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Wednesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau; Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Copland: Suite (The Heiress).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Puzzle.

10am
Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.

11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:

Copland: Suite from The Heiress

Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Rob dips into his CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!

3 hours

Last on

Wed 2 Oct 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Coleridge-Taylor

    La Tarantelle (Petite Suite de Concert)

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: George Weldon.
    • EMI.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 418

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • 6 Cello Concertos (The Academy of Ancient Music, feat. cello: Christophe Coin, c.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 7-9.
  • Gerald Finzi

    O mistress mine; Who is Sylvia? (Let Us Garlands Bring, Op 18)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • DG.
  • anon

    Brainteaser - Puzzle

    Performer: anon.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue for piano and strings

    Performer: Piers Lane. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • EMI.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Tsar's Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
    • Naxos.
  • Padre Antonio Soler

    Sonata No 26 in E minor

    Performer: Marie-Luise Hinrichs.
    • Warner.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in A flat op 72 no 8

    Performer: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • Joaqu铆n Turina

    Piano Trio No 2 in B minor, Op 76

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
  • Yo鈥怸o Ma & Bobby McFerrin

    Andante

    • Hush.
    • Sony.
    • 2.
  • Prokofiev

    Dance of the Prince's Companions; Mazurka; Cinderella's Arrival; Grand Waltz from Cinderella

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.
    • EMI.
  • Hughes/Mackay

    Air like Velvet

    Orchestra: Bombay Dub Orchestra.
    • Tales from the Grand Bazaar.
    • Six Degrees Records.
    • 9.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Serse: "Ombra Mai Fu"

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • The World of Kathleen Ferrier.
    • Decca.
    • 8.
  • W.F.Bach

    Polonaise no 10 in F minor

    Performer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood. Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar.
    • LINN.
  • Aaron Copland

    Suite from the Heiress

    Orchestra: Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • RCA.
  • Aaron Copland

    Dance Panels (No 5)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Naxos.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Trio in F minor, Op. 65

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

Today's Brainteaser Answer

Puzzle. The link was a letter connection between the name of each composer 鈥 Copland was the first composer, and Copland鈥檚 name ends with 'D', which is the starting letter for Dvorak (the second composer). Dvorak ends in 'K', the first letter of Kodaly鈥檚 name.

The music played:

Copland
Fanfare for the Common Man
Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
EMI 381 498 2 聽聽

Dvorak
Slavonic Dance in G minor, Op. 46 No. 8
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 4190562聽聽聽

Kodaly
Hary Janos Suite, Op. 35A - Prelude: The Fairy Tale Begins
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 444 322 2

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