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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Alan Ayckbourn

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Romantic and 20th-Century Shakespearean Music; Music in Time; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski conducts Handel's Il delirio amoroso.

9am
My favourite... Romantic and 20th-Century Shakespearean Music. Throughout the week Rob shares a selection of music from the last two hundred years inspired by the plays of the Bard. The line-up includes Korngold and Mendelssohn's musical interpretations of the comedies Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream, as well as the Queen Mab Scherzo from Berlioz's choral symphony Rom茅o et Juliette and the conclusion of Verdi's masterful comic opera Falstaff.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Rob's guest is the Olivier and Tony Award winning playwright and director Sir Alan Ayckbourn. Alan has written eighty plays to date, including Relatively Speaking, How the Other Half Loves, Absurd Person Singular, Bedroom Farce and The Norman Conquests. His plays have been produced in the West End as well as around the world, though Alan is most associated with the Stephen Joseph Theatre in Scarborough where he was Artistic Director for many years, and where the majority of his work has been premiered. Alan will be talking about his life in the theatre and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Jan谩cek, Tallis and Bart贸k, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Rob places Music in Time, heading back to the Medieval era. Machaut's Messe de Notre Dame shows the artistic developments in the church in the late Middle Ages, moving from simple plainchant to more ornate liturgical works.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Marc Minkowski. Hailed as one of the finest early music specialists of his generation, Minkowski founded the period-instrument ensemble, Les Musiciens du Louvre. With this much-praised ensemble he has performed and recorded repertoire not only from the Baroque and Classical periods, but also by Romantic composers including Bizet and Wagner. Throughout the week Rob shares Minkowski's distinctive accounts of Charpentier's Te Deum, Berlioz's dramatic Symphonie fantastique, Schubert's final 'Great' Symphony in C major, Handel's cantata Il delirio amoroso (with soloist Magdalena Kozena), and M茅hul's rarely-heard First Symphony.

Handel
Il delirio amoroso
Magdalena Kozena (mezzo-soprano)
Les Musiciens du Louvre
Marc Minkowski (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Bourree (Water Music Suite in D major, HWV349)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab's Scherzo (Romeo et Juliette)

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O vis aeternitatis

    Music Arranger: Grete Pedersen. Performer: Gjermund Larsen. Performer: Bjorn Kjellemyr. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D major, H.15.8

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Nikolaj Pavlov Budashkin

    Fantasy on Two Folk Songs

    Performer: Rudolf Belov. Orchestra: Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra. Conductor: Vitaly Gnutov.
    • MERCURY.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in E minor, TWV.52.e1

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Concertos pour Instruments 脿 Vent (Ensemble : Musica Antiqua K枚ln - Direction :.
    • Archiv.
    • 16.
  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot

    Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Kyrie (Petite Messe Solenelle)

    Performer: Raymond Alessandrini. Performer: Emmanuel Mandrin. Choir: Ensemble Vocal Michel Piquemal. Director: Michel Piquemal.
    • ACCORD.
  • Alfred Schnittke

    The Building Plot (The Waltz suite)

    Music Arranger: Frank Strobel. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Frank Strobel.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Prague Waltzes

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Dvorak: Legends: Prague Waltzes: Buadapest festival Orchestra / Ivan Fischer.
    • Phillips.
    • 16.
  • Guillaume de Machaut

    Kyrie & Gloria (Messe de Nostre Dame)

    Choir: Orlando Consort.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster

    Performer: Olivier Latry.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Meditation (Souvenir d'un lieu cher Op.42)

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Il deliro amoroso

    Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • ARCHIV.
  • 脡douard Lalo

    Namouna, Suite No.1

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Youmans (arr. Shostakovich)
Tea for Two (Tahiti trot)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA

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  • Thu 21 Jul 2016 09:00

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