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Friday - 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 Handel's Dixit Dominus.

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: identify a piece of music played backwards.

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.

Handel
Dixit Dominus
The Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jeremiah Clarke

    The Prince of Denmark鈥檚 March (Rondeau)

    Music Arranger: Joachim Sch盲fer. Conductor: Joachim Sch盲fer. Ensemble: Joachim Sch盲fer Trumpet Ensemble.
    • CHRISTOPHORUS.
  • George Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No.1, Op.11

    Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • RCA.
  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...WALTZES

    • Oskar Nedbal

      Valse triste

      Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
      • SUPRAPHON.
  • B茅la Bart贸k

    2 Romanian Dances, Sz.43

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Josef Strauss

    Music of the Spheres, Op 235

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • EMI.
  • Charles Gounod

    Funeral March of a Marionette

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.
  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Samuel Barber

      Adagio

      Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
      • BIS.
  • JEREMY VINE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      October Cantata, Op.74 (excerpt)

      Choir: Choirs of the Republic of Russia. Choir: Harmonie de l'Academie Frounze. Orchestra: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
      • LYS.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Excerpt from Salve, salve, salve Regina

    Singer: Mar铆a Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Franz Liszt

    Fantasie on themes from 鈥楾he Ruins of Athens鈥 by Beethoven

    Performer: Michel B茅roff. Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • EMI.
  • Guy d鈥橦ardelot

    Because

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Thomas Allen.
    • HYPERION.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    La muse et le po猫te, Op 132

    Performer: Ulf Hoelscher. Performer: Ralph Kirshbaum. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Brilliant Classics.
  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE MONTEVERDI CHOIR

    • George Frideric Handel

      Dixit Dominus

      Singer: Angela Kazimierczuk. Singer: Donna Deam. Singer: Katharine Fuge. Singer: Gill Ross. Singer: Charles Humphries. Singer: Richard Wyn Roberts. Singer: Rory O'Connor. Singer: Robert Burt. Singer: Julian Clarkson. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • PHILIPS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.38 in C major, 'Das Echo'

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • SONY.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Gounod
Funeral March of a Marionette
91热爆 Philharmonic
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
CHANDOS

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  • Fri 7 Aug 2015 09:00

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