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Monday - Rob Cowan with Tony Robinson

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Bach for Advent; Music in Time: The Feast of St Stephen; Artist of the Week: Charles Munch, featured conducting Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet (excerpts).

9am
My favourite... Bach for Advent. Rob explores the range of music that Bach wrote for performance during the season of Advent. From cantatas to chorale preludes, Rob chooses a selection of his favourite choruses, arias and organ works.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: which location is being depicted in this piece of music?

10am
Rob's guest is the actor, comedian, writer and broadcaster, Sir Tony Robinson. Well known for his cunning plans as Baldrick in the hit series Blackadder and for writing and starring in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Sir Tony also presented Time Team for twenty years and has written a series of history books for children. Sir Tony shares some of his favourite pieces of classical music throughout the week, including Faur茅's Dolly Suite, which he remembers as the theme tune to Listen with Mother, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Handel's Messiah, which he sang as a schoolboy.

10.30am
Music: Medieval
Rob places Music in Time. This week, Rob journeys back to the Medieval period to explore music composed for the Feast of St Stephen, commemorating the first Christian martyr.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Charles Munch. Born in Strasbourg when it was still annexed to the German Empire, Munch gained a unique insight into both the French and German repertoire by serving as concertmaster under Wilhelm F眉rtwangler, and Bruno Walter, and from conducting French orchestras including the Lamoureux and Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. As a conductor, Munch brought flair, panache and imagination to a whole host of varied masterpieces including Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet and Stravinsky's Jeu de Cartes, as well as symphonies by Dvorak and Mendelssohn, all of which are featured during the week.

Berlioz
Capulets' Festival and Love Scene (Romeo and Juliet, Op.17)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben: closing chorale

    Ensemble: The Bach Ensemble. Director: Joshua Rifkin.
    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    3 Romances without words

    Performer: Paul Crossley.
    • CRD.

  • My Favourite...Bach at Advent

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Cantata 147, Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben: opening chorus

      Ensemble: Bach鈥怌ollegium Stuttgart. Director: Joshua Rifkin.
      • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.

  • Walter Braunfels

    Variations on an Old French Children's Song

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Wildner.
    • DUTTON.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Cherubic Hymn no.1 (9 Sacred pieces)

    Choir: St. Petersburg Chamber Choir. Conductor: 袧懈泻芯谢邪泄 袣芯褉薪械胁.
    • DG.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    From Bohemia's Woods and Fields (M谩 vlast)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Tony Robinson's Choice No.1

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Berceuse (Dolly Suite, Op.56)

      Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
      • Bizet, Ravel, Faure: Katia & Marielle Labeque.
      • Philips.
      • 13.

  • Tony Robinson's Choice no.2

    • Arthur Sullivan

      Three little maids (The Mikado)

      Singer: Lesley Garrett. Singer: Jean Rigby. Singer: Susan Bullock. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Choir: English National Opera Chorus. Conductor: Peter Robinson.
      • THAT鈥橲 ENTERTAINMENT.

  • Tony Robinson's Choice no.3

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Dance of the Floreadores (Nutcracker Suite)

      Ensemble: Duke Ellington Orchestra.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin: Waltz

    Orchestra: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • MERCURY.
    • 434 305-2.
    • 6.

  • Music in Time: Medieval

    • 尝茅辞苍颈苍

      Alleluya. Video celos apertos

      Composer: P茅rotin. Choir: Orlando Consort. Choir: Choristers of Westminster Cathedral. Director: Robert Harre-Jones.
      • ARCHIV.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Suite pastorale... [from 4 of '10 Pieces pittoresques'], [complete]

    Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Artist of the Week: Charles Munch

    • Hector Berlioz

      Romeo and Juliet, Op.17: Capulet's Festival and Love Scene

      Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch. Choir: Boston Symphony Chorus.
      • RCA.

  • Friedrich der Gro脽e

    Sonata for flute and basso continuo in B minor

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Jonathan Manson.
    • EMI CLASSICS.

  • Peter Cornelius

    Christmas Songs: The Kings

    Performer: Erik Werba. Singer: Irmgard Seefried.
    • DG.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    4 Pieces for Orchestra: Prelude and Scherzo

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • SONY.
    • 88985 30150-2.
    • 4.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Czech nationality

The music played:

Smetana
Czech Dances, Series II: Furiant
Jitka Cechova (piano)
SUPRAPHON

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