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Sound Frontiers: Monday - Rob Cowan with Lucian Msamati

Rob Cowan presents live from Southbank Centre. Music in Time: Mahler: Das Lied von der Erde (excerpt); Artist of the Week: Michael Gielen, who conducts Mozart's Symphony No 35.

9am
My favourite... Brahms Intermezzos. Such is his love of Brahms' piano music that Rob struggled to find his favourite intermezzos, but eventually chose a selection primarily from the Opp. 117-119 collections. They are performed by such varied Brahms interpreters as Steven Kovacevich, Clifford Curzon, Eugene Istomin, Evgeny Kissin and Glenn Gould, all of whom bring their unique, individual voices to the poetry of Brahms' piano-writing.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: name the music used in a film or TV programme

10am
Rob's guest is the actor Lucian Msamati. Best known for his role as Salladhor Saan in Game of Thrones, in 2015 Lucian he became the first black actor ever to play Iago in a Royal Shakespeare Company production of Othello, alongside Hugh Quarshie as Othello. In the same year he made his directorial debut with Boi Boi Is Dead. His stage work includes Clybourne Park and the London riots play Little Revolution, while recent TV credits include The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, Ashes to Ashes and Doctor Who. Throughout the week, Lucian shares his favourite pieces of classical music with Rob and on Friday he appears live in the Essential Classics pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre.

10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 大象传媒 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Followed by
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob's focus today is on the Romantic period and a work that includes some of the most heartfelt and expressive music written in fin-de-si猫cle Austria: the final movement 'Abschied' (Farewell) from Mahler's epic song-cycle, Das Lied von der Erde (The Song of the Earth).

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and composer Michael Gielen who when he retired in 2014, left behind an extensive recorded legacy. He held conducting posts from Vienna and Stockholm to Cincinnati and London. Besides championing the music of contemporary composers, he also excelled in music of the classical and romantic eras, which Rob focuses on this week, with Mozart's 'Haffner' Symphony, Schubert's 'Great' C major Symphony, Debussy's tennis-themed ballet Jeux, Beethoven's Symphony No. 4 and the opening Adagio from Mahler's final, incomplete Symphony No. 10.

Mozart
Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385 'Haffner'
Saarbrucken Radio Symphony Orchestra
Michael Gielen (conductor).

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Music Played

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL GIELEN

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      3 German Dances: No.1 in D major

      Orchestra: SWR Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden and Freiburg. Conductor: Michael Gielen.
      • SWR MUSIC.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Allegro appassionato, Op 43

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • HYPERION.

  • MY FAVOURITE...BRAHMS INTERMEZZOS

    • Johannes Brahms

      Intermezzo in A minor, Op.76 No.7

      Performer: Evgeny Kissin.
      • RCA.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder)

    Music Arranger: Clytus Gottwald. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • SIMAX.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto grosso after Corelli's 'La Folia' Sonata, Op.5 No.12

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Laurence Cummings (director).

  • Niccol貌 Paganini

    Guitar Sonata No 14 in F major

    Performer: Marco Tamayo.
    • Paganini: Guitar Music.
    • Naxos.
    • 12.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Two Pictures, Op.10

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Goldberg Variations: Aria da capo (1981 recording)

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • SONY.

  • Lucian Msamati's Choice No.1

    • Erik Satie

      Gymnopedie No.1

      Performer: Aldo Ciccolini.
      • EMI.

  • Lucian Msamati's Choice No.2

    • Gustav Mahler

      Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

      Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
      • Mahler: Symphony No. 5: Kubelik.
      • DG.
      • 4.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Les Folies d鈥橢spagne

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Gustav Mahler

      Das Lied von der Erde: VI. Der Abschied

      Singer: Christa Ludwig. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MICHAEL GIELEN

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No.35 in D major, 'Haffner'

      Orchestra: Saarbr眉cken Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Gielen.
      • SWR MUSIC.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Papillon Op.77

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • RCA.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlesienne Suite No.1

    Ensemble: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neville Marriner.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Etudes, Op.10 Nos. 10, 11 & 12

    Performer: Tam谩s V谩s谩ry.
    • DG.

Heard on Screen

Answer: The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The music played:

J.S. Bach
Goldberg Variations: Aria (1955 recording)
Glenn Gould (piano)
SONY

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