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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Tenor Arias; Music in Time: Mahler: Symphony No 6; Artist of the Week: Daniil Shafran, featured in Beethoven's Cello Sonata No 5, Op 102 No 2.

9am
My favourite... tenor arias. Throughout the week Rob shares some of his favourite tenor arias, with voices both familiar (Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker and the legendary Carlo Bergonzi) and unfamiliar (Bruno Prevedi and Flaviano Labo). The repertoire ranges from the touching simplicity of Pergolesi's 'Nina' to the searing melodrama of Leoncavallo's 'Vesti la giubba', via Verdi, Giordano and Ponchielli.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actor, writer and director Tom Conti. Famous internationally for his roles in films such as Shirley Valentine, Reuben, Reuben and The Dark Knight Rises, Tom was recently voted the most popular actor in the West End in the last 25 years. Tom talks about his career-defining acting roles and shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Donizetti, Handel and Verdi, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time, featuring a final piece from 大象传媒 4's 19th-Century Music season. Today the focus is on the Romantic era and Mahler's epic 6th Symphony, whose tormented dreamscapes reflect the heady atmosphere of Freud's Vienna.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is Daniil Shafran, the 'other' great Russian cellist, who Rob considers to have a more individual style than the better-known Rostropovich. Shafran is deliciously quick-witted in the Shostakovich Sonata, passionate in Brahms's 2nd, and profoundly responsive to the voices of Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninov. His tone, full and sensual, was quite unlike anyone else's.

Beethoven
Cello Sonata in D, Op. 102 No. 2
Daniil Shafran, cello
Anton Ginsburg, piano.

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Tue 21 Jun 2016 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Prelude in D minor, Op.28 No.24

    Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • SONY.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major TWV.54:D3

    Performer: Lorraine Wood. Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Mark Bennett. Performer: Michael Harrison. Performer: Nicholas Thompson. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Telemann: Suites, Concerto in D major: English Concert, Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
    • 1.

  • MY FAVOURITE...TENOR ARIAS

    • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      Nina

      Singer: Richard Tucker. Performer: John Wustman. Orchestra: Columbia Chamber Ensemble.
      • SONY.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz no.1 'The Dance in the Village Inn'

    Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Liszt - The Collection.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Round Dance of the Maidens; Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: MDR Sinfonieorchester. Choir: MDR Leipzig Radio Choir. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • SONY.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Choros No.7, 鈥楽ettimino鈥�

    Performer: B眉lent Evcil. Performer: Arc谩dio Minczuk. Performer: S茅rgio Burgani. Performer: Nailor "Proveta" Azevedo. Performer: Jos茅 Arion Linarez. Performer: Cl谩udio Cruz. Performer: Alceu Reis. Performer: Armando Yamada.
    • BIS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Cantique (Two Serious Melodies, No.1)

    Performer: Marko Yl枚nen. Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • BIS.

  • TOM CONTI'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in G major, Kk.455

      Performer: Yuja Wang.
      • DG.

  • TOM CONTI'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Gaetano Donizetti

      Sextet (Lucia di Lammermoor)

      Singer: Enrico Caruso. Singer: Marcella Sembrich. Singer: Gina Severina. Singer: Francesco Daddi. Singer: Antonio Scotti. Singer: Marcel Journet.
      • NAXOS.

  • TOM CONTI'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Franz Liszt

      Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor

      Orchestrator: Leopold Stokowski. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
      • RCA.

  • Anon.

    Cachua

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Gustav Mahler

      IV. Finale. Allegro moderato (Symphony No.6 in A minor)

      Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
      • RNW [MAHLER FEEST] BOX.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: DANIIL SHAFRAN

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Cello Sonata in D major, Op 102 No 2

      Performer: Daniil Borisovich Shafran. Performer: Anton Ginsburg.
      • MELODIYA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Selig ist der Mann, BWV57

    Singer: Agnes Giebel. Singer: Barry McDaniel. Choir: Heinrich-Sch眉tz-Chor Heilbronn. Orchestra: Southwest German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim. Conductor: Fritz Werner.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Franz von Supp猫

    Light Cavalry (Overture)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury.

Classical Roots

Answer: Strawberry Switchblade's 'Since Yesterday' is based on the 3rd movement of Sibelius' 5th Symphony

The music played:

Jill Bryson/Rosemary McDowall
'Since Yesterday'
Strawberry Switchblade
WARNER MUSIC UK LIMITED

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  • Tue 21 Jun 2016 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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