Tuesday - Rob Cowan, plus Sarah Walker with Rick Wakeman
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love the Harpsichord; Musical challenge; Proms Artist of the Week: Evelyn Glennie, featured in Joseph Schwanntner's Percussion Concerto.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the harpsichord'. Rob explores the range of styles of this characterful instrument, including Spanish flavoured pieces by Soler and Scarlatti, works by Couperin with a sense of nobility, Bach's intricate Fantasia and Fugue and the percussive excitement of a concerto by Henryk Gorecki.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?
10am
Throughout the week Sarah talks to the musician Rick Wakeman, who shares a selection of his favourite classical music. Rick abandoned his piano studies at the Royal College of Music to pursue a career in rock, both as a solo performer and in the prog-rock group Yes. He has since become a familiar face on television through his appearances in the 91热爆 television series Grumpy Old Men. Rick's music choices range from Bach to Shostakovich, and his conversations with Sarah cover topics including his friendship with the harpsichord maker Thomas Goff, as well as the everyday business of being a rock legend.
10.30am
This week Rob features recordings by 91热爆 Proms artist Dame Evelyn Glennie, one of the UK's best loved solo musicians who celebrates her 50th birthday this summer. Glennie was born in Aberdeenshire, trained at the Royal Academy of Music, and swiftly became the world's most successful virtuoso percussionist. She has recorded over thirty CDs and, as well as commissioning new works, has written percussion pieces of her own to perform. Her range of instruments is huge; from her beloved marimba to ones she's developed herself including the Simtak, made from an old car exhaust pipe.
Joseph Schwanntner
Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
Evelyn Glennie (percussion and marimba)
National Symphony Orchestra
Leonard Slatkin (conductor).
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Music Played
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PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: EVELYN GLENNIE
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Clair Omar Musser
Etudes Op.6 (no.10 in C major)
Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- RCA.
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5 REASONS TO LOVE...HARPSICHORDS
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Padre Antonio Soler
Fandango in D minor R.146
Performer: Andreas Staier.- TELDEC.
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Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
Overture on Czech themes
Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- MELODIYA.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
The Little Owl Has Not Flown Away (On an Overgrown Path bk.1)
Performer: Rudolf Firku拧n媒.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
The Seasons (Autumn - Prelude)
Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Conductor: Manfred Huss.- BIS.
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Franz Liszt
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- DG.
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RICK WAKEMAN'S CHOICE NO.1
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Giuseppe Verdi
鈥榁edi! Le fosche notturne spoglie鈥 (鈥楢nvil chorus鈥) (Il trovatore, Act 2)
Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- DG.
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RICK WAKEMAN'S CHOICE NO.2
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Year 1812 (festival overture in E flat, Op.49)
Performer: University of Minnesota Brass Band. Performer: Kamiel Lefevre. Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- MERCURY.
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PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: EVELYN GLENNIE
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Joseph Schwantner
Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra
Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Orchestra: RT脡 National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- RCA.
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Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Chopin
Ballade No.2 in F, Op.38
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
RCA
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Smetana
Bartered Bride: Overture
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA LIVING STEREO
Broadcast
- Tue 11 Aug 2015 09:0091热爆 Radio 3