Monday - Rob Cowan with Chris Addison
With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Bach's Coffee Cantata; Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 8.
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Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical object.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the comedian, writer and actor, Chris Addison. Chris is well known for appearances in鈥�'The Thick of It', 'Mock the Week', 'Have I Got News for You'鈥痑nd鈥�'Live at the Apollo',鈥痑s well as producing and directing the American TV series '鈥疺eep'.鈥疕e also co-wrote and starred in the political satire鈥�'The Department'鈥痜or 蜜芽传媒 Radio 4. Chris's passion for classical music started at a young age, and with his school choir he made recordings with the Hall茅 Orchestra. More recently, he appeared in a production of Chabrier's opera 'L'脡toile' at the Royal Opera House. As well as discussing his comedy and acting work, Chris shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week by composers including Chabrier, Britten and M谩rquez.
10.30am
Music on Location: Zimmerman's Coffee House, Leipzig
Rob explores music connected with Zimmerman's Coffee House in Leipzig composed by J.S. Bach. As well running the music at St Thomas' Church, Bach was also responsible for Leipzig's Collegium Musicum, who performed at Zimmerman's on Fridays. It is thought that Bach's 'Coffee Cantata' was written for one such occasion.
11am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado
Rob's Artist of the Week is the Italian conductor Claudio Abbado. Abbado is considered one of the greatest conductors of the 20th century and remains one of the few chosen to be Principal Conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. After studying in his native Milan, and later Vienna, he won the Koussevitzky Conducting Competition. He also won the Dimitri Mitropoulos Prize which allowed him to assist Leonard Bernstein at the New York Philharmonic. He's held major posts at La Scala, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Vienna State Opera and the Berlin Philharmonic. After Berlin he founded a number of orchestras: the European Union Youth, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, the Lucerne Festival Orchestra and Orchestra Mozart, which he led until his death in 2014. Abbado will be long remembered for his conducting, but also for his enterprise and his championing of contemporary music. From a vast discography, Rob has chosen to feature Abbado in Beethoven with the Berlin Philharmonic, Bach and Mozart with Orchestra Mozart, Tchaikovsky with the New Philharmonia, and Prokofiev with the London Symphony Orchestra.
Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor).
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Cos矛 fan tutte: Overture
Orchestra: MusicAeterna. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.- Mozart: Cosi fan tutte.
- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Edvard Grieg
Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op.22: Homage March
Conductor: Frederick Fennell. Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.- Fabulous Marches for Orchestra: Boston Pops, Frederick Fennell.
- Mercury.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade no.2 in F major
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Sony.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in D major RV.204 (La stravaganza)
Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Arte dei Suonatori.- Channel Classics.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Fantaisie Op.79
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.- ALPHA.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture, Op.96
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.- EMI.
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Johannes Brahms
Three Motets, Op.110: No.1 Ich aber bin elend
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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Judith Weir
Ettrick Banks
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 no 2
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.- DECCA.
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Chris Addison's First Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (Cosi fan tutte)
Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Singer: Christa Ludwig. Singer: Walter Berry. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Bohm.- EMI.
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Chris Addison's Second Choice
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Gaetano Donizetti
La Fille du regiment: "Ah, mes amis"
Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Eric Garrett. Choir: Royal Opera House Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- DECCA.
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Chris Addison's Third Choice
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Anon.
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Music Arranger: Christina Pluhar. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar. Singer: B茅atrice Mayo-Felip.- NAIVE.
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Friedrich Gulda
Exercise No. 1 from Play Piano Play
Performer: Friedrich Gulda.- BR Klassik.
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Music on Location: Caf茅 Zimmerman
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Coffee Cantata, BWV211 'Schweigt stille, plaudert nicht'
Singer: J煤lia V谩rady. Singer: Aldo Baldin. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- PHILIPS.
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Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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William Byrd
Pavan and Galliard No 2 in C minor
Performer: Mahan Esfahani.- WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for violin and orchestra No. 1 K.207
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Harmonia Mundi.
Musical Challenge: Mystery Object
The Mystery Object was an organ pipe.
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