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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Chris Addison

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Tintagel and Baxl; Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado, featured conducting Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No 1.

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10am
Rob's guest this week is the comedian, writer and actor, Chris Addison. Chris is well known for appearances in鈥'The Thick of It', 'Mock the Week', 'Have I Got News for You'鈥痑nd鈥'Live at the Apollo',鈥痑s well as producing and directing the American TV series '鈥疺eep'.鈥疕e also co-wrote and starred in the political satire鈥'The Department'鈥痜or 成人快手 Radio 4. Chris's passion for classical music started at a young age, and with his school choir he made recordings with the Hall茅 Orchestra. More recently, he appeared in a production of Chabrier's opera 'L'脡toile' at the Royal Opera House. As well as discussing his comedy and acting work, Chris shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week by composers including Chabrier, Britten and M谩rquez.

10.30am
Music on Location: Tintagel
Rob explores music connected with Tintagel in Cornwall composed by Arnold Bax. Bax visited Tintagel in the Summer of 1917, taking in the ruined medieval castle, the cliffs and the sea, and was inspired to write a symphonic poem.

Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two interpretations of Robert Schumann's song 'Mondnacht', in performances by two sopranos, Barbara Bonney and Elisabeth Schumann.

11am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Abbado is considered one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century and remains one of the few chosen to be Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. After studying in his native Milan, and later Vienna, he won the Koussevitzky Conducting Competition. He also won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Prize which allowed him to assist Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic. He's held major posts at La Scala, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. After Berlin he founded a number of orchestras: the European Union Youth, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart, which he led until his death in 2014. Abbado will be long remembered for his conducting, but also for his enterprise and his championing of contemporary music. From a vast discography, Rob has chosen to feature Abbado in Beethoven with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bach and Mozart with Orchestra Mozart, Tchaikovsky with the New Philharmonia, and Prokofiev with the London Symphony Orchestra.

J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.1 in F major, BWV1048
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Tue 6 Jun 2017 09:00

Music Played

  • Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      The Creatures of Prometheus Op.43 (Finale)

      Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
      • SONY.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    String Quartet movement in B flat major

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • CRD.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Liturgy of St John Chrysostom: It is meet

    Choir: The National Academic Choir of Ukraine "Dumka". Conductor: Yevhen Savchuk.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Rhapsody No.2 on Breton Songs

    Performer: Andrew-John Smith.
    • HYPERION.
  • Muriel Herbert

    The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.
    • LINN.
  • John Dowland

    Sir Henry Umpton's Funerall

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol, Op.34

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ata煤lfo Argenta.
    • DECCA.
  • Traditional Irish

    Alexander's Hornpipe; Harvest 成人快手

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing. Performer: Frank McGuire.
    • The Celtic Viol 2: Savall/Lawrence-King/McGuire.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 7.
  • Chris Addison's first choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Sonata in F major Op.24 'Spring' (4th mvt)

      Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
      • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
  • Chris Addison's second choice

    • Benjamin Britten

      Spring Symphony (London, to thee)

      Singer: Alison Hagley. Singer: Catherine Robbin. Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Choir: Choristers of Salisbury Cathedral. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • DG.
  • Franz Liszt

    Valse impromptu S.213

    Performer: Jean Muller.
    • Fondamenta.
  • MUSIC ON LOCATION: TINTAGEL, CORNWALL

    • Arnold Bax

      Tintagel

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
      • EMI.
  • DOUBLE TAKE

    • Robert Schumann

      Mondnacht (Liederkreis Op.39)

      Singer: Barbara Bonney. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
      • DECCA.
    • Robert Schumann

      Liederkreis Op.39: No.5 Mondnacht

      Performer: Karl Alwin. Singer: Elisabeth Schumann.
      • EMI.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    The Blue Bird (8 Partsongs Op.119)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Music of the Spheres.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 15.
  • Franz Schubert

    Der M眉ller und der Bach (M眉llerlieder von Franz Schubert)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Arcadi Volodos.
    • SONY.
  • Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F major, BWV 1046

      Performer: Victor Aviat. Performer: Lucas Mac铆as Navarro. Performer: Guido Gualandi. Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart.
      • J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra Mozart, Abbado.
      • Deutsche Grammophon.
      • 1.
  • Albert Roussel

    Symphony No.4 in G, Op.53

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Soci茅t茅 des Concerts du Conservatoire. Conductor: Andr茅 Cluytens.
    • ERATO.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV 425

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.
    • Vivaldi: The Four Seasons: Galfetti/I Barocchisti/Fasolis.
    • Claves.
    • 13.

Musical Challenge: Recording Rewind

The piece played in reverse was Rimsky-Korsakov's Capriccio Espagnol

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