Tchaikovsky.
Weber
Oberon Overture
Staatskapelle Dresden
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor).
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Joseph Haydn
Works for flute clock, Hob.XIX:21: Vivace
Performer: HansβOla Ericsson.- BIS.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN
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George Gershwin
Strike up the Band (Overture)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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MY FAVOURITE...GYPSY-STYLE SHOWPIECES
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.7 in D minor
Performer: Cyprien Katsaris.- PIANO 21.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto da camera in G minor for recorder, 2 violins and continuo, TWV43:g3
Performer: Michael Schneider. Ensemble: Camerata KΓΆln.- CPO.
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Franz Schubert
Abends unter der Linde, D235 and D237
Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.- HYPERION.
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Dario Castello
Sonata No.10 a 3
Performer: David Staff. Performer: Jeremy West. Performer: William Lyons. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts.- HELIOS.
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Claude Debussy
Images, Book 2: Et la lune descend sur le temple qui fut
Performer: Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin.- Hyperion.
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SAMANTHA BOND'S CHOICE NO.1
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Aram Khachaturian
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.- EMI.
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SAMANTHA BOND'S CHOICE NO.2
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James James
Welsh National Anthem (Hen Wlad fy Nhadau)
Music Arranger: Chris Hazell. Singer: Bryn Terfel. Choir: The Black Mountain Male Chorus. Choir: Risca Male Choir. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Gareth Jones.- DG.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Nocturne in B flat minor, Op.9 no.1
Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.- Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and rondo in C minor K.617
Performer: Dennis James. Ensemble: Salzburg Soloists.- NAXOS.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
March for flute clock, Wq.193/16
Performer: Anton Holzapfel.- ORLANDO RECORDS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
5 Pieces for a musical clock WoO.33 (no.2)
Performer: Anton Holzapfel.- ORLANDO RECORDS.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.101, 'The Clock': III. Menuet (played on a musical clock)
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasia in F minor for mechanical organ, K.608
Performer: Murray Perahia. Performer: Radu Lupu. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN
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Carl Maria von Weber
Oberon (Overture)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.- PROFIL.
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Richard Wagner
Siegfried: beginning of Act 3
Singer: Theo Adam. Singer: Ortrun Wenkel. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Marek Janowski.- EURODISC.
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George Frideric Handel
Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon)
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: King's Consort. Conductor: Robert King.- Your Tuneful Voice.
- VIVAT.
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Francis Poulenc
Sextet for Piano and Wind (3rd mvt)
Ensemble: Les Vents Français.- Warner.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN
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Richard Strauss
Capriccio: Moonlight Music
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.- WARNER.
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Mapping the Music
Answer: a Chinese temple gardenΒ Β
The music played:
Albert W. KetelbeyΒ
In a Chinese temple gardenΒ
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus
Eric Rogers (conductor)
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