Friday - Rob Cowan with Kasper Holten
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Szymanowski's Stabat Mater; Artist of the Week: tenor Franco Corelli, featured performing music by Bizet and Giordano.
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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.
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Music in Time: Modern
Today Rob's exploring a modern setting of the Stabat Mater, a hymn to the Virgin Mary. Polish composer Karol Szymanowski's setting combines folk elements and Renaissance contrapuntal practices to create a powerful act of devotion and mourning.
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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.
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Bizet
Carmen: "La fleur que tu m'avais jet茅e"
Franco Corelli (tenor)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Giordano
Andrea Ch茅nier: "Colpito qui m'avete...Un d矛 all'azzurro spazio"
Franco Corelli (tenor)
Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera di Roma
Gabriele Santini (conductor).
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Polonaise (Eugene Onegin)
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.- Philips.
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Richard Wagner
Parsifal: Good Friday Music
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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Carlo Gesualdo
Tenebrae Responsories for Good Friday: Animam meam dilectam tradidi
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- PHI.
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Federico Mompou
Prelude No.9
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- HYPERION.
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Henri Vieuxtemps
Elegie Op.30
Performer: Timothy Ridout. Performer: Ke Ma.- CHAMPS HILL RECORDS.
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Hugo Alfv茅n
Drapa, Op.27 'In memoriam King Oscar II'
Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- BIS.
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Thomas Ad猫s
Arcadiana: VI. O Albion
Ensemble: Endellion String Quartet.- EMI Classics.
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Edward Elgar
Enigma Variations: IX. Nimrod
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- LSO LIVE.
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Karol Szymanowski
Krol Roger: opening
Choir: Chorus of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Singer: Alan Ewing. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. -
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Benjamin Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes (Dawn)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- DECCA.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death: 1. Lullaby鈥�
Performer: Qian Wu. Singer: Nikolay Borchev.- Music@Menlo.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Valse-caprice no.1 in A major Op.30
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- HYPERION.
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Karol Szymanowski
Stabat Mater
Singer: Aleksandra Kurzak. Singer: Agnieszka Rehlis. Singer: Artur Rucinski. Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: Warsaw Philharmonic Chorus. Conductor: Jacek Kaspszyk.- WARNER.
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Improvisation
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Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- El Nuevo Mundo: Fol铆as Criollas.
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Georges Bizet
Carmen: "La fleur que tu m'avais jet茅e"
Singer: Franco Corelli. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- RCA.
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Umberto Giordano
Andrea Chenier: "Colpito qui m'avete...Un d矛 all'azzuro spazio"
Singer: Franco Corelli. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriele Santini.- WARNER.
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Johannes Brahms
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.77
Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Orchestra: Luzerner Sinfonieorchester. Conductor: James Gaffigan.- BIS.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in A major, Op.87 No.7
Performer: Peter Donohoe (piano).
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