Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Impromptus; Music in Time: Tomas Luis de Victoria; Proms Artist of the Day: 91热爆 NOW, featured performing Stravinsky's Scherzo fantastique.
9:00am
My Favourite... Impromptus. This week Rob shares a selection of his favourite impromptus, works that are based on improvisation and impulse. The line-up includes Schubert's Impromptu in G flat, performed by Alfred Brendel, Scriabin's Impromptu Op.14 No.1 with Klara Min and Bennett's Five Impromptus for guitar featuring Craig Ogden.
9:30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Rob's guest this week is the BAFTA award winning actress and writer Jessica Hynes. Jessica was one of the creators and stars of the popular British sitcom Spaced, and is well known for her other comic roles including Cheryl in The Royle Family and Siobhan in the Olympics backroom comedy Twenty Twelve, and the 91热爆 parody W1A. Jessica will be talking about her comedy writing and her acting roles, and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by John Ireland, Marcel Tournier and Will Todd, every day at 10am.
10:30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time, turning the spotlight on the Renaissance era as he examines how the publication of polyphonic music helped to advance the career and fame of Tom谩s Luis de Victoria, spreading his name, and his glorious music, beyond his native Spain.
10:45am
Rob features the 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales, who will be playing music by Bart贸k, Malcolm Hayes and Dvor谩k in tonight's Prom. This morning Rob shares their interpretation of Stravinsky's Scherzo Fantastique, the sort of narrative repertoire that the orchestra excels in. Conductor Thierry Fischer draws kaleidoscopic colours from 91热爆 NOW in this late-Romantic showpiece.
Stravinsky
Scherzo fantastique
91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales
Thierry Fischer (conductor).
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Igor Stravinsky
Circus Polka
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.- Rafael Kubelik: Rare Recordings 1963 - 1974.
- DG.
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MY FAVOURITE...IMPROMPTUS
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Alexander Scriabin
Impromptu in B major, Op.14 No.1
Performer: Klara Min.- STEINWAY & SONS.
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Jacques Ibert
Escales
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA LIVING STEREO.
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Henry Purcell
Distressed Innocence, Z.577: Air - Slow Air - Air - Hornpipe
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. -
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Edvard Grieg
Die verschwiegene Nachtigall
Performer: Charles Spencer. Singer: Chen Reiss.- ONYX.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 9
Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.- Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
- L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Pezzo Capriccioso, Op.62
Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.- RCA.
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JESSICA HYNES' CHOICE NO.1
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John Adams
El Nino: La Anunciacion; For with God no thing shall be impossible
Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- NONESUCH.
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JESSICA HYNES' CHOICE NO.2
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Will Todd
Softly
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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Alexander Glazunov
Barcarolle in D flat major, Op 22 No 1
Performer: Stephen Coombs. -
MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE
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Tom谩s Luis de Victoria
Vadam et circuibo civitatem
Choir: Stile Antico.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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John Dowland
The Shoemaker's Wife
Performer: Paul O鈥橠ette.- Dowland: Musicke for the Lute.
- Astree.
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PROMS ARTIST OF THE DAY:91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique
Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.- SIGNUM.
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Heard on Screen
Answer: The Living Daylights (James Bond)
The music played:
Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme: Variation VII e coda
Jean-Guihen Queyras (cello)
91热爆 Symphony Orchestra
Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI
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