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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Hall

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite French Operetta; Music in Time: English Renaissance viol music; Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, conducting Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 2.

9am
My favourite... French operetta. Rob taps into his lighter musical side as he selects highlights from five of his favourite operettas. Rob chooses music by the grandfather of operetta, Jacques Offenbach, as well as works by composers including Andr茅 Messager and Charles Lecocq.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest is the playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall. Lee's Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film Billy Elliot went on to become a Tony and Olivier Award-winning stage musical. He has also written plays including the critically acclaimed The Pitmen Painters, and has adapted works ranging from Shakespeare in Love to Brecht's Mother Courage and Alan Warner's The Sopranos. Lee will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob, every day at 10am.

10:30
Rob places Music in Time as he explores the place of the viol in English Renaissance music. It was introduced to England in the early 16th century, early in the reign of Henry VIII where composers including Taverner and Tye made the most of its expressive and resonant qualities.

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Rozhdestvensky made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre when he was just twenty years old, conducting Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. He went on to become chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, as well as the conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra before leaving Soviet Russia in the 1970s for Stockholm and then London. There he took the role of chief conductor of the 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob plays a selection of Rozhdestvensky's recordings, covering a wide range of Romantic repertoire from Glazunov to Prokofiev.

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2 in C minor Op. 17 'Little Russian'
USSR Ministry of Culture Large Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Tue 22 Mar 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Jacques Offenbach

    Ga卯t茅 parisienne (Overture)

    Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Max Steiner

    Victory; Trojan Horse (Helen of Troy)

    Orchestra: Studio Orchestra. Conductor: Elmer Bernstein.
    • Film Score Monthly.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 14 in C major, H XVI 3

    Performer: John McCabe.
    • DECCA.
  • MY FAVOURITE...FRENCH OPERETTA

    • Jacques Offenbach

      Duo (La belle Helene, Act II)

      Singer: Jane Rhodes. Singer: Bernard Plantey. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Manuel Rosenthal.
      • DECCA.
  • Michael Praetorius

    Bransles de Poictu

    Orchestra: Capriccio Stravagante. Conductor: Skip Semp茅.
    • Terpsichore.
    • Paradizo.
    • 11.
  • Maurice Ravel

    The conversation of Beauty and the Beast (Mother Goose Suite)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • EMI.
  • Reinhold Moritzevich Gli猫re

    Impromptu

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    2 Rhapsodies Op.79 (no.1 in B minor)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    'O dolcissimi lumi' to end of act (L'Orfeo, Act IV)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Singer: Patrizia Ciofi. Choir: European Voices. Ensemble: Les Sacqueboutiers. Ensemble: Le Concert d鈥橝str茅e. Director: Emmanuelle Ha茂m.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herzlich tut mich verlangen, BWV727 (chorale prelude for organ)

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • HMV Classics.
  • LEE HALL'S CHOICE

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      III. Molto Adagio (String Quartet in A minor, Op.132)

      Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
      • DG.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    I. Explorer (3 Portraits from The England of Elizabeth)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • RCA.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • John Taverner

      In nomine a 4

      Ensemble: Fretwork.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • William Byrd

      Ye sacred muses

      Singer: Robin Blaze. Ensemble: Concordia.
      • HYPERION.
    • Henry Purcell

      Fantasia No 7 in C minor

      Ensemble: Fretwork.
      • VIRGIN VERITAS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Fair Melusina Op.32

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D major, K 29

    Performer: George Malcolm.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17 'Little Russian'

      Orchestra: Large Symphony Orchestra of the Ministry of Culture, Russian Federation. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
      • ALTO.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet Op.43

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.

Mystery Person

Answer: Orpheus (legendary musician)

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  • Tue 22 Mar 2016 09:00

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