Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Antony Beevor
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Fugues; Music in Time: Chausson's Poeme; Artist of the Week: Clara Haskil, featured performing Mozart's Piano Concerto in A, K488.
9am
My favourite... Fugues
This week, Rob explores that ultimate test of a composer's mettle, the fugue - a musical form in which successive entries of the same melody weave together to create a complex contrapuntal fabric. Rob's favourites include fugues by Bach, Mozart, Walton and Shostakovich - plus a rarely-heard vocal one by the pianist Glenn Gould, aptly titled: "So you want to write a fugue?"
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day, is the acclaimed military historian Antony Beevor. Famous for the best-selling histories of World War Two, Stalingrad and Berlin - The Downfall 1945, his works also include Crete: The Battle and the Resistance and The Battle for Spain: The Spanish Civil War 1936-39. Antony studied at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and went on to serve with the 11th Hussars before becoming a writer, and this week he shares with Rob music including works by Vaughan Williams, Dvorak, Bach and Vivaldi.
10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time. Today the spotlight is on the Romantic era and Chausson's ever-popular Po猫me for violin and orchestra, a passionate monologue that transforms the violin into an instrumental equivalent of the human voice. The piece harks back to the world of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, and provides a window on the Wagner-mania that swept the French musical world in the late 19th century.
11am
Artist of the Week: Clara Haskil
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Romanian pianist Clara Haskil, one of the finest musicians of her generation, who endured a life of great suffering but was adored by a discerning public. Her precious discography has stood the test of time and includes many celebrated recordings - not least, Mozart concertos, heartfelt Schumann, sultry Falla, poetic Chopin, and Beethoven violin sonatas with Arthur Grumiaux, with whom she gave her last concert.
Mozart
Piano Concerto in A, K488
Clara Haskil (piano)
Vienna Symphony Orchestra
Paul Sacher (conductor).
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Grigoras Dinicu
Hora staccato
Music Arranger: H氓kan Hardenberger. Music Arranger: Roland P枚ntinen. Performer: Romain Leleu. Ensemble: Ensemble Convergences.- APARTE.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Rondo 脿 la mazur in F major, Op 5
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- LONDON.
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My Favourite... Fugues
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and Fugue in F minor for violin, viola and cello after W.F. Bach
Ensemble: L鈥橝rchibudelli.- SONY.
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Lukas Foss
Three American Pieces
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. -
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto No.5 in B minor for harpsichord, flute and cello, TWV42:H1
Performer: Wilbert Hazelzet. Performer: Jaap ter Linden. Performer: Konrad Jungh盲nel. Performer: Jacques Ogg.- GLOSSA.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Elegischer Gesang, Op.118
Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Steve Reich
Electric Counterpoint (Fast)
Performer: Pat Metheny.- ELEKTRA/NONESUCH.
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Antony Beevor's Choice No.1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: 'Or sai chi l鈥檕nore'
Singer: Carol Vaness. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- EMI.
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Antony Beevor's Choice No.2
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No.1 in G Major, BWV1007 (4th mvt, Sarabande)
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.
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Antony Beevor's Choice No.3
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No.3 in G major, K.216: III. Rondeau
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- PHILIPS.
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Lili Boulanger
Les lilas avaient fleuri
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Performer: Joseph Middleton.- Fleurs.
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MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.28 in A major, Op.101
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DG.
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Daniel Fran莽ois Esprit Auber
Les Diamants de la Couronne: Overture
Orchestra: Orchestre de La Soci茅t茅 Des Concerts Symphonique de Paris. Conductor: Ren茅 Leibowitz.- SCRIBENDUM.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: CLARA HASKIL
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in A major, K.488
Performer: Clara Haskil. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Conductor: Paul Sacher.- PHILIPS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The Musical Offering: Trio Sonata
Ensemble: Ars Rediviva. Director: Milan Munclinger.- SUPRAPHON.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Valiant-for-Truth
Performer: Ashok Gupta. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Timothy Brown.- Vaughan Williams: Sacred Choral Music.
- Naxos.
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Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Vaughan Williams
The Lark Ascending
Tamsin Waley-Cohen (violin)
Orchestra of the Swan
David Curtis (conductor)
SIGNUM
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Reich
Electric Counterpoint: Movement 1
Pat Metheny (guitar)
NONESUCH
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