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Tuesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau; Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Doyle: Henry V (excerpts).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Vagabond: Bryn Terfel/Malcolm Martineau, DG; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Originally Written For.

10am
Artists of the Week: Beaux Arts Trio

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is film, stage and television actress Olivia Williams. Olivia made her film debut in The Postman, and later won the lead role of Rosemary Cross in Wes Anderson's Rushmore. She then starred as Bruce Willis's wife in the blockbuster The Sixth Sense, a film she would later parody during her brief appearance in British sit-com Spaced. Other film credits include Lucky Break, An Education, Hanna, and Roman Polanski's The Ghost, for which she won several major awards. On TV, Olivia portrayed British author Jane Austen in Miss Austen Regrets, and was cast as Adelle DeWitt in Joss Whedon's Dollhouse. She writes a monthly column in The Telegraph and is currently starring in Ingmar Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage at the St James Theatre, London.

11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that made the Movies:

Patrick Doyle: Henry V (excerpts).

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Music Played

  • John Lanchbery

    Johnny Town-Mouse (The Tales of Beatrix Potter)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery.
    • EMI.

  • George Butterworth

    Is my team ploughing? (A Shropshire Lad)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • DG.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Recorder Sonata in C major, TWV.41:C2

    Performer: Robert Ehrlich. Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: Mark Levy.
    • GLOBE.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hamlet

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • Anon.

    Today's Brainteaser - Originally Written For...?

  • George Frideric Handel

    My heart is inditing, HWV 261

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Simon Preston.
    • Archiv.

  • Geoffrey Bush

    Consort Music

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Naxos.

  • Trad German

    Wohlauf in Gottes schoene Welt

    Performer: Dresdner Kreuzchor. Performer: Lorin Maazel.
    • CAPRICCIO.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in C major, H XV 27

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Iphig茅nie en Aulide (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Richard Wagner. Orchestra: Orchestre Symphonique Bienne. Conductor: Thomas R枚sner.
    • Atma.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major: Allemande

    Performer: Pau Casals.
    • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor, K 466 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff. Conductor: S谩ndor V茅gh. Orchestra: Camerata Salzburg.
    • Decca.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Scherzo-tarantelle

    Performer: Kyung Wha Chung (violin). Performer: Philip Moll (piano).
    • DECCA.

  • Patrick Doyle

    Henry V (excerpts)

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Patrick Doyle

    Henry V (excerpts)

    Singer: Patrick Doyle. Choir: Stephen Hill Singers. Ensemble: Renaissance Theatre Company. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Sweelinck

    Est-ce Mars

    Performer: Mixtura.
    • GENUIN.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia Concertante in B flat for violin, cello, oboe and bassoon

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Performer: T艒ru Yasunaga. Performer: Georg Faust. Performer: Jonathan Kelly. Performer: Stefan Schweigert.
    • EMI.

Today's Brainteaser Answer

Originally Written For: strings, playing pizzicato.

The music played:

Strauss arr. Klaus Wallendorf
Pizzicato Polka
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra Horn Quartet (Stefan Dohr, Sarah Willis, Klaus Wallendorf and Fergus McWilliam)
GEBR. ALEXANDER 4 039967 005885

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