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Thursday with Rob Cowan - Munch's Scream, Handel's Water Music, Christine Rice

Rob Cowan brings the best in classical music, including potential companion pieces for Handel's 'Water Music'. Plus leading British mezzo Christine Rice.

Essential Classics with Rob Cowan

Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music including:

0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for Handel's Water Music, the sequence of grand pieces he wrote for King George I's progress along the Thames in 1717

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 As part of the 大象传媒 Opera Season, leading British mezzo Christine Rice talks about her cultural influences and inspirations.

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Thu 5 Oct 2017 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Dixit Dominus (1640)

    Choir: I Fagiolini. Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Choir: 24. Director: Robert Hollingworth.
    • Decca : 00289 483 1654.
    • Decca.
    • 3.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Silent woods

    Performer: Marc Coppey. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • AUDITE.

  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study No 7 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

    Performer: Alice Sara Ott.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 7.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Water music - suite in D major HWV.349

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Director: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Robert de Vis茅e

    Passacaille

    Performer: Rolf Lislevand.
    • ECM.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (Suite populaire espagnole arr Kochanski)

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sebastian Knauer.
    • Ravel/Falla/Schnittke/Bartok/Shankar: East meets West: Daniel Hope.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 8.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Clarinet Concerto No 1 in F minor (3rd mvt)

    Performer: J枚rg Widmann. Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Conductor: Peter Ruzicka.
    • Orfeo.

  • Bob Chilcott

    Tallis Canon

    Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • Johann Strauss I

    Jugendfeuer Op.90

    Music Arranger: Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln. Ensemble: Neue Wiener Concert Schrammeln.
    • PALMENREICH.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • Chopin: 26 Preludes Scherzo NR. 2 - Martha Argerich.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 28.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony no. 1 in E minor Op.39: 2nd movement; Andante [ma non troppo lento]

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: John Storg氓rds.

  • Michael Tippett

    A Birthday Suite for Prince Charles (Finale)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: Michael Tippett.
    • Tippett: Ritual Dances.
    • Nimbus.
    • 15.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Sound Sleep for female voices and (optional) orchestra

    Singer: Kitty Whately. Singer: Mary Bevan. Singer: Elizabeth Watts. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.
    • Hyperion.

  • J贸n Leifs

    Geysir, Op 51

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • Sibelius: Finlandia; Valse Triste; Grieg: Sigurd Jorsalfar; Salonen.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 7.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations in C minor, WoO 80

    Performer: Olli Mustonen.
    • Beethoven: Piano Variations: Olli Mustonen.
    • Decca.
    • 5.

  • Max Steiner

    Gone with the Wind (original MGM soundtrack); Exit Music

    Conductor: Max Steiner.
    • CBS.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Sextet in C minor, Op.40 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Les Vents Fran莽ais. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • Winds & Piano.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 6.

  • William Byrd

    Browning, 'The leaves be green' 脿 5

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Virgin Classics.

  • Claude Debussy

    Feuilles mortes (Preludes, Book 2)

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Debussy: Complete works for piano vol.1: Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.
    • 14.

  • Joseph Kosma

    Les feuilles mortes ('Fallen leaves')

    Performer: Magnus Wiklund. Performer: Carl Bagge. Performer: Mats Bergstr枚m. Performer: Per Ekdahl. Music Arranger: Per Ekdahl. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Olle Linder.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Il ritorno di Tobia (Overture)

    Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.

  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo J盲rvi.
    • ERATO.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in B flat minor Op.117 no.2

    Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • DECCA.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La valse

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.
    • EMI.

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