Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Omid Djalili
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Dvorak's Slavonic Dances; Artist of the Week: pianist Grigory Sokolov, featured in Mozart's Piano Sonata in F, K332.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Dvor谩k's Slavonic Dances'. Dvor谩k's dances were an instant hit on their publication in 1878, propelling the Czech composer to international fame. A second set brought the total to sixteen dances. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for these miniature masterpieces, showcasing interpretations by conductors including Rafael Kubelik, Jean Martinon and V谩clav Talich.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Rob's guest is the stand-up comedian and actor Omid Djalili. Omid has a varied career across stage and screen and is well known for his popular sketch shows and sell-out international tours. He will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at 10am.
10.30am
Following on from Offenbach's Tales of Hoffman yesterday, Rob explores other works with literary connections.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is Russian pianist Grigory Sokolov, whose performances display virtuosity, poetry and insight in equal measure. Sokolov is regarded as one of the greatest living pianists in Europe, but his refusal to make studio recordings has meant a relative lack of recognition in the UK and USA. This is starting to change following his recent contract, for live recordings only, with Deutsche Grammophon. Throughout the week Rob explores Sokolov's penetrating interpretations of masterpieces from Bach to Prokofiev and Stravinsky, by way of Mozart, Beethoven, Chopin, Brahms and Scriabin.
Mozart
Piano Sonata in F, K332.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft (Cantata no.50, BWV.50)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- SOLI DEO GLORIA.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op 46 No 7
Orchestra: NHK Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann. -
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Clara Schumann
Three Romances for violin and piano, Op 22; 2. Allegretto
Performer: Nurit Stark. Performer: C茅dric Pescia.- CLAVES.
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Clara Schumann
Three Romances for violin and piano, Op 22: Leidenschaftlich schnell
Performer: Nurit Stark. Performer: C茅dric Pescia.- CLAVES.
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Igor Stravinsky
3 Movements from Petrushka
Performer: Grigory Sokolov.- MELODIYA.
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Anton Bruckner
Os iusti
Ensemble: Musica Saeculorum. Conductor: Philipp von Steinaecker.- FRA BERNARDO.
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Robert Schumann
Scenes from Goethe鈥檚 Faust, WoO3 [1844鈥�53]; Scene 7 (conclusion)
Singer: Alfreda Hodgson. Singer: Felicity Palmer. Singer: Meriel Dickinson. Ensemble: Aldeburgh Festival Singers. Choir: Wandsworth School Choir. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Singer: Pauline Stevens. Conductor: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Elizabeth Harwood. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau.- DECCA.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata - 1676 no.1 in C major [Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes]
Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in F, K332
Performer: Grigory Sokolov.- DG.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel Suite
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- DECCA ELOQUENCE.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Flight of the Bumblebee (The Tale of Tsar Saltan)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherazade: Philharmonia/Ashkenazy.
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