Tuesday - Rob Cowan: Sound of Cinema

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Old Czech Marches and Dances; Ton Koopman; composer Debbie Wiseman; Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand: Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Old Czech Marches and Dances with the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Vaclav Neumann; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Critics' Corner.

10am
Artist of the Week: Harpsichordist, organist and conductor Ton Koopman.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the film and television composer Debbie Wiseman. Debbie's film and television credits include more than 200 titles, such as Judge John Deed, The Land Girls, Tom's Midnight Garden, and Wilde. In 2008 she composed a new "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra" called "Different Voices", and her album of music to accompany Oscar Wilde's fairy stories, Wilde Stories, was nominated for a Grammy Award and later made into a trilogy of animated films for Channel 4. In 2004, Debbie was awarded an MBE for services to the music and film industry.

11am
Sound of Cinema with Neil Brand, who introduces his personal choice of Music that Made the Movies:

Walton
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue.

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- 5.
Antonio Vivaldi

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Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Ton Koopman.
- Sony.
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Performer: Jacques Zoon. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
- DG.
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Geoffrey Simon.
- Chandos.
George Frideric Handel

Organ Concerto in B flat major, HWV 30
Performer: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
- Erato.
Alexander Borodin

Prince Igor Overture
Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
- RCA Living Stereo.
Joseph Haydn

Symphony No. 104 in D: Menuet
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
- EMI.
Ernest Bloch

Baal Shem No. 2 'Nigun'
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
- Teldec.
Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

Donna Diana Overture
Performer: New York Philharmonic. Performer: Leonard bernstein (conductor).
- SONY.
William Walton

'Spitfire' Prelude and Fugue
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
- EMI.
Johann Sebastian Bach

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Performer: Margaret Urguhart & Maarten van der Heyden (violins). Performer: Ageet Zweistra (cello). Performer: Jan Kleinbussink (organ). Performer: Netherlands Chamber Choir. Performer: Ton Koopman (director).
- DECCA.
Johannes Brahms

Symphony No. 3 in F, Op. 90
Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bruno Walter.
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