Thursday - Rob Cowan with Michael Frayn
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Schubert Lieder; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: conductor Simon Rattle; Rob's Essential Choice: Ravel: La valse.
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Schubert Lieder'. Throughout the week Rob enjoys songs by Schubert, with performers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jonas Kaufmann and Margaret Price.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to three musical extracts, try and find a connection and see if you can suggest the missing fourth.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the writer Michael Frayn; a successful dramatist, novelist and translator, Michael started out as an award-winning journalist. Michael will be sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am.
10.30am
This week Rob features recordings by Sir Simon Rattle, widely considered to be one of the foremost conductors of his time. Radio 3 continues its celebrations of Rattle's 60th birthday. Rob showcases some of his favourite recordings by the conductor, including music by Haydn, Szymanowski, Bruckner and Shostakovich, and featuring the Berlin Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Ravel
La Valse
Yuja Wang (piano)
DG.
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Music Played
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Walter Donaldson
Yes Sir, that鈥檚 my baby
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- Virgin.
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Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.- EMI.
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5 REASONS TO LOVE... SCHUBERT LIEDER
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Franz Schubert
Lied eines Schiffers an die Dioskuren, D 360
Performer: Elisabeth Leonskaja. Singer: Matthias Goerne.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Henry Wood
Jack's the lad [Sailors' hornpipe] (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)
Orchestra: 成人快手 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- Philips.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Navarra, Op.33
Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Igor Oistrakh. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Franz Konwitschny.- DG.
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Richard Strauss
Capriccio (Sextet)
Ensemble: The Raphael Ensemble.- HELIOS.
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Michael Tippett
Deep river (Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time)
Choir: Finzi Singers. Conductor: Paul Spicer.- Chandos.
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MICHAEL FRAYN'S CHOICE NO. 1
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Johannes Brahms
Symphony No 3: opening Allegro con brio
Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.- Philips.
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MICHAEL FRAYN'S CHOICE NO. 2
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Mass in C minor: Et incarnatus est
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st. Singer: Edith Wiens.- EMI.
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Essential Choice
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Maurice Ravel
La Valse
Performer: Yuja Wang.- DG.
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Artist Of The Week: Simon Rattle
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Igor Stravinsky
Symphony In C
Conductor: Sir Simon. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.- EMI.
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Franz Schubert
Ave Maria
Singer: Elisabeth Schumann. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Leo Rosenek.- EMI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: G茅rard Korsten.- Deutsche Grammophon.
Find the Fourth
The music played:
OLDParrySongs of Farewell: There is an Old BeliefChoir of St George鈥檚 Chapel, WindsorChristopher Robinson (conductor)HYPERION CDA66273聽
NEWDvorakSymphony no. 9 鈥楩rom the New World鈥�: LargoBerlin PhilharmonicRafael Kubelik (conductor)DG 447 4122
BLUEGershwinRhapsody in BlueBaltimore Symphony OrchestraMarin Alsop (conductor)DECCA 478 2189 聽
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