Thursday - Rob Cowan with Al Murray
With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Piano Duos; Music in Time: Wagner: Tannhauser (excerpt); Artists of the Week: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, featured in Mozart's Symphony No 38.
9am
My favourite... piano duos. If three's a crowd, two's definitely company, and when it comes to piano duos - whether for two pianos or for four hands at a single instrument - that company can be richly rewarding. Rob's favourite piano duos include works by Mozart, Schubert, Bart贸k and Lutoslawski, as well as a magical vintage recording of a waltz by Arensky - definitely not to be missed!
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 is the stand-up comedian Al Murray. Best known for his alter-ego 'The Pub Landlord', Al has performed sell-out shows around the world, as well as making television appearances at The Royal Variety Performance and Live at the Apollo. Al has written books in his pub landlord persona, including The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Let's Re-Great Britain. Outside of his pub landlord character, Al has presented Al Murray's Road to Berlin, about the last phase of the Second World War, for the Discovery Channel and Al Murray's German Adventure for 91热爆 Four. He is currently touring his new show 'Let's Go Backwards Together'. Al shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Bach, Handel and Orff, and talks about playing percussion, and reminisces about his performance on the triangle in Dvor谩k's New World Symphony, every day at 10am.
10.30am
Power of Three - The next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 91热爆 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time. Today the focus is on the Romantic era and a thrilling bacchanale that Wagner added to his opera Tannh盲user for the Paris premi猫re in 1861, to satisfy the French requirement that Grand Opera should include an extended ballet sequence. Wagner placed his ballet not, as was then the custom, in the second act, but in the first, as a glowing tail to the overture. Incensed by the break with tradition, members of the high-society Jockey Club mounted a series of increasingly noisy and disruptive protests during performances, which brought the opera's run to an end after just three evenings.
11am
Rob's artists of the week are the late Sir Neville Marriner's orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, a superb gathering of players who can turn their hands to virtually any repertoire and make a handsome job of it. We'll hear them in masterpieces from Bach to Bart贸k, dropping in on Mozart, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky along the way.
Mozart
Symphony No. 38 in D, K504 ('Prague')
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in E flat major, K.252: IV. Presto Assai
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Lili Boulanger
D'un matin de printemps
Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. -
MY FAVOURITE...PIANO DUOS
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andante and Variations in G major, K.501
Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Justus Frantz.- Mozart: Music for Piano Duet: Justus Frantz, Christoph Eschenbach.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Othello Overture, Op.93
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.- DG.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in C major for two violins, RV505
Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Percy Grainger
Marching Song of Democracy
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- CHANDOS.
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She moved through the fair
Performer: Edin Karamoazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl.- DECCA.
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AL MURRAY'S CHOICE NO.1
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Leonard Bernstein
America (West Side Story)
Singer: Rita Moreno. Singer: George Chakiris. Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Johnny Green.- CBS.
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AL MURRAY'S CHOICE NO.2
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Steve Reich
Different Trains (America, Before the War)
Ensemble: Kronos Quartet.- NONESUCH.
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Susan H. Dyer
Florida Night Song
Performer: Jascha Heifetz, violin. Performer: Emmanuel Bay, piano. -
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Improvisation on Pathetique
Performer: Stefan Grapelli, violin. Performer: Django Reinhardt, guitar. -
Music in Time: Romantic
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Richard Wagner
Tannhauser: Overture and Venusberg Music
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- MERCURY.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.38 in D major 'Prague', K.504
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- EMI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Fatum, op. 77
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov. -
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George Gershwin
Love walked in
Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- Saint-Sa毛ns/Ravel/Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue: Benjamin Grosvenor.
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Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Mahler
Das Lied von der Erde: Der Abschied
Sarah Connolly (mezzo-soprano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)
LPO
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Trad.
She moved through the fair
Andreas Scholl (counter-tenor)
Edin Karamoazov (lute)
Stacey Shames (harp)
DECCA
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