Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Katie Mitchell
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Robert Johnson; Artist of the Week: William Christie, featured conducting Lully's Atys (Prologue).
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Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical person.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the theatre and opera director, Katie Mitchell. Katie formed a theatre company whilst still at school and started working at the Royal Shakespeare Company in her early twenties, before holding positions at the Royal Court Theatre and the National Theatre. Her productions of both well-known plays and brand new works have provoked strong reactions from critics, some branding her as a 'vandal', whilst others consider her one of the best directors in the world today. Katie's also a big presence in the world of opera, directing productions at Welsh National Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden and the Aix-en-Provence Festival where she directed the world premiere of George Benjamin's Written on Skin. She's distilled her experiences into a book, The Director's Craft, and she is currently the Visiting Chair in Opera Studies at the University of Oxford. As well as discussing her work as a director and her life, Katie shares some of her favourite鈥痗lassical music.
10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Rob's in Renaissance England exploring the work of lutenist and composer Robert Johnson, who wrote music for stage works by William Shakespeare and Ben Jonson.
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Brahms's Rhapsody in G minor, Op.79 No.2, with recordings by Murray Perahia and Gerhard Oppitz.
11am
Artist of the Week: William Christie
Rob's Artist of the Week is the American-born conductor and harpsichordist, William Christie. After growing up and studying in America, Christie moved to France in the 1970s where he founded his award-winning vocal and instrumental ensemble, Les Arts Florissants. Together they've opened up the music of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France to a wider audience, in particular championing works by neglected composers such as Guillaume Bouzignac and Andr茅 Campra. Christie is regarded as the uncontested master of op茅ra-ballet, such as Rameau's Les Indes Galantes, and trag茅die-lyrique, such as Lully's Atys, and it was Christie's 1987 production of Atys that first earned him major public recognition. Ever since, he's been a leading figure in Baroque opera and vocal music, and throughout the week we'll hear Christie's recordings of works by Charpentier, Lully and Purcell, as well as Mozart. He's also a renowned keyboard player, and we'll hear him as a soloist, accompanist and duettist in music by Joseph-Nicolas-Pancrace Royer, Handel, and Couperin.
Lully
Atys: Prologue
Monique Zanetti (soprano)
Arlette Steyer (soprano)
Agn猫s Mellon (soprano)
Guy de Mey (tenor)
Jean-Paul Fouch茅court (tenor)
Bernard Deletr茅 (bass-baritone)
Les Arts Florissants
William Christie (conductor).
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Much Ado about Nothing - Suite (Intermezzo - Garden Scene)
Orchestra: Orchestre philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Marc Albrecht.- Pentatone.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in D major, K.136
Ensemble: Van Kuijk Quartet.- ALPHA.
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Guillaume Bouzignac
In pace, in idipsum
Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Ensemble: Ensemble de violes Gibbons. Director: William Christie.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Scherzo a la russe, Op.1 No.1
Performer: Alexandre Kantorow.- BIS.
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Trad.
The Lincolnshire Poacher
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Peter Pears. Performer: Benjamin Britten.- LONDON.
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Pau Casals
Song of the Birds (El Cant del Ocells)
Performer: Pau Casals. Orchestra: Prades Festival Orchestra.- CBS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No.2, Op.72a
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Beethoven: Overtures: Harnoncourt, COE.
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In der ferne, from Schwanengesang, S 560 No 6
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Katie Mitchell's First Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.2 in F major, BWV1047: First Movement
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Katie Mitchell's Second Choice
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Antonio Vivaldi
The Four Seasons - 'Summer': III. Tempo impetuoso d'Estate
Performer: Fabio Biondi. Orchestra: Europa Galante.
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Alfred Schnittke
Concerto Grosso No.1: V. Rondo
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Tatiana Grindenko. Performer: Yuri Smirnov. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Heinrich Schiff.- DG.
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Barbara Strozzi
Silenzio nocivo
Ensemble: Orlando di Lasso Ensemble.- Thorofon.
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Barbara Strozzi
Silencio nocivo, from 1st Bk of Madrigals
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Music in Time: Renaissance
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Ben Johnson
Full Fathom Five from 'The Tempest'
Performer: Jakob Lindberg. Singer: Emma Kirkby.- BIS.
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Robert Johnson
The Fairies' Dance from 'Oberon, the Faery Prince'
Performer: Nigel North.- NAXOS.
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Toru Takemitsu
Requiem for string orchestra
Orchestra: Saito Kinen Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- PHILIPS.
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Double Take
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Johannes Brahms
Rhapsody in G minor, Op.79 No.2
Performer: Murray Perahia.- SONY.
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Johannes Brahms
Rhapsody in G minor, Op.79 No.2
Performer: Gerhard Oppitz.- RCA.
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Artist of the Week: William Christie
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Atys: Prologue
Singer: Monique Zanetti. Singer: Arlette Steyer. Singer: Agn猫s Mellon. Singer: Guy de Mey. Singer: Jean-Paul Fouch茅court. Singer: Bernard Deletr茅. Ensemble: Les Arts Florissants. Conductor: William Christie.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, BWV 855
Performer: Wilhelm Kempff, piano. -
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Violin Concerto No 1 in D, Op 6
Performer: Erick Friedman, violin. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
Musical Challenge: Mystery Person
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