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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Julian Glover

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Vladimir Horowitz; Liszt: From the Cradle to the Grave; Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Brahms's Trio.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Vladimir Horowitz'. Rob makes the case for the Russian-American pianist as one of the 20th century's great musical interpreters. Throughout the week he showcases Horowitz's ability to transform Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas into finely crafted piano miniatures, his individual approach to Chopin's mazurkas, his colourful interpretations of Czerny, the genius of his transcriptions and arrangements of Liszt and his understanding of Scriabin's mysterious muse.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards

10am
Rob's guest this week is Julian Glover. Julian started out as a classically trained stage actor who performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He achieved Hollywood fame in the 1980s when he acted in the Star Wars franchise, was the Bond villain to Roger Moore's 007 in For Your Eyes Only and starred in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Harrison Ford. His credits range from guest appearances in Doctor Who to providing the voice of the giant spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. More recently he has portrayed Grand Maester Pycelle in the hugely popular Game of Thrones. Julian will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Rob places Music in Time as he investigates how the arch-Romantic Liszt pared down his extravagant style in his last tone poem, From the Cradle to the Grave, anticipating the austerity of fellow-Hungarian Bart贸k.

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the master violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann. A thoroughly modern virtuoso - brilliant, intelligent and thoughtful in works such as Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No.1 and Britten's Concerto in D minor - Zimmermann is also responsive to the pathos of Mozart's Sonata in E minor, the autumnal strains of Brahms's Horn Trio and the Gallic elegance of Saint-Sa毛ns's Third Concerto.

Brahms
Trio in E flat for Piano, Violin and Horn, Op.40
Wolfgang Sawallisch, piano
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Marie Luise Neunecker, horn.

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Thu 29 Oct 2015 09:00
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Music Played

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Etude in F major, Op.72 No.6

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No 3

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.

  • Theodoro Cyro de Souza

    Ascendit Deus

    Choir: Ex Cathedra Choir. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.
    • Hyperion.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

    • Franz Liszt

      Hungarian Rhapsody No 19 in D minor

      Music Arranger: Vladimir Horowitz. Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

  • Josef Strauss

    Music of the Spheres, Op 235

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • SONY.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dreams, Op 6

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • ONYX.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)

    Ensemble: Sarband. Ensemble: Concerto K枚ln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt. Director: Vladimir Ivanoff.
    • ARCHIV.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Benjamin Britten

      Dirge (Serenade for tenor, horn and strings)

      Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
      • DECCA.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Benjamin Britten

      The Death of Nicholas (Saint Nicholas)

      Performer: Catherine Edwards. Performer: Jonathan Higgins. Singer: Allan Clayton. Choir: Choristers of Temple Church. Choir: Holst Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
      • HYPERION.

  • Henry Purcell

    My beloved spake (Z.28)

    Orchestra: The King鈥檚 Consort. Conductor: Robert King. Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Charles Daniels. Singer: Robert Evans. Singer: Michael George. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford.
    • Purcell: Complete Anthems and Services 1: Robert King.
    • Hyperion.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Franz Liszt

      Von der Wiege bis zum Grabe (From the Cradle to the Grave), S107

      Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Georg Solti.
      • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Incidental music to Rosamunde; Overture 鈥楧ie Zauberharfe鈥�

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.

  • Anon

    Evening Bells

    Performer: Don Cossack Choir.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN

    • Johannes Brahms

      Trio in E flat major for piano, violin and horn, Op.40

      Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch. Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Performer: Marie Luise Neunecker.
      • EMI.

  • Bacewicz

    Piano Quintet No 1 (version for chamber orchestra)

    Performer: Ewa Kupiec. Orchestra: Capella Bydgostiensis Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Mariusz Smolij.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Presto in B flat for piano

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Mozart
Overture (reconstructed) to Die Entf眉hrung aus dem Serail
Sarband
Concerto Koln
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