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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jeremy Vine

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Waltzes; Musical challenge; Vintage Proms 1915; Artists of the Week: the Monteverdi Choir, featured performing Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... waltzes'. Two composers tend to spring to mind when waltzes are mentioned - Strauss II and Chopin. This week Rob features dazzling examples of the form by these two composers, as well as other composers ranging from Glazunov to Gounod, which will charm, excite and even prompt you to dance.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?

10am
Rob's guest this week is the journalist and broadcaster Jeremy Vine. Jeremy began his career as a radio news reader and researcher, working as a reporter for Radio 4's Today programme, before going on to become the 91热爆's African correspondent, and presenter of news programmes including Panorama and The Politics Show. He currently has his own Radio 2 show, which discusses the news stories of the day, and also presents the quiz show Eggheads, as well as being an integral part of the 91热爆's election night coverage, where he offers political analysis using the famous swingometer. Jeremy will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at 10am.

10.30am
During the 91热爆 Proms 2015 Rob takes a look at the Proms season from a century ago and plays music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Rob showcases works ranging from Liszt's Fantasie on Beethoven's Ruins of Athens, to the ballet music for Massenet's Le Cid.

11am
This week Rob features recordings by one of the country's leading ensembles, The Monteverdi Choir, who are performing Monteverdi's L'Orfeo at the Proms this Tuesday evening. Under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the choir is known for the purity of its top line, and for the dramatic flair they bring to their performances with the Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique and the English Baroque Soloists. Rob features the choir in well-loved choral masterpieces including Mozart's Mass in C minor, Purcell's Come Ye Sons of Art and Bach's Magnificat.

Purcell
Come Ye Sons of Art
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Danse du Miroir

    Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • EMI.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Soir de Fete

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.
  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...WALTZES

    • Charles Gounod

      'Ainsi que la brise legere' (Faust: Act II, Scene 5)

      Singer: Martine Mahe. Singer: Cheryl Studer. Singer: Richard Leech. Singer: Jos茅 van Dam. Choir: Toulouse Capitole Chorus. Orchestra: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
      • EMI.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cypresses for String Quartet, No.5

    Ensemble: Vogler Quartett.
    • CPO.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Alessandro (Overture)

    Orchestra: Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • HYPERION.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Violin Sonata, Op.posth.

    Performer: Charles Libove. Performer: Nina Lugovoy.
    • MUSICIANS SHOWCASE.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Urlicht

    Performer: Charles Spencer. Singer: Anne Schwanewilms.
    • ONYX.
  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Al Jardine

      Lady Lynda

      Composer: Ron Altbach. Ensemble: The Beach Boys.
      • EMI.
  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Jesu Joy of Man鈥檚 Desiring (Cantata No 147)

      Ensemble: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.
      • BIS.
  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Chaconne in D minor

      Performer: James Rhodes. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
      • SIGNUM.
  • Jules Massenet

    Le Cid

    Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DECCA.
  • Robert Coningsby Clarke

    The Blind Ploughman

    Performer: David Willison. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • DECCA.
  • May Brahe

    Bless this house

    Performer: David Willison. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • DECCA.
  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR

    • Henry Purcell

      Come ye sons of art

      Singer: Felicity Lott. Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: John Williams. Singer: Sir Thomas Allen. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Monteverdi Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • ERATO.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No.8 in D minor

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.
  • Aldrin Davis

    God will watch over you

    Performer: David Willison. Singer: Benjamin Luxon.
    • DECCA.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Sibelius
III. Allegro molto (Symphony No.5 in E flat, Op.82)
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
LSO LIVE
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Mahler
Urlicht
Anne Schwanewilms (soprano)
Charles Spencer (piano)
ONYX

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  • Wed 5 Aug 2015 09:00

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