Sound Frontiers: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lucian Msamati
Rob Cowan presents live from Southbank Centre. Including Music in Time: Poulenc: Concerto for Two Pianos; Artist of the Week: Michael Gielen, featured conducting Debussy's Jeux.
9am
My favourite... Brahms Intermezzos. Such is his love of Brahms' piano music that Rob struggled to find his favourite intermezzos, but eventually chose a selection primarily from the Opp. 117-119 collections. They are performed by such varied Brahms interpreters as Steven Kovacevich, Clifford Curzon, Eugene Istomin, Evgeny Kissin and Glenn Gould, all of whom bring their unique, individual voices to the poetry of Brahms' piano-writing.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: name two pieces, one layered on top of the other
10am
Rob's guest is the actor Lucian Msamati. Best known for his role as Salladhor Saan in Game of Thrones, in 2015 Lucian he became the first black actor ever to play Iago in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Othello, alongside Hugh Quarshie as Othello. In the same year he made his directorial debut with Boi Boi Is Dead. His stage work includes Clybourne Park and the London riots play Little Revolution, while recent TV credits include The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Ashes to Ashes and Doctor Who. Throughout the week, Lucian shares his favourite pieces of classical music with Rob and on Friday he appears live in the Essential Classics pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre.
10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 麻豆约拍 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.
Followed by
Music in Time: Modern
Rob places Music in Time. Today, we are in the Modern period with music from a composer very much associated with the madcap world of early 20th century Paris: Poulenc. The Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra draws on a variety of stylistic sources, borrowing from the hypnotic sounds of the Balinese gamelan in the first movement and then turning to the grace of a Mozart slow movement in the second, though Poulenc's own characteristic personal touches - above all his sense of fun - underlie the whole piece.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and composer Michael Gielen who when he retired in 2014, left behind an extensive recorded legacy. He held conducting posts from Vienna and Stockholm to Cincinnati and London. Besides championing the music of contemporary composers, he also excelled in music of the classical and romantic eras, which Rob focuses on this week, with Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony, Schubert's 'Great' C major Symphony, Debussy's tennis-themed ballet Jeux, Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and the opening Adagio from Mahler's final, incomplete Symphony No. 10.
Debussy
Jeux
SWR-Sinfonieorchester Baden-Baden
Michael Gielen (conductor).
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Music Played
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL GIELEN
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Igor Stravinsky
Agon: Prelude
Orchestra: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Conductor: Michael Gielen.- HANSSLER.
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Johann Theile
Die Seele Christi heilige mich (cantata for soprano)
Singer: Ingeborg Dalheim. Ensemble: Trondheim Barokk.- SIMAX.
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MY FAVOURITE...BRAHMS INTERMEZZOS
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in B flat minor, Op.117 No.2
Performer: Eugene Istomin.- SONY.
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Christian Sinding
Suite for violin and orchestra in A minor
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- EMI.
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Frank Bridge
Autumn
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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C茅sar Franck
Prelude, Choral et Fugue
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sonata No 1 in G minor for violin solo, BWV 1001 (Adagio)
Performer: Viktoria Mullova.- Bach: 6 Sonatas & Partitas.
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Lucian Msamati's Choice No.1
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Claude Debussy
Arabesque No.1
Performer: Walter Gieseking.- EMI.
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Lucian Msamati's Choice No.2
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Act II: Pas de Deux
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- MERCURY.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for recorder in G, RV443
Performer: Lucie Horsch (recorder). Ensemble: Amsterdam Vivaldi Players. Director: Candida Thompson. -
MUSIC IN TIME: MODERN
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Francis Poulenc
Concerto for two pianos and orchestra
Performer: Fran莽ois鈥怰en茅 Duch芒ble. Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Conlon.- APEX.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
When thy sweet glances fall on me (Cypresses)
Ensemble: Prague String Quartet.- DG.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL GIELEN
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Joseph Haydn
Mass in D minor Hob.XXII:11, 'Nelson Mass'
Singer: Eva Lind. Singer: Ingeborg Danz. Singer: James Taylor. Singer: Reinhard Hagen. Choir: EuropaChorAkademie. Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Gielen.- GLOR CLASSICS.
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Edward Elgar
Introduction and Allegro
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in A flat major, Op 42
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Chopin: Piano works.
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Imperfect Harmony
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Dido & Aeneas: When I am laid in Earth鈥�
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Christopher Monks (director)鈥�
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Partita for solo violin in G minor, BWV1001: I. Adagio
Viktoria Mullova鈥�(violin)鈥�
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