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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Antonia Fraser

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love French Melodies; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Arthur Grumiaux; Rob's Essential Choice: Adam: Giselle (Act 2).

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love...French Melodies'. With performances of songs by composers including Berlioz, Ravel and Duparc from such diverse singers as Rita Streich, Thomas Hampson, Mady Mespl茅, Leopold Simoneau and Sandrine Piau, Rob explores the wide range of expression this genre offers.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the biographer and novelist Lady Antonia Fraser. The author of many acclaimed historical works including Marie Antoinette and Mary Queen of Scots, Lady Fraser will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Byrd, Mozart and Schubert, every day at 10am.

10.30am
This week Rob features the Belgian violinist Arthur Grumiaux. A fine pianist as well as a violinist, Grumiaux was known for his graceful performances and purity of tone. Rob features classic recordings of him in repertoire for which he is especially celebrated, including the solo violin music of Bach, as well as works by Mozart, Brahms, Debussy and Faure.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob explores great ballet scores
Adam
Giselle: Act II
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DECCA 478 0155.

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Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata (Kk.212) in A major

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Queen Mab scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • DECCA.

  • 5 reasons to love... French melodies

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Apr猫s un r锚ve; Clair de lune

      Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: Sandrine Piau.
      • 狈础脧痴贰.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Paris Quartet No. 3

    Performer: Gustav Leonhardt. Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Performer: Barthold Kuijken.
    • SONY.

  • William Byrd

    In resurrectione tua

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Anton Webern

    Im Sommerwind

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Artist of the Week: Arthur Grumiaux

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Romance No. 1

      Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Conductor: Edo de Waart. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Antonia Fraser's Choice No. 1

    • Franz Schubert

      Winterreise: Gefrorne Trane

      Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
      • EMI.

  • Antonia Fraser's Choice No. 2

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      String Quartet in F major, Op. 59 No. 1 鈥楻azumovsky No. 1鈥�: 1st movement

      Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
      • DECCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Komm, Jesu, Komm, BWV 229

    Performer: Ageet Zweistra. Performer: Jan Kleinbussink. Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Artist of the Week: Arthur Grumiaux

    • Johannes Brahms

      Violin Sonata No. 1 in G

      Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Gy枚rgy Seb枚k.
      • PENTATONE.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Galliard 脿 6

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Consorts for viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 20.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in E flat major, K.375

    Ensemble: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

Classical Consequences

Somebody had to let Beethoven know that the audience were applauding as he couldn't hear them.

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