Tuesday - Rob Cowan with James May
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Orchestral Lollipops; Musical Challenge: Relative Values; Riccardo Muti; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: The Art of Fugue (excerpt).
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is journalist and presenter of 成人快手's Top Gear programme, James May.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... orchestral lollipops'. Throughout the week Rob welcomes in the New Year with a selection of orchestral lollipops recalling the tradition of Thomas Beecham's orchestral bons-bons. The San Francisco Symphony conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas play familiar favourites include Rachmaninov's Vocalise, Delius's On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring, Schubert's Entracte No.3 from Rosamunde and Litolff's celebrated Scherzo.
9.30am
Musical challenge: Relative Values
10am
Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am, is James May. Best known as co-presenter of the 成人快手's Top Gear programme, the Renaissance man of motoring takes off his driving gloves and returns to Essential Classics to dig deeper into another of his great passions. A former chorister and occasional flautist, May is a classical music enthusiast with a particular love of the keyboard.
10.30am
This week Rob's featured artist is the eminent Italian conductor Riccardo Muti, whose performances combine probing intelligence and an intense conviction. Rob will feature benchmark recordings throughout the week from his prestigious career with orchestras such as the Berlin Philharmonic, the Chicago Symphony, the Vienna Philharmonic and from his tenure as music director at La Scala, Milan. Not forgetting his memorable New Year's Day Concert of 2000.
11am
Essential Choice
Bach
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080 (extract)
Charles Rosen (piano).
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Music Played
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080; Contrapunctus IX 脿 4 alla Duodecima
Performer: Charles Rosen.- SONY.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in E, K380
Performer: Yuja Wang.- DG.
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5 reasons to love... orchestral miniatures
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Legend, Op 59 No 6
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.- SFS MEDIA.
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Joseph Haydn
Divertimento No 7 in G for 2 horns, 2 violins, baryton, viola, cello and violone
Ensemble: Ricercar Consort. Director: Philippe Pierlot.- RICERCAR.
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Artist of the week: Riccardo Muti
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Sergey Prokofiev
Ivan the Terrible, op.116; The Storming of Kazan
Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Choir: Ambrosian Singers.- EMI.
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Thomas Tallis
Lamentations of Jeremiah II
Ensemble: Tallis Scholars.- GIMELL.
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James May's Choice No. 1
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Thomas Robinson
The Spanish Pavan
Performer: Nigel North.- LINN.
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James May's Choice No. 2
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Walther von der Vogelweide
Weide, Allerest lebe ich mir werde (Palastinalied)
Performer: James Tyler. Singer: James Bowman. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.- DECCA.
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James May's Choice No. 3
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Isaac Alb茅niz
Iberia Suite (El Puerto)
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.- EMI.
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Rameau
La Pantomime (Pieces de clavecin en concerts)
Performer: Pierre Hantai, Skip Sempe. -
Artist of the week: Riccardo Muti
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Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto in D minor, WoO23
Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- EMI.
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Essential Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080; Contrapunctus XIV (Fragment)
Performer: Charles Rosen.- SONY.
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Igor Stravinsky
Capriccio for piano and orchestra
Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet. Orchestra: Sao Paulo Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier. -
Mozart
Symphony No. 17 in G, K.129
Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras. -
Shostakovich
The Gadfly Suite, Op. 97a (arr Steven Verharet)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Ivan Meyemans.
Relative Values
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- Tue 30 Dec 2014 09:00成人快手 Radio 3