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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Paris. Music by Wagner; Artist of the Week: violinist Reinhard Goebel, featured in Heinichen's Dresden Concerto in F.

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Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.    
 
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Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical person.

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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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 is at the Paris Opéra hearing music by Wagner that was specially adapted to satisfy the demands of the Parisian audience.

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and violinist, Reinhard Goebel. In 1973 Goebel founded Musica Antiqua Köln, 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 Köln: 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.

Heinichen
Dresden Concerto in F major, S235
Musica Antiqua Köln
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.

R. Schumann
Frauenliebe und -leben, Op.42
Maureen Forrester (contralto)
John Newmark (piano).

3 hours

Last on

Wed 28 Jun 2017 09:00

Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen, Op.17: Traumerei

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • CBS.
  • Johann Pachelbel

    Suite in E minor for two violins & continuo (IV. Ciaccona)

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • DG.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Adagio (String Quintet in F major)

    Orchestrator: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski. Orchestra: Saarbrücken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stanislaw Skrowaczewski.
    • Bruckner - 11 Symphonies.
    • OEHMS.
    • 005.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Friday Afternoons, Op.7 (Old Abram Brown)

    Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Performer: Alexander Wells. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • NAXOS.
  • Robert White

    Christe qui lux es et dies IV

    Choir: Gallicantus. Director: Gabriel Crouch.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Béla Bartók

    Hungarian Peasant Songs Sz.100

    Conductor: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Three Hungarian Folksongs (Dances from Kallo)

    Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Vladimir Yampolsky.
    • EMI.
  • Suzannah Lipscomb's Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Sonata No.23 in F minor, 'Appassionata'

      Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
      • EMI.
  • Music on Location: Paris (Paris version of Tannhauser)

    • Richard Wagner

      Tannhäuser: Venusberg Music

      Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky.
      • Scribendum.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Caprice on Danish and Russian Airs

    Performer: Canada's National Arts Centre Wind Quintet. Performer: Stéphane Lemelin.
    • NAXOS.
  • Traditional English

    Ave Rex Angelorum

    Choir: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM NEW SERIES.
  • Artist of the Week: Reinhard Goebel

    • Johann David Heinichen

      Dresden Concerto in F major, S 235

      Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
      • DG.
  • Robert Schumann

    Frauenliebe und -leben, Op.42

    Performer: John Newmark. Singer: Maureen Forrester.
    • SONY.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Person

The Mystery Person was the Hungarian composer, folk-collector and pedagogue, Zoltán Kodaly.

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