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Friday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb

With Rob Cowan. Musical challenge; Music on Location: Delius: Paris: The Song of a Great City; Artist of the Week: Reinhard Goebel, featured in Telemann's Ouverture-Suite in D.

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Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain. 

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Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you identify the piece of music, played in reverse?

10am
Rob's guest this week is the historian and broadcaster, Suzannah Lipscomb. Suzannah's interest in history started at home growing up near the site of one of Henry VIII's former palaces, Nonsuch, and since then she's become a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities, London. She's written a number of books about Henry VIII and Tudor England, and has specialised in the study of women in this period. She's also a frequent broadcaster: most recently appearing on our screens in The Great Fire: In Real Time, she also co-wrote and co-presented Henry VIII and his Six Wives for Channel 5, and wrote and presented Hidden Killers for 91Èȱ¬ Four. As well as discussing her work as an historian, Suzannah shares her passion for classical music, choosing a selection of her favourite works.

10.30am
Music on Location: Paris
Rob explores Delius's impressionist, nocturnal portrait of Paris, a city which he described as "mysterious", and a "city of pleasures".

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and violinist, Reinhard Goebel. In 1973 Goebel founded Musica Antiqua Köln, an instrumental ensemble initially made up of his fellow students at the Cologne Conservatory. Together they became one of the leading exponents of Baroque performance practice and have played a significant role in increasing the profile of Baroque composers such as Telemann, Heinichen, Biber and the wider Bach dynasty. Goebel usually led the group from the violin, but an unexpected focal dystonia in his left hand brought his solo career to an end and forced him to bow with the other arm. In 2000 he gave up the violin entirely and focused on conducting, but he is still Professor of Baroque Violin at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. This week Rob's chosen a selection of Goebel's recordings with Musica Antiqua Köln: their highly-acclaimed account of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3, a motet by Heinrich Bach (J.S. Bach's great-uncle), part of Telemann's Tafelmusik, Biber's programmatic Battalia and one of Heinichen's Dresden Concerti.

Telemann
Ouverture-Suite in D major (Tafelmusik, 2nd Production)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (violin/director)

Canada 150
Rob marks the 150th anniversary of Canada's birth as a country by sharing a favourite recording by a classic Canadian artist.

Verdi
Niun mi tema (Otello, Act 4)
John Vickers (tenor), Otello
Rome Opera Orchestra
Tullio Serafin (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla Turca (Piano Sonata in A major K.331)

    Music Arranger: Arcadi Volodos. Performer: Yuja Wang.
    • DG.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my Prayer

    Singer: Alastair Roberts. Performer: Peter White. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: George Guest.
    • DECCA.
  • Albert Roussel

    Divertissement Op.6

    Ensemble: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER.
  • Franz Schubert

    Ballet in G major (Rosamunde - Incidental music)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Günter Wand.
    • RCA.
  • Cristóbal de Morales

    Parce mihi Domine

    Music Arranger: Jan Garbarek. Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble. Performer: Jan Garbarek.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: REINHARD GOEBEL

    • Leopold Mozart

      Concerto for two horns in E flat major

      Performer: Carsten Duffin. Performer: Philipp Römer. Orchestra: Bayerische Kammerphilharmonie. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
      • L. Mozart: Orchestral Works.
      • Oehms Classics.
      • 10.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri, Op 70

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
  • SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'S first CHOICE

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Jazz Suite no.2 (Waltz 2)

      Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
      • DECCA.
  • SUZANNAH LIPSCOMB'S second CHOICE

    • Franz Schubert

      Ständchen (Schwanengesang, D.957)

      Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
      • DG.
  • Rob's Choice for Suzannah Lipscomb

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Seasons, Op.37a: X. 'Autumn Song'

      Performer: Юрий Егоров.
      • ETCETERA.
  • Franz Schmidt

    Notre Dame (Act 1 Intermezzo)

    Orchestra: Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • Pentatone.
  • Music on Location: Paris

    • Frederick Delius

      Paris - The Song of a Great City

      Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
      • EMI.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Full fathom five (Three Shakespeare Songs, No 1)

    Choir: The Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.
    • Holst & Vaughan Williams - Choral Music.
    • Chandos.
    • 15.
  • Henry Purcell

    Purcellian tune

    Music Arranger: Judith Steenbrink. Ensemble: Holland Baroque Society. Conductor: Eric Vloeimans.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: REINHARD GOEBEL

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Tafelmusik, Production II: Ouverture-Suite in D major

      Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
      • DG.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Otello, Act IV: "Niun mi tema"

    Singer: Jon Vickers. Singer: Florindo Andreolli. Singer: Ferruccio Mazzoli. Singer: Franco Calabrese. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • RCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat, K.207

    Performer: Vilde Frang. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.
    • WARNER.

Musical Challenge: Recording Rewind

The piece of music played in reverse was Elgar's Sospiri

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