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Friday - Rob Cowan with Samantha Bond

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Gypsy-Style Showpieces; Music in Time: The Triumphs of Oriana; Artist of the Week: Staatskapelle Dresden, featured in Tchaikovsky's Serenade in C.

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 Dinicu (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: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

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: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time. He selects English madrigals from "The Triumphs of Oriana", a collection compiled by Thomas Morley in 1601 and said to be in honour of Queen Elizabeth. The 25 madrigals encompass a wide range of composers, but all end with the same refrain: "Then sang the shepherds and nymphs of Diana: Long live fair Oriana".

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.

Tchaikovsky
Serenade in C major, Op.48, for string orchestra
Staatskapelle Dresden
Otmar Suitner (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Ellis Gibbons

    Round about her charret, with all-admiring strains

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Performer: David Miller. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sonatina No.1 in D major for violin and piano, D384

    Performer: Josef Suk. Performer: Jan Panenka.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • MY FAVOURITE...GYPSY-STYLE SHOWPIECES

    • Johann Strauss II

      Der Zigeunerbaron (Overture)

      Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
      • J. Strauss: Der Zigeunerbaron: Wiener Symphoniker/Harnoncourt.
      • Teldec.
      • 1.

  • Clara Schumann

    An einem lichten Morgen (6 Songs from Jucunde Op.23)

    Singer: Geraldine McGreevy. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Hyperion.

  • William Lawes

    Royall consort suite no. 8 in C major

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Ballade no.3 in A flat major Op.47

    Performer: Krystian Zimerman.
    • DG.

  • George Gershwin

    Porgy and Bess: Introduction and Summertime

    Singer: Harolyn Blackwell. Choir: Glyndebourne Chorus. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Arnold Bax

    Country-Tune

    Performer: Eric Parkin.
    • Arnold Bax: Piano music volume 1: Eric Parkin.
    • Chandos.

  • SAMANTHA BOND'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Erik Satie

      GymnopΓ©die no.1 in D major

      Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
      • Satie: Avant-Dernieres Pensees.
      • Harmonia Mundi.
      • 3.

  • SAMANTHA BOND'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Robert Schumann

      Piano Quartet in E flat major, Op.47: III. Andante cantabile

      Ensemble: Pro Arte Piano Quartet.
      • DECCA ELOQUENCE.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • RCA.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • John Wilbye

      The Lady Oriana for 6 voices [from "The triumphs of Oriana", 1601]

      Performer: David Miller. Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
      • CHANDOS.

    • Thomas Morley

      Hard by a crystal fountain

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
      • CHANDOS.

    • John Mundy

      Lightly she whipped o'er the dales

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
      • CHANDOS.

    • Thomas Hunt

      Hark! Did ye ever hear so sweet a singing?

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
      • CHANDOS.

    • Thomas Weelkes

      As Vesta was from Latmos hill descending for 6 voices [from The triumphs.......]

      Ensemble: I Fagiolini. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances (Gloriana)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bream. Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Sommerfugl, Op 43 No 1 (Lyric Pieces)

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STAATSKAPELLE DRESDEN

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Serenade in C major for string orchestra, Op.48

      Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.
      • EDEL CLASSICS.

    • Richard Strauss

      The Dinner (Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme - suite)

      Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
      • Warner Classics.

  • Percy Grainger

    Country Gardens

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 9.

  • Jonathan Dove

    Wellcome, all wonders in one sight

    Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • HYPERION.

  • George Gershwin

    Summertime (Porgy and Bess)

    Singer: Billie Holiday. Performer: Artie Shaw.
    • FLAPPER.

Classical Roots

Answer: Janis Joplin's Summertime is based on Gershwin's original

The music played:

Summertime
Janis JoplinΒ 
Big Brother and the Holding Company
CBS

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