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Friday - Rob Cowan with Jessica Hynes

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Impromptus; Music in Time: Pachelbel's Musikalische Ergotzung; Proms Artist: Paul Watkins (cello), in Martinu: Variations on a Slovak Folksong.

9:00am
My Favourite... Impromptus. This week Rob shares a selection of his favourite impromptus, works that are based on improvisation and impulse. The line-up includes Schubert's Impromptu in G flat, performed by Alfred Brendel, Scriabin's Impromptu Op.14 No.1 with Klara Min and Bennett's Five Impromptus for guitar featuring Craig Ogden.

9:30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the BAFTA award winning actress and writer Jessica Hynes. Jessica was one of the creators and stars of the popular British sitcom Spaced, and is well known for her other comic roles including Cheryl in The Royle Family and Siobhan in the Olympics backroom comedy Twenty Twelve, and the 成人快手 parody W1A. Jessica will be talking about her comedy writing and her acting roles, and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by John Ireland, Marcel Tournier and Will Todd, every day at 10am.

10:30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time, heading back to the Baroque era with music by Pachelbel, who is known almost exclusively for his famous canon. Rob explores Pachelbel's output further, looking in particular at his chamber music collection, Musikalische Erg枚tzung - 'Musical Delight'.

10:45am
Rob's Proms artist of the day is the cellist Paul Watkins, who will be taking to the stage in tonight's Prom to premiere his composer-pianist brother Huw Watkins' Cello Concerto. This morning Rob features both brothers in a recording of Martinu's Variations on a Slovak Folksong. Having worked with the Nash Ensemble and the Emerson Quartet, Paul, like Huw, is a seasoned chamber player: both make the very most of Martinu's engaging set of Variations.

Martinu
Variations on a Slovak Folksong
Paul Watkins (cello)
Huw Watkins (piano).

2 hours

Music Played

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    A Lobster Falls in Love with a Pearl (On Tourne)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Supraphon.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Canzonetta, Op.19

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.
  • MY FAVOURITE...IMPROMPTUS

    • Richard Rodney Bennett

      Five Impromptus

      Performer: Craig Ogden.
      • NIMBUS.
  • George Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No.1

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Constantin Silvestri.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Concerto in G major, BWV.592

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No.8 in E Minor, Op.59, No.2: II. Adagio molto e mesto

    Music Arranger: Brett Dean. Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Brett Dean.
    • BIS.
  • Ruggero Leoncavallo

    Recitar!... Vesti la giubba'(I Pagliacci)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Giuseppe Patan猫.
    • DECCA.
  • JESSICA HYNES' CHOICE NO.1

    • Erik Satie

      Gnossienne No.1

      Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
      • BIS.
  • JESSICA HYNES' CHOICE NO.2

    • Trad.

      Ganesha

      Performer: Alice Coltrane. Performer: Sita Coltrane.
      • WARNER.
  • Edward Elgar

    Speak, music, Op 41 No 2

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Alice Coote.
    • The Power of Love, An English Songbook: Alice Coote/Graham Johnson.
    • Hyperion.
  • Music in Time: Baroque

    • Johann Pachelbel

      Suite no.6 in B flat

      Orchestra: Gli Incogniti. Director: Amandine Beyer.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Regina caeli

    Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Andrew van der Beek. Performer: James O鈥橠onnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HELIOS.
  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE DAY: Paul Watkins

    • Bohuslav Martin暖

      Variations on a Slovak Folksong

      Performer: Paul Watkins. Performer: Huw Watkins.
      • CHANDOS.
  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga

    Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky. Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • The Mravinsky Legacy, Volume 2.
    • Olympia.
    • 003.

Classical Roots

Answer: Queen's 'It's a Hard Life' is based on 'Recitar... Vesti la giubba' from Leoncavallo's Pagliacci

The music played:

Freddie Mercury
'It鈥檚 a Hard Life'
Queen
PARLOPHONE

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