
Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Hall
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite French Operetta; Music in Time: CPE Bach: Symphony in D; Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky, featured conducting Nielsen's Aladdin.
9am
My favourite... French operetta. Rob taps into his lighter musical side as he selects highlights from five of his favourite operettas. Rob chooses music by the grandfather of operetta, Jacques Offenbach, as well as works by composers including André Messager and Charles Lecocq.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest is the playwright and screenwriter Lee Hall. Lee's Oscar-nominated screenplay for the film Billy Elliot went on to become a Tony and Olivier Award-winning stage musical. He has also written plays including the critically acclaimed The Pitmen Painters, and has adapted works ranging from Shakespeare in Love to Brecht's Mother Courage and Alan Warner's The Sopranos. Lee will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob, every day at 10am.
10:30
Rob places Music in Time. The focus is on the 'Sturm und Drang' (storm and stress) period of Classical music. The heightened expression and dramatic contrast in CPE Bach's Symphony in D major exemplifies this movement, and highlights the transition from the Baroque.
11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky. Rozhdestvensky made his debut at the Bolshoi Theatre when he was just twenty years old, conducting Tchaikovsky's The Nutcracker. He went on to become chief conductor of the Bolshoi Theatre, as well as the conductor of the Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra before leaving Soviet Russia in the 1970s for Stockholm and then London. There he took the role of chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra. Throughout the week Rob plays a selection of Rozhdestvensky's recordings, covering a wide range of Romantic repertoire from Glazunov to Prokofiev.
Nielsen
Aladdin Op.34
Danish National Radio Orchestra
Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor).
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MY FAVOURITE...FRENCH OPERETTA
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LEE HALL'S CHOICE No. 1
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LEE HALL'S CHOICE No. 2
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MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GENNADY ROZHDESTVENSKY
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Recording Rewind
The music played:
Chopin
Etude in G flat major, Op.10 No.5 ‘Black Keys’
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG
Broadcast
- Wed 23 Mar 2016 09:00