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Friday - Rob Cowan with Lee Hall

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite French Operetta; Schubert: Fantasia in F minor; Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, featured conducting Prokofiev's Symphony No 7.

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 challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.

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. The spotlight is on large-scale Romantic music brought into the drawing room - Schubert's four-hand piano duet, the Fantasia in F minor.

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.

Prokofiev
Symphony No.7 in C sharp minor Op.131
USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Fri 25 Mar 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    Ciboulette - Act 2: 'Nous avons fait un beau voyage' (Duparquet, Ciboulette)

    Singer: Florence Raynal. Singer: Michel Trempont. Orchestra: Light Symphony Orchestra of Monte Carlo. Conductor: Paul Bonneau.
    • Les Plus Belles Op茅rettes.
    • DECCA.
    • 013.
  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Tenebrae Responsaries for Good Friday (Omnes amici mei)

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Outhere.
  • Arturo M谩rquez

    Danz贸n no.2

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C sharp minor Op.25 no.7

    Music Arranger: Auguste Franchomme. Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Inon Barnatan.
    • DECCA.
  • George Enescu

    Concert Overture on Popular Romanian Themes, Op 32

    Orchestra: Tampere Filharmonia. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Pavan 脿 5

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Peccantem me quotidie

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • CORO.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Lamed (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 4.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Lamed (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 5.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Aleph (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)

    Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
    • Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
    • Gimell.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No.7 in C sharp minor, Op.131

    Orchestra: USSR State Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • MELODIYA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in E flat major 'Les Adieux', op.81a

    Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels.
    • DG.

Mystery Place

Answer: The Sistine Chapel

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