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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Colin Salmon

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Michael Praetorius; Artist of the Week: Charles Dutoit, featured conducting Chopin's Piano Concerto No 2.

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Rob鈥痵ets the tone and mood of the day's鈥痯rogramme鈥痺ith a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.鈥��

9.30am
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10am
Rob's guest this week is the actor Colin Salmon. Colin is best known for playing M's Chief of Staff in three James Bond films and for his roles in action-horror films such as Resident Evil and Alien vs. Predator. He made his feature debut in the TV series Prime Suspect 2 and recent credits include Limitless for CBS and Henry IX for UKTV. Colin had a very musical childhood playing the trumpet in a Salvation Army band and he still considers music as more than just a hobby. He's played at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival and he combined music with acting in his role for the 大象传媒's adaption of Alexander McCall Smith's The No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. As well as discussing his acting work, Colin shares his passion for classical music choosing a selection of his favourite works. Across the week we'll hear music by composers including Prokofiev, Richard Strauss and Gershwin.

10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Today Rob's in the Renaissance period with music by Michael Praetorius, shining the spotlight on the composer's Lutheran Choral Concerts, which are based on the hymns of Martin Luther.

Double Take鈥�
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of 'The Lonely One' from Mahler's orchestral song cycle, The Song of the Earth. The first recording features Brigitte Fassbaender, while the second is sung by Jonas Kaufmann, the first time a tenor has recorded this song from the cycle.

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Swiss conductor Charles Dutoit. In 1977, Dutoit became the Artistic Director of the鈥疢ontreal Symphony Orchestra (OSM) - a position he held for some twenty-five years. During his tenure, he raised the orchestra's recording profile and reputation significantly, making it one of the leading orchestras in the French-speaking world. While he's best-known for his association with the OSM, Dutoit has also conducted the Philadelphia Orchestra, the鈥疧rchestre National de France, Tokyo's鈥疦HK Symphony Orchestra, and the鈥疪oyal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as the鈥疺erbier Festival鈥疧rchestra in Switzerland. He is celebrated in particular for his recordings of the Romantic repertoire, and during the course of the week we'll hear him conduct Ravel's Mother Goose, Dutilleux's violin concerto L'arbre des songes (with soloist Isabelle van Keulen), Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake, Haydn's Symphony No.82 'The Bear' and Chopin's Piano Concerto No.2 in F minor, with Dutoit's former wife, Martha Argerich, as soloist.

Dutilleux
L'arbre des songes (Concerto for violin and orchestra)
Isabelle van Keulen (violin)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor).

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Music Played

  • 脡douard Lalo

    Namouna Suite: Fete foraine

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

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Scherzi musicali (1607): De la bellezza le dovute lodi

    Ensemble: Concerto delle Dame di Ferrara. Director: Sergio Vartolo.
    • NAXOS.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto No 1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • DECCA.

  • Carl Heinrich Graun

    L'Armida (La gloria t'invita)

    Singer: Julia Lezhneva. Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Mikhail Antonenko.
    • DECCA.

  • Claude Debussy

    Tarantelle Styrienne

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture

    Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Conductor: Stanis艂aw Skrowaczewski.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Tibor Serly

    Rhapsody for viola and orchestra

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Colin Salmon's First Choice

    • Gustav Holst

      Jupiter, the Bringer of Jollity (The Planets)

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
      • LSO.

  • Colin Salmon's Second Choice

    • Gustav Holst

      Peter and the Wolf: The Bird

      Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Narrator: Sting.
      • DG.

  • Colin Salmon's Third Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Brandenburg concerto no. 2 (BWV.1047) in F major, 3rd movement; Allegro assai

      Performer: Wynton Marsalis. Performer: Cho-Liang Lin. Performer: William Bennett. Performer: Neal Black. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Newman.
      • Sony.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Die Hochzeit des Camacho, overture

    Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claus Peter Flor.

  • Music in Time: Renaissance

    • Michael Praetorius

      Veni Sancte Spiritus: Komm, Heilger Geist, Herre Gott

      Ensemble: Weser-Renaissance Bremen. Conductor: Manfred Cordes.
      • CPO.

  • Double Take

    • Gustav Mahler

      Von der Sch枚nheit (Das Lied von der Erde)

      Singer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
      • DG.

    • Gustav Mahler

      Das Lied Von Der Erde (Von der Sch枚nheit)

      Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
      • Sony : 88985389832.
      • Sony.
      • 4.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Romance in B flat for violin and piano, Op 28

    Performer: Arnaud Sussmann, violin. Performer: Michael Brown, piano.

  • Henri Dutilleux

    L'arbre des songes - Concerto for Violin and Orchestra

    Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • RCO LIVE.

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen (Schwanengesang)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 93, Hob I:93

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis, conductor.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Object

The object being described was the alto聽instrument of the string family, the聽viola.

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