Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Rachmaninov: The Isle of the Dead; Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured in Mascagni and Leoncavallo.
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9.30am
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10am
Rob's guest this week is Kasper Holten, the departing Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Kasper's passion for opera began aged nine after hearing Bizet's Carmen and he went on to train with directors such as Harry Kupfer, John Cox and David Pountney. Aged 27 he was appointed Artistic Director of Royal Danish Opera, where he directed productions of Weber's Der Freisch眉tz, Ligeti's Le Grand Macabre and Wagner's Ring Cycle; he held the position for 11 years. In 2011 he became the youngest ever Director of Opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, where he has since directed Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin and Szymanowski's Kr贸l Roger as well as overseeing successes such as George Benjamin's Written on Skin. As well as discussing his work as a director and his life, Kasper shares some of his favourite classical music.
10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Today Rob's in the early 20th century exploring music inspired by visual art. Rachmaninov's The Isle of the Dead was inspired by a black and white reproduction of Arnold B枚cklin's painting of the same name.
Double Take鈥�
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of the Tritsch-Tratsch Polka by J. Strauss II - one conducted by George Szell and one by Willi Boskovsky.
11am
Artist of the Week:鈥疐ranco Corelli
Rob's Artist of the Week is the tenor Franco Corelli, one of the most famous and feted tenors of the 20th century. Growing up in Italy, Corelli was set to be a naval engineer like his father, but when a musical friend heard him sing, he was encouraged to attend a conservatoire. It wasn't completely plain sailing for Corelli, but he was determined, and even taught himself by listening to recordings of Enrico Caruso and Beniamino Gigli. He made his La Scala debut alongside Maria Callas and enjoyed a successful international career thereafter; he made over 250 appearances at New York's Metropolitan Opera alone. Corelli's repertoire included most of the major tenor roles in operas by composers such as Verdi, Puccini, Mascagni, Leoncavallo, Giordano, and Bizet - we'll hear Corelli in well-loved arias from Aida, Tosca, Cavalleria Rusticana, Pagliacci, Andrea Ch茅nier and Carmen during the week, as well as popular arias such as Granada, and excerpts from Verdi's Requiem and Rossini's Petite messe solennelle.
Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana: "Mamma, quel vino 猫 generoso"
Franco Corelli (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Gabriele Santini (conductor)
Leoncavallo
Pagliacci: "Recitar...Vesti la giubba"
Franco Corelli (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Milan
Lovro van Matacic (conductor).
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Claude Debussy
No. 2; Fetes (Nocturnes for Orchestra)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto Grosso in D major Op.6`4
Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Le Concert Spirituel: Le Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall.
- Alia Vox.
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Tatiana Nikolayeva
Three Concert Etudes
Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.- SUPRAPHON.
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Jean Sibelius
Rondino
Performer: Mats Lidstr枚m. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- HYPERION.
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Johann Nepomuk Hummel
Octet-Partita in E flat major
Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- ASV.
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Carlos Rafael Rivera
Cumba-Quin
Ensemble: Aquarelle Guitar Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Aaron Copland
At the River (Old American Songs - set 2)
Singer: Marilyn Horne. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Carl Davis.- Aaron Copland: The World of Aaron Copland.
- Decca.
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Kasper Holten's First Choice
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata: Addio del passato
Singer: Ileana Cotruba葯. Choir: Choir of the Bavarian State Opera. Orchestra: Bavarian State Orchestra.- DG.
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Kasper Holten's Second Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: Finale of Act 1
Singer: Rod Gilfry. Singer: 慕uba Orgon谩拧ov谩. Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Christoph Pr茅gardien. Singer: Ildebrando d鈥橝rcangelo. Singer: Eirian James. Singer: Julian Clarkson. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Archiv.
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Johannes Brahms
Ballade in D major, Op.10 No.2
Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels.- DG.
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Music in Time: Modern
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Sergey Rachmaninov
The Isle of the Dead
Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Gielen.- SWR.
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Double Take
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Johann Strauss II
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.- DG.
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Johann Strauss II
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: George Szell.- DG.
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Artist of the Week: Franco Corelli
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Pietro Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana: "Mamma, quel vino 猫 generoso"
Singer: Franco Corelli. Singer: Corinna Vozza. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriele Santini.- WARNER.
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Vesti la giubba (I Pagliacci)
Singer: Franco Corelli. Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Lovro von Mata膷i膰.- WARNER.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Trio in G major, Op.9 No.1
Performer: Leonid Kogan. Performer: Rudolf Barshai. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.- Supraphon.
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Jules Massenet
Scenes pittoresques: Suite No.4
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux. -
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Franz Leh谩r
The Land of Smiles, Act II: You are my heart's delight
Singer: David Hughes. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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