Tuesday - Rob Cowan, plus Sarah Walker with John Lithgow
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Operetta; Musical challenge; Artist of the week: the Vienna Philharmonic, featured in Mozart's Bassoon Concerto in B flat, K191.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... operetta'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for this sometimes overlooked genre, showcasing some personal favourites that demonstrate the many delights of light opera: charm, wonderful tunes, great singers and quirky and amusing storylines. You may not hear operetta in quite the same way again!
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?
10am
This week Sarah interviews the stage and screen actor John Lithgow. John has appeared on Broadway 22 times, winning Tony Awards for The Changing Room and Sweet Smell of Success. He received back-to-back Academy Award nominations for The World According to Garp and Terms of Endearment and is well known for his Emmy Award-winning performances in the television series 3rd Rock From the Sun and Dexter. Most recently he has starred in Love is Strange, Interstellar and The Homesman. John shares a selection of his favourite classical music and tells Sarah about catching the acting bug performing in Gilbert and Sullivan, how he appeared as the elephant in a ballet of Saint-Sa毛ns's Carnival of the Animals and why Yo-Yo Ma once gave him a private performance of Bach.
10.30am
Vintage Proms 1915 - music inspired by a Prom from 100 years ago
During the 大象传媒 Proms 2015 Rob takes a look at the Proms season from a century ago and plays music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Rob showcases highlights including two Elgar rarities, Carillon and Polonia, Parry's Overture to an Unwritten Tragedy and Mendelssohn's Rondo brillant in E flat major, all of which received their Proms premiere during the 1915 season.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is one of the world's finest orchestras, the Vienna Philharmonic. Since its foundation in 1842 the orchestra has earned a reputation as one of the greats, making top recordings stretching back to 1905 and performing over a hundred concerts every season. Throughout the week Rob shares the Vienna Philharmonic's interpretations of works by composers including Mozart, Beethoven and Strauss, under the batons of maestros such as Karl B枚hm, Claudio Abbado and Fritz Reiner.
Including:
Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B flat major K191
Dietmar Zeman (bassoon)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl B枚hm (conductor).
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Music Played
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George Gershwin
When You Want 'Em, You Can't Get 'Em, When You've Got 'Em, You Don't Want 'Em"
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Roussel
Divertissement Op.6
Ensemble: Les Vents Francais. -
5 REASONS TO LOVE...OPERETTA
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Franz Leh谩r
Vilja-Lied (The Merry Widow)
Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Choir: Philharmonia Chorus. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lovro von Mata膷i膰.- EMI.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Fair Melusina
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, Zagen BWV12 - Sinfonia
Orchestra: Academia Francoise Laserre. -
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Gerald Finzi
Romance for String Orchestra
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult. -
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Georg Muffat
Concerto grosso [1701] no. 12 in G major "Propitia sydera", 5th mvt; Ciacona...
Ensemble: The Brandenburg Consort. Conductor: Roy Goodman.- Rondeaux Royaux: The Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman.
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Herbert Howells
Take him, earth, for cherishing
Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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Novacek
Perpetuum Mobile Op.5 No.4
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Virtuosi. Performer: Vag Papian. -
JOHN LITHGOW'S CHOICE NO.1
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Solo Cello Suite no.1 in G major BWV.1007 (Prelude)
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.- CBS.
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JOHN LITHGOW'S CHOICE NO.2
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Franz Schubert
Winterreise (songs 12, 13, 14 & 15)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Ian Bostridge.- EMI.
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JOHN LITHGOW'S CHOICE NO.3
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
The Elephant (The Carnival of the Animals)
Performer: Double Bassist of the Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Anda G茅za. Performer: B茅la S铆ki. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.- TESTAMENT.
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Edward Elgar
Carillon, Op.75
Narrator: Simon Callow. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.- SOMM.
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Edward Elgar
Polonia, Op.76
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- CHANDOS.
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Nocturne Op.37 No.1
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PROMS ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: VIENNA PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Bassoon Concerto in B flat major K.191
Featured Artist: Dietmar Zeman. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Karl Bohm.
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Betty Olivero
En la mar hai una torre
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for violin and oboe BWV1060
Featured Artist: Janine Jansen. Featured Artist: Ram贸n Ortega Quero. Ensemble: Ensemble. -
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Edward Elgar
Carillon
Narrator: Henry Ainsley. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Elgar.
Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Tchaikovsky
IV. Finale (Symphony No.6 鈥楶athetique鈥�)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
PENTATONE
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Howells
Take Him, Earth, For Cherishing
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor)
SIGNUM
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