
Friday with Rob Cowan - Lakme's Flower Duet, Christine Rice, Stoke Potteries
Rob Cowan hears from leading British mezzo Christine Rice and wants your suggestions for companion pieces to the Flower Duet from Delibes's opera, Lakme.
Essential Classics with Rob Cowan
Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music including:
0930 Rob wants your suggestions for companion pieces to the Flower Duet from Delibes's opera Lakme. With one of the most beautiful and instantly recognisable melodies in all opera, the duet is a dreamy showcase for two soaring sopranos.
1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history
1050 As part of the ѿý Opera Season, leading British mezzo Christine Rice talks about her cultural influences and inspirations.
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Music Played
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Léo Delibes
Mazurka (Coppélia)
Orchestra: Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.- Delibes: Coppelia: Orchestre de l'opera de Lyon/Nagano.
- Erato.
- 4.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture in D major, TWV.55:D18
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Telemann: Orchestral Suites.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 1.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in D major K.136
Orchestra: Manchester Camerata. Conductor: Gábor Takács‐Nagy.- Chandos.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance no.2 in D minor
Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.- Brahms: Hungarian Dances.
- HARMONIA MUNDI.
- 2.
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Léo Delibes
Sous le dôme épais (Lakmé)
Singer: Anna Netrebko. Singer: Elīna Garanča. Orchestra: Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marco Armiliato.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Henry Purcell
Chaconne (King Arthur)
Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.- Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
- Decca.
- 4.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Op 87 No 4
Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.- Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
- Hyperion.
- 7.
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Arthur Sullivan
Iolanthe (Overture)
Orchestra: D'Oyly Carte Opera Orchestra. Conductor: John Pryce-Jones.- Gilbert and Sullivan Overtures: Various performers.
- TER.
- 4.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Trumpet Concerto in D major
Music Arranger: John Wallace. Music Arranger: Simon Wright. Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.- EMI.
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Vincent Youmans
Tahiti trot (Tea for two) (Op.16) [from 'No, no, Nanette']
Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Shostakovich: The Jazz Album - Brautigam, Masseurs.
- Decca.
- 16.
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Paul Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
Orchestra: Les Siècles. Conductor: François‐Xavier Roth.- Musicales Actes Sud.
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Georges Bizet
Au fond du temple saint (The Pearl Fishers)
Singer: Jussi Björling. Singer: Robert Merrill. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Renato Cellini.- RCA.
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Franz Schubert
Adagio and Rondo concertante, D 487
Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.- EMI.
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Richard Wagner
Festive March (Parsifal)
Performer: Zoltán Kocsis. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.- Philips.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 93 in D major
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Ïշ.
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Herman Bellstedt
Napoli
Performer: Roger Webster. Performer: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Nicholas J Childs.- Essential Dyke Vol. III: Black Dyke Band, Nicholas J Childs.
- Doyen.
- 3.
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Richard Strauss
Morgen, Op 27 No 4
Singer: Dorothea Röschmann. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.- Portraits.
- Sony.
- 14.
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Antonín Dvořák
The Noonday Witch, Op 108
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No 2 in F major, Op 38
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- Chopin: Op. 33-36, 38: Maurizio Pollini.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
Broadcast
- Fri 6 Oct 2017 09:00ѿý Radio 3