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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Tracy Chevalier

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Liszt Transcriptions of Schubert Songs; Music in Time: Glinka's Ivan Susanin; Artists of the Week: Concerto Koln. Sussmayr: Symphony in C.

9am
My favourite... Liszt transcriptions of Schubert songs. Liszt was an inveterate transcriber of other composers' music, partly because he needed material to supply the extraordinarily gruelling series of piano recitals he undertook during the 1840s. Schubert was among the composers Liszt turned to most frequently for this purpose, particularly with regard to his songs, which Liszt transformed into lovingly crafted piano miniatures. Rob shares a selection of his favourite Liszt transcriptions of Schubert songs throughout the week.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest is the author Tracy Chevalier. Tracy is best known for her historical novel Girl With a Pearl Earring, inspired by the painting of the same name by Johannes Vermeer. The book sold millions of copies around the world and was turned into a Hollywood film. Tracy's other novels include Burning Bright, Remarkable Creatures and The Last Runaway. Tracy will be talking about the way she researches and writes her novels, and revealing her favourite classical music, every day at 10am.

10:30
Rob places Music in Time as he heads back to the Romantic period to hear a landmark in the history of opera - Mikhail Glinka's Ivan Susanin, which marked the emergence of a Russian school of opera from out of the shadows cast by the Italian tradition.

11am
Rob's artists of the week are Concerto Köln, one of the world's longest-established and most vibrant original-instrument ensembles. Founded in Cologne, Germany, in 1985, their core repertoire is Baroque, Pre-classical and Classical, but their interests extend into the Romantic period and even, on occasion, the 20th century. Throughout the week Rob showcases a selection of their finest recordings, ranging from JS Bach's Violin Concerto in E major to a Symphony by Anton Eberl and Henryk Górecki's Harpsichord Concerto.

Süssmayr
Symphony in C major (Synfonia turchesa)
Concerto Köln
Sarband.

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Thu 17 Mar 2016 09:00

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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

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Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
- RCA.
MY FAVOURITE...LISZT TRANSCRIPTIONS OF SCHUBERT SONGS
- Franz Schubert
  
  Ellens Gesang, D 839 'Ave Maria' transc Liszt
  Performer: Valentina Lisitsa. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
  
  DECCA.
Jan Dismas Zelenka

Capriccio No.1 in D major
Performer: Alexander Van Wijnkoop. Ensemble: Camerata Bern. Director: Alexander Van Wijnkoop.
- BRILLIANT.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Sinfonia (Cantata No 42, 'Am Abend aber desselbigen Sabbats')
Ensemble: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
- DHM.
Jean‐Baptiste Lully

Chaconne d'Amadis
Ensemble: Capriccio Stravagante. Conductor: Skip Sempé.
- DHM.
Henry Purcell

Music for a while (Oedipus)
Performer: William Christie. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Singer: Alfred Deller.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
TRACY CHEVALIER'S CHOICE NO.1
- Franz Schubert
  
  II. Andantino (Sonata in A major, D.959)
  Performer: Paul Berkowitz.
  
  MERIDIAN.
TRACY CHEVALIER'S CHOICE NO.2
- Franz Schubert
  
  Piano Quintet in A major, D 667, 'Trout' (4th mvt)
  Performer: Alfred Brendel. Performer: James van Demark. Ensemble: Cleveland Quartet.
  
  PHILIPS.
Clara Schumann

Six Lieder from Jucunde, Op.23; 3. Geheimes Flüstern
Performer: Hedayet Djeddikar. Singer: Dorothea Craxton.
- Clara Schumann: Complete Songs.
- Naxos.
- 13.
Music in Time: Romantic
- Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
  
  Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar, conclusion of Act IV)
  Singer: Evgeny Nesterenko. Choir: USSR Bolshoi Theatre Chorus. Orchestra: Bol'shoi Simfonicheskiy Orkestr. Conductor: Mark Ermler.
  
  MELODIYA.
Trad.

John Dohertys March / Old John’s Jig
Ensemble: Kieran Fahy and musicians.
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: CONCERTO KÖLN
- Franz Xaver Süssmayr
  
  Symphony in C major 'Sinfonia turchesca'
  Ensemble: Concerto Köln. Ensemble: Sarband. Director: Werner Ehrhardt. Director: Vladimir Ivanoff.
  
  ARCHIV.
Tomás Luis de Victoria

Lamed (Lamentations of Jeremiah - Good Friday)
Conductor: Peter Phillips. Choir: Tallis Scholars.
- Victoria: Lamentations of Jeremiah. The Tallis Scholars.
- Gimell.
- 7.
Sergei Prokofiev

Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 44
Orchestra: Great Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
- MELODIYA.