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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Deborah Moggach

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Cello Miniatures; Artist of the Week: Andris Nelsons, featured conducting Shostakovich's Symphony No 10.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... cello miniatures'. Rob chooses a selection of bite-sized treats for cello that showcase all that the instrument has to offer, from its singing voice and mellow quality to a sense of gutsy attack and varied range of colour and tone. Throughout the week Rob shares his favourite compact works for the cello, with gems by composers including Rachmaninov, Saint-Sa毛ns and Mendelssohn.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest is author Deborah Moggach, who wrote the book behind the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and whose novel Tulip Fever is currently being filmed. Her screenplays for TV include adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightley) and the Diary of Anne Frank, plus dramas Seesaw and Stolen. She talks about the challenges of adapting novels for the screen and how she constructs a story, and her music choices range from Mozart and Shostakovich to Gershwin and Verdi.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. In anticipation of Nelsons' performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Proms this weekend, Rob shares some major recordings by this exciting young conductor, who is currently in his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob guides you through Nelsons' interpretations of works by composers ranging from Shostakovich and Stravinsky to Strauss and Brahms.

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 10
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Jazz Suite No 1 (Polka)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • 5 Reaons to love... Cello Miniatures

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      脡l茅gie Op.24

      Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
      • RCA.
  • Johann Christoph Bach

    Motet: 'Lieber Herr Gott, wecke uns auf'

    Conductor: Konrad Jungh盲nel. Choir: Cantus C枚lln. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto in D major, BWV 1054

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Conductor: Bernard Labadie. Ensemble: Violins du Roy.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Cecilia McDowall

    The Lord is Good

    Singer: Susanna Fairbairn. Singer: Miranda Laurence. Choir: Sospiri. Conductor: Christopher Watson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    Sonata Sancti Polycarpi

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance for strings, Op 11

    Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble. Director: Jonathan Morton.
    • WIGMORE HALL.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Tanzlied des Pierrot (Die tote Stadt)

    Performer: Joseph Lin. Performer: Benjamin Loeb.
    • NAXOS.
  • Deborah Moggach's Choice No. 1

    • Franz Schubert

      String Quintet in C major, D.956 (2nd mvt)

      Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
      • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Deborah Moggach's Choice No. 2

    • George Gershwin, Glyndebourne Chorus & Sir Simon Rattle

      Summertime from Porgy and Bess

      Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Singer: Harolyn Blackwell.
      • EMI.
  • Robert Schumann

    6 Songs Op.89: No.6 - Roselein, Roselein!

    Performer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.
    • Fleurs.
    • BIS.
    • 3.
  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1

    Ensemble: Musikverein Quartet.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Sylphe (Lyric pieces, Bk.7)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
  • Artist of the Week: Andris Nelsons

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Symphony No. 10

      Conductor: Andris Nelsons. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
      • DG.

Mystery Person

The person was: Erich Wolfgang聽Korngold

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  • Tue 14 Jul 2015 09:00

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