Friday - Rob Cowan with Julian Glover
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Vladimir Horowitz; Reich: Drumming; Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Britten's Violin Concerto in D minor.
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: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.
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 presents a Modern work from the early 1970s. The American composer Steve Reich was inspired to write Drumming after a trip to Ghana. An example of phased music, the repeated rhythms coincide and collide with hypnotic regularity.
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.
Britten
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.15
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Manfred Honeck, conductor.
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Music Played
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Steve Reich
Typing Music Repeat (The Cave, Act 1)
Ensemble: Steve Reid Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- NONESUCH.
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5 Reasons to Love... Vladimir Horowitz
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Alexander Scriabin
3 Etudes from Op.42, Nos. 3-5
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.- SONY.
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Anton Bruckner
Virga Jesse Floruit, WAB 52
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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Maurice Ravel
Sheherazade, ouverture de feerie
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- SONY.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
12 Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder Weibchen' for piano and cello, Op.66
Performer: Jos van Immerseel. Performer: Anner Bylsma.- SONY.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Passacaglia from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV.881
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.- DECCA.
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Julian Glover's Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in D minor for two violins, BWV 1043 (3rd mvt)
Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Igor Oistrakh. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Goossens.- DG.
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Rob's Choice for Julian Glover
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Arvo P盲rt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Orchestra: Staatsorchester Stuttgart. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.- ECM.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Overture in F
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. -
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Steve Reich
Drumming (Part 4)
Ensemble: Steve Reich.- NONESUCH.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
4 Songs Without Words, Op 8
Performer: Matthias Kirschnereit. -
Artist of the Week: Frank Peter Zimmermann
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Benjamin Britten
Violin Concerto in D minor, Op.15
Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Manfred Honeck.- SONY.
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Robert Schumann
Humoreske, Op 20
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz, piano.
Classical Roots
The music played:
J.S Bach (arr. Ward Swingle)
Prelude in F minor (Well-Tempered Clavier Book II)
Swingle Singers
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