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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan's guest in Breakfast's Comedy Classics series is actor Simon Jones, who talks about how he enjoys listening to classical music and chooses his five favourite pieces.

Rob Cowan presents Breakfast and talks to special Comedy Classics guest - Simon Jones. With an impressive list of theatre credits to his name, Simon Jones is probably best known for playing the role of Arthur Dent in both the Radio and original TV series of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a role which he reprieved for a later series on Radio 4 - Life, The Universe and Everything - in 2004. It is said that the author Douglas Adams wrote the part with Jones in mind. He also appeared in Blackadder and as "Bridey" in the 1980s TV dramatisation of Brideshead Revisited. He has several films under his belt and, more recently, he has become a theatre director and has done extensive work in the field of audio book narrating. He will be talking to Rob Cowan about how he enjoys listening to classical music and choosing his five favourite pieces.

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Mon 25 Apr 2011 07:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - Jupiter, the bringer of jollity

    Performer: Halle Orchestra Performer: Mark Elder (conductor)

    • HELIOS CDH55350.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante for flute and orchestra (K.315) in C major

    Performer: Aurele Nicolet (flute) Performer: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Performer: David Zinman (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 426 074-2.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Ave Maria a 8

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (director)

    • CORO COR16073.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Trio (Op.1`1) in E flat major - Finale (Presto)

    Performer: Beaux Arts Trio

    • PHILIPS 468 411-2.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Symphonic dances (Op.64) - No. 2 - Allegretto grazioso

    Performer: Ulster Orchestra Performer: Vernon Handley (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8524.

  • Henry Purcell

    O! fair Cedaria, hide those eyes

    Performer: Barbara Bonney (soprano) Performer: The King's Consort

    • HYPERION CDS 44161-3.

  • Johann Strauss

    Voices of spring - waltz

    Performer: SWR SO Baden-Baden & Freiburg Performer: Michael Gielen (conductor)

    • HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93.057.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Bamboula, Op.2

    Performer: Amiram Rigai (piano)

    • SMITHSONIAN FOLKWAYS CD SF40803.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartet for strings (D.703) - Allegro assai (Quartettsatz)

    Performer: Takacs Quartet

    • DECCA 436 324-2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle (D.550)

    Performer: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone) Performer: Gerald Moore (piano)

    • DG 437 225-2.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sheherazade (Op.35) - The Sea and Sinbad's ship

    Performer: Samuel Magad (violin) Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

    • ERATO 2564 69452-9.

  • George Gershwin

    The Man I love

    Arranger: Grainger Performer: Daniel Adni (piano)

    • EMI 9 68950 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata 66 "Erfreut euch, ihr Herzen"

    Performer: Bernhard Landauer (alto) Performer: Christoph Pr茅gardien (tenor) Performer: Klaus Mertens (bass) Performer: Amsterdam Baroque Choir & Orchestra Performer: Ton Koopman (conductor)

    • ERATO 3984-27315-2.

  • Comedy Classics - Simon Jones' choices

    • Alexander Borodin

      Polovtsian dances from 'Prince Igor'

      Performer: Bavarian Radio Chorus & Orchestra Performer: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 412 552-2.

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Adagio in G minor (compl. Giazotto)

      Performer: Consort of London Performer: Robert Clark (director)

      • COLLINS CLASSICS EC10172.

    • William Walton

      Crown Imperial

      Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.

      Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Roger Norrington (conductor)

      • DECCA 473 007-2.

    • Michael William Balfe

      The Bohemian girl - Act 2; I dreamt I dwelt in marble halls (Arline's aria)

      Performer: El墨na Garan膷a Performer: Orchestre Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai Performer: Karel Mark Chichon (conductor)

      • DG 477 8776.

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Piano concerto No. 2 (Op.18) in C minor - Adagio sostenuto

      Performer: Yuja Wang (piano) Performer: Mahler Chamber Orchestra Performer: Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 477 9308.

Broadcast

  • Mon 25 Apr 2011 07:00
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