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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Jane Lapotaire

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite British Light Music; Music in Time: Ockeghem: Requiem; Artist of the Week: Zoltan Kocsis (piano) in Wagner: Feierlicher Marsch (Parsifal).

9am
My favourite... British light music. Throughout the week Rob shares some of his favourite light music by British composers. He features musical treats including Ronald Binge's classic Elizabethan Serenade, Geoffrey Toye's waltz The Haunted Ballroom, Charles Ancliffe's Nights of Gladness and Elgar's Chanson de Matin, plus there's a trip to Knightsbridge with the march from Eric Coates's London Suite.

9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?

10am
Rob's guest this week, sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at 10am, is the actress Jane Lapotaire. Jane first achieved stardom with her Tony-award winning portrayal of the French songstress 脡dith Piaf. She is known for taking on great tragic roles and throughout her career has played leading ladies ranging from Cleopatra and Lady Macbeth to Joan of Arc, Marie Curie and opera star Maria Callas. Throughout the week Jane talks about her favourite acting parts, remembers working alongside Laurence Olivier as a young actress and explains how classical music helped her to recover from a devastating brain injury.

10.30am
Rob places Music in Time as he shares the first polyphonic setting of the requiem, by the Renaissance composer Ockeghem.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the renowned pianist, conductor, composer, and founding member of the Budapest Festival Orchestra, Zoltan Kocsis. Throughout the week Rob features some of Kocsis's top records, including his Gramophone Instrumental Award winning interpretation of Debussy's Images, a recording of him as soloist in Mozart's popular Piano Concerto No. 23, where he's joined by the Budapest Franz Liszt Chamber Orchestra, and as conductor in a pair of works by his compatriot, Bartok (Dance Suite and Rhapsody No. 2), as well as in solo piano music by Wagner and Rachmaninov.

Wagner trans. Liszt
Parsifal: Feierlicher Marsch
Zoltan Kocsis (piano).

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Thu 21 Jan 2016 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Le petit n猫gre

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • George Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No.1

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

  • Darius Milhaud

    Scaramouche

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.
    • EMI.

  • My favourite... British light music

    • Eric Coates

      London Suite: III. Knightsbridge (March)

      Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Thomas Tomkins

    Ut-re-mi-fa-so-la

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Tapiola

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • FINLANDIA.

  • Trad.

    Down by the Salley Gardens

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Performer: Graham Johnson.

  • Jane Lapotaire's Choice No. 1

    • trad.

      Epstein Hora

      Performer: Margot Leverett. Performer: Klesmer Mountain Boys.
      • TRADITIONAL CROSSROADS.

  • Jane Lapotaire's Choice No. 2

    • Johannes Brahms

      Andantino (Clarinet Quintet in B minor, Op.115)

      Performer: Karl Leister. Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.
      • DG.

  • Music in Time: Renaissance

    • Johannes Ockeghem

      Graduale; Tractus (Missa pro defunctis)

      Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
      • DACAPO.

  • Sluka

    Suite in modo classic per arpa solo

    Performer: Katerina Englichova.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture

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

  • Artist of the Week: Zoltan Kocsis

    • Richard Wagner

      Feierlicher Marsch (Parsifal)

      Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Amfortas! Die Wunde! (Parsifal)

    Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Jonas Kaufmann, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Claudio Abbado.
    • DECCA.
    • 9.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Sonata for Piano and Violin in G major, Op. 96

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Der Schneemann (Prelude; Serenade)

    Performer: Heinz Haunold. Orchestrator: Alexander von Zemlinsky. Orchestra: Bruckner Orchestra of Linz. Conductor: Caspar Richter.
    • Korngold Orchestral Music.
    • ASV.
    • 8-9.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Britten
Down by the Salley Gardens
Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano)
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Saint-Saens
The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)
Steven Isserlis (cello)
Dudley Moore and Michael Tilson Thomas (pianos)
RCA

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  • Thu 21 Jan 2016 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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