Thursday - Rob Cowan with Garry Richardson
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Marches; Music in Time: Lully: Orchestral Suite (Atys); Proms Artist of the Week: Alban Gerhardt, featured in Alkan's Cello Sonata in E.
9am
My favourite... marches. This week Rob slips on a sturdy pair of boots and steps out to the accompaniment of some of his favourite marches - imperious Mozart, Tchaikovsky's patriotic Marche slave, the humbling Dead March from Handel's dramatic oratorio Saul, the famous Alla marcia that closes Sibelius's Karelia Suite and, most imposing of all, the grief-laden Marche fun猫bre from Berlioz's Grande symphonie fun猫bre et triomphale.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together: can you identify them?
10am
Rob's guest this week, sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, is the journalist and presenter Garry Richardson, who has been bringing sports news to radio listeners for over thirty years. Garry currently hosts 5 Live's Sportsweek, as well as presenting the sports section of Radio 4's Today programme, and has interviewed leading personalities from Muhammad Ali and David Beckham to Arnold Schwarzenegger and Bill Clinton. Garry will be talking about his career and sharing music by composers including Gershwin, Bach and Verdi every day at 10am.
10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time. Rob heads back to the Baroque era to hear an orchestral suite from Lully's opera Atys, assembled, not by Lully himself, but by the pioneering Dutch publisher Estiennes Roger a decade or so after the composer's untimely death. Roger's commercial instincts proved to be spot-on, and the suite from Atys was not only popular but also enormously influential, helping to kickstart the development of the Baroque orchestral suite.
11am
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is Alban Gerhardt, who ranks among the most sensitive cellists of the younger generation. Gerhardt appears at London's Royal Albert Hall this Wednesday as the soloist in Dvor谩k's Cello Concerto. Throughout the week on Essential Classics we'll hear Gerhardt perform a rich variety of Romantic cello music. The repertoire ranges from the Bachian tones of a Max Reger solo suite and a rarely heard sonata by Alkan, to the subtly-woven sound-world of Faur茅's First Cello Sonata and Enescu's powerful Sinfonia Concertante. Friday's featured work is Prokofiev's Symphony-Concerto, an affirmative piece in spite of the composer's declining health and the ever-present menace of Stalin's disapproval.
Alkan
Cello Sonata in E, Op. 47
Alban Gerhardt, cello
Steven Osborne, piano.
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Music Played
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Xerxes: Air pour les docteurs, Frivelins et Polichinelles
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- DG.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
In nature's realm, Op.91
Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- SUPRAPHON.
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Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder Waltz, Op.52 No.6: 'Ein kleiner, hubscher Vogel'
Performer: Rudolf Serkin. Performer: Leon Fleisher. Singer: Benita Valente. Singer: Marlena Kleinman. Singer: Wayne Conner. Singer: Martial Singher.- SONY.
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Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder Waltz, Op.52 No.9: 'Am Donaustrande'
Performer: Rudolf Serkin. Performer: Leon Fleisher. Singer: Benita Valente. Singer: Marlena Kleinman. Singer: Wayne Conner. Singer: Martial Singher.- SONY.
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Johannes Brahms
Liebeslieder Waltz, Op.52 No.17: 'Nicht wandle, mein Licht'
Performer: Rudolf Serkin. Performer: Leon Fleisher. Singer: Benita Valente. Singer: Marlena Kleinman. Singer: Wayne Conner. Singer: Martial Singher.- SONY.
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MY FAVOURITE...MARCHES
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Jean Sibelius
Karelia Suite (Alla marcia)
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Sibelius: Finlandia/Luonnota U.A. : Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra/Jarvi.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major, K.270
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach: Cello Suite No. 6: Prelude
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. -
Claude Debussy
Children's Corner: I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.- DG.
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GARRY RICHARDSON'S CHOICE NO.1
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Jeff Beal
House of Cards: Theme Music
Orchestra: The Hollywood Studio Orchestra.- VARESE SARABANDE.
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GARRY RICHARDSON'S CHOICE NO.2
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Ron Goodwin
Where Eagles Dare: main theme
Orchestra: Ron Goodwin Orchestra.- Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra: Adventure and Excitement.
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GARRY RICHARDSON'S CHOICE NO.3
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata, Act I: 鈥楲ibiamo ne鈥 lieti calici鈥
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Jos茅 Carreras. Singer: Pl谩cido Domingo. Choir: Los Angeles Music Centre Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.- TELDEC.
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GARRY RICHARDSON'S CHOICE NO.4
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Maurice Jarre
Lawrence of Arabia (Overture and main title)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Maurice Jarre.- VARESE SARABANDE.
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Girolamo Frescobaldi
Toccata quarta
Performer: Rinaldo Alessandrini. -
Music in Time: Baroque
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Ouverture avec tous les Airs a jouer de l'Opera d'Atys
Performer: Dominik Kiefer. Orchestra: Capriccio Barockorchester.- TUDOR.
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Thea Musgrave
Cantilena, for oboe and string trio
Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Oboe. Ensemble: Members of the Chilingirian Quartet. -
PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ALBAN GERHARDT
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
Cello Sonata in E major, Op.47
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Steven Osborne.- HYPERION.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 35 in D, K385 ('Haffner')
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Stravinsky
Symphony of Psalms: 3rd movement
Russian State Academy Chorus
Russian State Academy Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (conductor)
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Debussy
Children鈥檚 Corner: I. Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Pascal Roge (piano)
DECCA
Broadcast
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