Thursday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Paris: Lili Boulanger; Artist of the Week: violinist Reinhard Goebel, featured performing Biber's Battalia a 10.
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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 麻豆约拍 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's focus today is on a Psalm by Lili Boulanger, in a recording conducted by Igor Markevitch. Both Boulanger and Markevitch made a big splash in Parisian musical circles in their time.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two interpretations of Schubert's Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 No.4 by Mitsuko Uchida and Sergei Rachmaninov, a performance preserved on a piano roll made in 1928.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and violinist, Reinhard Goebel. In 1973 Goebel founded Musica Antiqua K枚ln, 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 K枚ln: 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.
Biber
Battalia a 10
Musica Antiqua K枚ln
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.
Rachmaninov
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19
Zara Nelsova (cello)
Artur Balsam (piano).
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Gabriel Faur茅
Sicilienne, Op.78
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.- Faur茅: Cello Sonatas Nos. 1 & 2.
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Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite鈥�
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- CBS.
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Cheryl Frances-Hoad
O Come, Let Us Sing鈥疷nto鈥痶he Lord
Choir: Sansara. Conductor: Meghan Quinlan.- CONVIVIUM.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: REINHARD GOEBEL
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Johann Heinrich Schmelzer
Polish Bagpipes
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- DG.
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Josef Strauss
Music of the Spheres
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.- TESTAMENT.
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Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata (3rd mvt)
Performer: Sharon Bezaly. Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- BIS.
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Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand
Performer: John Scott.- PRIORY.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat, Op.73: III. Rondo
Performer: Barry Douglas. Orchestra: Camerata Ireland. Director: Barry Douglas.- SATIRINO.
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SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'S second CHOICE
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in C鈥痬inor,鈥� K鈥�457: I. Allegro molto
Performer: Christian Blackshaw.- WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
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George Kirbye
See, what a maze of error
Choir: Purcell Consort of Voices. Conductor: Grayston Burgess. -
Music on Location: Paris
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Lili Boulanger
Psalm 24
Performer: Jean-Jacques Grunenwald. Choir: Ch艙urs 脡lisabeth Brasseur. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.- EVEREST.
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DOUBLE TAKE
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 No.4
Performer: Sergey Rachmaninov.- RCA.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A flat major D.899 no.4
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- PHILIPS.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Gwendoline (Overture)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: REINHARD GOEBEL
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Battalia a 10
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- Scherzi Musicali 鈥� Biber Schmelzer Walther.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19
Performer: Zara Nelsova. Performer: Artur Balsam.- DECCA.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sonata in B flat major for harpsichord and flute, K.10
Performer: Jean鈥怭ierre Rampal. Performer: Robert Veyron鈥怢acroix.- ERATO.
Musical Challenge: Imperfect Harmony
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