Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet; Artist of the Week: Reinhard Goebel, featured in Heinrich Bach's Ich danke dir, Gott.
9²Ή³Ύβ―
Robβ―sets the tone and mood of the day'sβ―programmeβ―with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30²Ή³Ύβ―
Takeβ―part in today's musical challenge: listen to the music and name the two composers associated with it.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the historian and broadcaster, Suzannah Lipscomb. Suzannah's interest in history started at home growing up near the site of one of Henry VIII's former palaces, Nonsuch, and since then she's become a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities, London. She's written a number of books about Henry VIII and Tudor England, and has specialised in the study of women in this period. She's also a frequent broadcaster: most recently appearing on our screens in The Great Fire: In Real Time, she also co-wrote and co-presented Henry VIII and his Six Wives for Channel 5, and wrote and presented Hidden Killers for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Four. As well as discussing her work as an historian, Suzannah shares her passion for classical music, choosing a selection of her favourite works.
10.30am
Music on Location: Paris
Rob features music from Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet, which was premiered at the Paris Conservatoire by a 200-strong orchestra ensemble and choir in November 1839.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two interpretations of "Largo al factotum", the famous 'Figaro, Figaro' aria from Rossini's comic opera The Barber of Seville. We'll hear renditions by baritones Hermann Prey and Robert Merrill.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and violinist, Reinhard Goebel. In 1973 Goebel founded Musica Antiqua KΓΆln, an instrumental ensemble initially made up of his fellow students at the Cologne Conservatory. Together they became one of the leading exponents of Baroque performance practice and have played a significant role in increasing the profile of Baroque composers such as Telemann, Heinichen, Biber and the wider Bach dynasty. Goebel usually led the group from the violin, but an unexpected focal dystonia in his left hand brought his solo career to an end and forced him to bow with the other arm. In 2000 he gave up the violin entirely and focused on conducting, but he is still Professor of Baroque Violin at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. This week Rob's chosen a selection of Goebel's recordings with Musica Antiqua KΓΆln: their highly-acclaimed account of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3, a motet by Heinrich Bach (J.S. Bach's great-uncle), part of Telemann's Tafelmusik, Biber's programmatic Battalia and one of Heinichen's Dresden Concerti.
Heinrich Bach
Cantata: Ich danke dir, Gott
Musica Antiqua KΓΆln
Reinhard Goebel (violin/director)
Canada 150
Rob marks the 150th anniversary of Canada's birth as a country by sharing a favourite recording by a classic Canadian artist.
Mozart
Serenade in D major, K320 'Posthorn'
Tafelmusik
Bruno Weil (conductor).
Last on
Music Played
-
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- EMI.
-
Giacomo Puccini
Crisantemi
Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.- Naxos.
-
Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Ego flos campi
Choir: Stile Antico.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
-
Frederick Delius
The Walk to the Paradise Garden (A Village Romeo and Juliet)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.- EMI.
-
CΓ©cile Chaminade
Valse arabesque
Performer: Eric Parkin.- CHANDOS.
-
Samuel Wesley
Symphony in D major (1784)
Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- CHANDOS.
-
Benjamin Britten
Nocturnal after John Dowland: Dreaming
Performer: Craig Ogden.- HYPERION.
-
John Dowland
Sleep, wayward thoughts; Come, heavy Sleep
Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Singer: Mark Padmore.- HYPERION.
-
Suzannah Lipscomb's First Choice
-
Franz Schubert
Piano Quintet in A major, D667 'The Trout': I. Allegro vivace
Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels. Performer: Rainer Zepperitz. Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.- DG.
-
-
Suzannah Lipscomb's Second Choice
-
Franz Schubert
4 Impromptus D.899 (no.3 in G flat major)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- DG.
-
-
Music on Locations: Paris (Paris Conservatoire)
-
Hector Berlioz
Romeo and Juliet (Queen Mab Scherzo)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la SociΓ©tΓ© des Concerts du Conservatoire. Conductor: AndrΓ© Cluytens.- WARNER.
-
-
Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 362, 'La caccia'
Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.- Virgin.
-
Double Take
-
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville (Largo al factotum)
Singer: Hermann Prey. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Decca.
-
Gioachino Rossini
The Barber of Seville: "Largo al factotum"
Singer: Robert Merrill. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf.- RCA.
-
-
Artist of the Week: Reinhard Goebel
-
Heinrich Bach
Cantata: Ich danke dir, Gott
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua KΓΆln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- DG.
-
-
George Antheil
Jazz Symphony for three pianos and orchestra
Performer: Frank Dupree. Performer: Adrian Brendle. Performer: Uram Kim. Orchestra: Deutsche Staatsphilharmonie RheinlandβPfalz. Conductor: KarlβHeinz Steffens.- CAPRICCIO.
-
Carl Maria von Weber
Der FreischΓΌtz (Overture)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- EMI CLASSICS.
-
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in D major, K320 'Posthorn'
Orchestra: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.- SONY.
Musical Challenge: By Association
Broadcast
- Tue 27 Jun 2017 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3