Monday - Rob Cowan with Imogen Heap
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Mozart: Symphony No 31 'Paris'; Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein, featured performing Dvorak's Cello Concerto.
9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played in reverse.
10am
Rob's guest in the week of 大象传媒 Music Day is the musician Imogen Heap. Imogen is best known as a singer-songwriter, but she's composed music for film and theatre as well as working in sound engineering and production. She's written music for the West End show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. She is also at the forefront of musical technological innovation with her recent development of musical gloves and a new way of running the music industry called Mycelia. Imogen is named after the composer Imogen Holst and is passionate about a wide range of classical music. As well as talking about her life and work, throughout the week she'll be sharing music by composers including Debussy, Steve Reich and Arvo P盲rt.
10.30am
Music on Location: Paris
Rob explores music connected with Paris by Mozart. The composer penned his Paris Symphony whilst visiting the city in 1778 and wowed the local audience.
11am
Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein
Rob's featured artist is the American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who made her concert debut at the age of 13 and was soon recognised as an artist with exceptional powers of communication. Always a keen promoter of contemporary music, Weilerstein brings her radiant tone to the Seven Tunes Heard in China by the Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng, one of the pieces Rob's chosen to feature this week. She's joined by her parents, the violinist Donald Weilerstein and the pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, for an emotionally potent performance of Schumann's G minor Piano Trio, and she can also be heard in a trio of concertos: 顿惫辞艡谩办's evergreen Cello Concerto, the searingly dramatic 2nd Cello Concerto of Shostakovich, and the perennially affecting Elgar Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim.
顿惫辞艡谩办
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Alisa Weilerstein (cello)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek (conductor).
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Claude Debussy
L'Isle Joyeuse
Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.- SONY.
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Olivier Messiaen
O sacrum convivium
Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.- BIS.
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Jan Dismas Zelenka
Sonata in F, ZWV 181 No.5
Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.- ASTREE.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Variations on the theme 鈥楧al tuo stellato soglio鈥� from Mos猫 in Egitto by Rossini (鈥楳oses Fantasy鈥�)
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Vivian Hornik Weilerstein.- EMI.
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Hugo Wolf
Italian Serenade
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- DG.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Romance in F for violin and orchestra, Op.50
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- WARNER.
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Imogen Heap's First Choice
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Sergey Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf: "Let me tell you a story."
Narrator: Sting. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Imogen Heap's Second Choice
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition: The Great Gate of Kiev
Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Imogen Heap's Third Choice
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Claude Debussy
Children's Corner: Doctor Gradus ad Parnassum
Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.- DECCA.
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William Byrd
Domine, secundum actum meum
Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.- Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
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Music on Location: Paris
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.31 in D, K 297 ('Paris')
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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Franz Liszt
Rhapsodie espagnole, S254
Performer: Georges Cziffra. -
Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein
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Anton铆n 顿惫辞艡谩办
Cello Concerto in B minor, Op.104
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.- DECCA.
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C茅sar Franck
Fantaisie in C
Performer: Andr茅 Isoir. -
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Franz Liszt
Grand galop chromatique
Performer: Georges Cziffra.
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