Friday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Old Czech Marches and Dances; Ton Koopman; composer Debbie Wiseman; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antarctica.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Old Czech Marches and Dances with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Vaclav Neumann; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Only Connect.
10am
Artist of the Week: Harpsichordist, organist and conductor Ton Koopman
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the film and television composer Debbie Wiseman. Debbie's film and television credits include more than 200 titles, such as Judge John Deed, The Land Girls, Tom's Midnight Garden, and Wilde. In 2008 she composed a new "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" called "Different Voices", and her album of music to accompany Oscar Wilde's fairy stories, Wilde Stories, was nominated for a Grammy Award and later made into a trilogy of animated films for Channel 4. In 2004, Debbie was awarded an MBE for services to the music and film industry.
11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:
Vaughan Williams: Sinfonia Antarctica.
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Great composers and musical directors from the 91ȱ archives
Music Played
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Arthur Benjamin
Hyde Park Galop (An Ideal Husband)
Orchestra: 91ȱ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Chandos.
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Ottorino Respighi
La Boutique Fantasque (Nocturne; Galop)
Orchestra: 91ȱ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- Chandos.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in E flat, WoO 38
Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Jacqueline du Pré.- EMI.
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Various Artists
Only Connect
Conductor: anon. -
Felix Mendelssohn
Hebrides Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.- EMI.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Trio Sonata in G major, Op 1 No 2, BuxWV 253
Performer: Ton Koopman. Performer: Catherine Manson. Performer: Paolo Pandolfo.- Challenge Classics.
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Aram Khachaturian
Gayaneh: Gayaneh's Adagio
Performer: Khachaturian, Aram Ilich / Glazunov, Alexander Konstantinovich.- Spartacus / Gayaneh / The Seasons.
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Luigi Boccherini
Cello Concerto in D, G.476
Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman. -
Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces - Ballade Op.65
Performer: Mie Miki (accordian).- BIS.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
Hansel und Gretel: Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Constantin Silvestri.- EMI.
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Joseph Horovitz
String Quartet No 5
Ensemble: Carducci String Quartet.- Carducci Classics.
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Bohuslav Martinů
Symphony No. 4: Finale
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Turnovský.- Supraphon.
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Frédéric Chopin
Prelude No.22 in G minor Op.28
Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano).- DG.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Scott of the Antarctic: Suite from the music for the film
Singer: Merryn Gamba. Choir: Sheffield Philharmonic Chorus. Performer: John Scott. Orchestra: 91ȱ Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba. -
Ermanno Wolf‐Ferrari
Overture to La dama boba
Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Performer: Sir Neville Marriner (conductor).- EMI.
Today's Brainteaser Answer
Only Connect: the connection was that all the pieces played featured in Stanley Kubrick's film '2001: A Space Odyssey'.
The music played:
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Also sprach Zarathustra, Op. 30: I. Einleitung (Sonnenaufgang)
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA 448 815 2
Khachaturian
Gayane’s Adagio
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Gennadi Rozdhestvensky (conductor)
MGM CDP 7933022
Johann Strauss Jr.
An Der Schönen Blauen Donau
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI CMS 567 323 2
Broadcast
- Fri 27 Sep 2013 09:0091ȱ Radio 3