Friday - Rob Cowan with Cerys Matthews
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Vienna; Brahms Experience: Brahms: Rhapsodies, Op 79; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Sleeping Beauty (conclusion).
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.
9am
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
9.30am
Relative Values
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10.00am
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the 成人快手 initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.
10.30am
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Rhapsodies, Op.79
Van Cliburn (piano)
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob's Essential Choices at 11am are inspired by the 成人快手's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.
Steve Reich
Clapping Music
Pierre-Laurent Aimard
11.05am
Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty (conclusion)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor).
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Fin ch'han dal vino"
Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.- Pentatone.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Conductor: Igor Markevitch. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.- Philips.
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Johannes Brahms
Romance in F, Op.118 No.5
Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.- RCA.
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Essential CD of the Week
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Josef Strauss
Village Swallows
Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.- RCA Living Stereo.
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Relative Values
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Silent Woods
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky.- Decca.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto in F minor BWV1056
Performer: Nick Van Bloss. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.- Nimbus Alliance.
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Michael Haydn
Symphony in E flat major, P 26
Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Hans鈥怭eter Frank.- BIS.
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Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 1
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John Tavener
The Lamb
Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Martin Neary.- Sony.
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Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 2
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Gaetano Donizetti
Don Pasquale (excerpt)
Singer: Juan Oncina. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz. Choir: Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor. Orchestra: Vienna State Opera Orchestra.- Decca.
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Rob's Choice for Cerys Matthews
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Bidu Sayao: Gentil del cuore
Singer: Bidu Say茫o.- Naxos.
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Edward Elgar
Caractacus, Op.35 (Triumphal March)
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- Elgar: Orchestral Works: Sir Adrian Boult.
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Artist of the Week - Great Brahmsian Performers
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Johannes Brahms
Rhapsodies, Op.79
Performer: Van Cliburn.- Melodiya.
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Steve Reich
Clapping Music
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- Teldec.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty (conclusion) Nos. 28-30
Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat major K364
Performer: Rainer Kussmaul. Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Performer: Wolfram Christ.- SONY CLASSICAL.
Musical Challenge - Relative Values
The relationship was brothers.
The pieces were minuets from symphonies by Michael and Joseph Haydn.
Broadcast
- Fri 10 Oct 2014 09:00成人快手 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.
Time Travellers: the podcast
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.
