Friday - Rob Cowan with Antonia Fraser
With Rob Cowan. Including 5 Reasons to Love French Melodies; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Arthur Grumiaux; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Prologue (Sleeping Beauty).
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...French Melodies'. With performances of songs by composers including Berlioz, Ravel and Duparc from such diverse singers as Rita Streich, Thomas Hampson, Mady Mespl茅, Leopold Simoneau and Sandrine Piau, Rob explores the wide range of expression this genre offers.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: two pieces of music are being played at the same time - can you identify them?
10am
Rob's guest this week is the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser. The author of many acclaimed historical works including Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Fraser will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Mozart and Schubert, every day at 10am.
10.30am
This week Rob features the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. A fine pianist as well as a violinist, Grumiaux was known for his graceful performances and purity of tone. Rob features classic recordings of him in repertoire for which he is especially celebrated, including the solo violin music of Bach, as well as works by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Faur茅.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob explores great ballet scores
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Prologue
Minneapolis Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor)
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Act III (conclusion)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).
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Music Played
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Max Bruch
Suite on Russian Themes: Dance
Orchestra: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.- CPO.
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5 reasons to love... French melodies
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Henri Duparc
L鈥檌nvitation au voyage
Performer: Allan Rogers. Singer: L茅opold Simoneau.- WESTMINSTER.
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anon
Pensis chief enclin
Ensemble: Anonymous 4.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Joseph Haydn
Il ritorno di Tobia (Overture)
Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Conductor: Manfred Huss.- BIS.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Artist of the Week: Arthur Grumiaux
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Claude Debussy
Violin Sonata
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Istvan Hadju.- PHILIPS.
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Johannes Brahms
Begrabnisgesang
Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- PHI.
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Benjamin Britten
Canticle I: My Beloved is Mine, Op. 40
Performer: Anna Tilbrook. Singer: James Gilchrist.- LINN.
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Antonia Fraser's Choice No. 1
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John Adams
The Chairman Dances
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Antonia Fraser's Choice No. 2
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Felix Mendelssohn
Concerto for 2 pianos in E major: Movement III
Ensemble: Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- CBS.
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Artist of the Week: Arthur Grumiaux
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Max Bruch
Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Heinz Wallberg.- PENTATONE.
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John Ireland
Ballerina
Performer: Piers Lane.- HYPERION.
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Essential Choice
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Prologue
Orchestra: Minneapolis Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- DORATI SOCIETY.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Act III (conclusion)
Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.- DG.
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Enrique Granados
Danza espanola No. 5: Andaluza
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Istv谩n Hajdu. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.- DECCA.
Imperfect Harmony
Britten
Canticle No. 2: Abraham and Isaac
Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Roger Vignoles (piano)
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Faure
Requiem: In Paradisum
Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge
English Chamber Orchestra
Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
EMI
Broadcast
- Fri 17 Apr 2015 09:0091热爆 Radio 3