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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Deborah Moggach

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Cello Miniatures; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Andris Nelsons, featured conducting Stravinsky's The Firebird.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... cello miniatures'. Rob chooses a selection of bite-sized treats for cello that showcase all that the instrument has to offer, from its singing voice and mellow quality to a sense of gutsy attack and varied range of colour and tone. Throughout the week Rob shares his favourite compact works for the cello, with gems by composers including Rachmaninov, Saint-Sa毛ns and Mendelssohn.

9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.

10am
Rob's guest is author Deborah Moggach, who wrote the book behind the hit movie The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel, and whose novel Tulip Fever is currently being filmed. Her screenplays for TV include adaptations of Pride and Prejudice (starring Keira Knightley) and the Diary of Anne Frank, plus dramas Seesaw and Stolen. She talks about the challenges of adapting novels for the screen and how she constructs a story, and her music choices range from Mozart and Shostakovich to Gershwin and Verdi.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Latvian conductor Andris Nelsons. In anticipation of Nelsons' performance of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony at the Proms this weekend, Rob shares some major recordings by this exciting young conductor, who is currently in his first season as music director of the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob guides you through Nelsons' interpretations of works by composers ranging from Shostakovich and Stravinsky to Strauss and Brahms.

Stravinsky
Firebird (complete)
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor).

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Thu 16 Jul 2015 09:00
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Music Played

  • Manuel de Falla

    Ritual Fire Dance (El amor brujo)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • CBS.

  • 5 Reasons to love... Cello Miniatures

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Allegro appassionato, Op 43

      Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
      • HYPERION.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Symphony in G major, Wq. deest. Chen G3

    Orchestra: L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.
    • CPO.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Khovanshchina: Act IV - Dance of the Persian Slaves

    Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti. Orchestra: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.
    • MERCURY.

  • Annie Fortescue Harrison

    In the Gloaming

    Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • HYPERION.

  • Joseph Martin Kraus

    Olympie: Overture

    Orchestra: l鈥檃rte del mondo. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • PHOENIX EDITION.

  • Hubert Parry

    Songs of Farewell: Lord, let me know mine end

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM WINGED LION.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Feuillet inedit No. 4

    Performer: Bernard Wisson. Performer: Thomas Bloch.
    • NAXOS.

  • Deborah Moggach's Choice No. 1

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      'Soave sia il vento' (trio) - Cosi Fan Tutte, Act I

      Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Singer: Paul Sch枚ffler. Singer: Christa Ludwig. Conductor: Karl B枚hm. Singer: Lisa della Casa.
      • DECCA.

  • Deborah Moggach's Choice No. 2

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Allegretto - Andante (Finale of String Quartet No.10 in A flat, Op.118)

      Ensemble: Fitzwilliam String Quartet.
      • LONDON.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Larghetto for horn and orchestra

    Featured Artist: Hermann Baumann. Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Masur.

  • Samuel Barber

    Violin Concerto

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: David Robertson.
    • CANARY CLASSICS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in C major Op.51`1

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Beethoven: Piano concerto no.5 etc: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Artist of the Week: Andris Nelsons

    • Igor Stravinsky

      The Firebird (conclusion)

      Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
      • ORFEO.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Blumine (2nd movement from Symphony no.1, original version)

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SFS MEDIA.

Mystery Object

The Mystery Object was the Ondes Martenot

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