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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Julian Glover

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Vladimir Horowitz; Haydn string quartets; Artist of the Week: violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann in Saint-Saens's Violin Concerto No 3.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Vladimir Horowitz'. Rob makes the case for the Russian-American pianist as one of the 20th century's great musical interpreters. Throughout the week he showcases Horowitz's ability to transform Scarlatti harpsichord sonatas into finely crafted piano miniatures, his individual approach to Chopin's mazurkas, his colourful interpretations of Czerny, the genius of his transcriptions and arrangements of Liszt and his understanding of Scriabin's mysterious muse.

9.30am
Take part in our daily music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest this week is Julian Glover. Julian started out as a classically trained stage actor who performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company. He achieved Hollywood fame in the 1980s when he acted in the Star Wars franchise, was the Bond villain to Roger Moore's 007 in For Your Eyes Only and starred in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade with Harrison Ford. His credits range from guest appearances in Doctor Who to providing the voice of the giant spider Aragog in Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets. More recently he has portrayed Grand Maester Pycelle in the hugely popular Game of Thrones. Julian will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Rob places Music in Time as he explores the influence of one Classical composer on another. He showcases a superb work from Haydn's last set of string quartets, works that represent the culmination of this classical form. Haydn, 'the father of the string quartet', mirrors the pathos and ingenuity of the six quartets that Mozart, who had died some years later, dedicated to him.

11am
Rob's Artist of the Week is the master violinist Frank Peter Zimmermann. A thoroughly modern virtuoso - brilliant, intelligent and thoughtful in works such as Szymanowski's Violin Concerto No.1 and Britten's Concerto in D minor - Zimmermann is also responsive to the pathos of Mozart's Sonata in E minor, the autumnal strains of Brahms' Horn Trio and the Gallic elegance of 厂补颈苍迟-厂补毛苍蝉' Third Concerto.

厂补颈苍迟-厂补毛苍蝉
Violin Concerto No 3 in B minor, Op.61
Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin
Oslo Philharmonic
Mariss Jansons, conductor.

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Wed 28 Oct 2015 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gustav Mahler

    Trost im Ungl眉ck (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Thomas Hampson. Ensemble: Vienna Virtuosi.
    • DG.

  • Costanzo Porta

    Sinfonia in D major

    Performer: Simon Munday. Performer: Adrian Chandler. Ensemble: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.
    • AVIE.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...VLADIMIR HOROWITZ

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op.30 No.4

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Mazurka in F minor, Op.63 No.2

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Mazurka in C sharp minor, Op.50 No.3

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • SONY.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Trois Pieces de Ballet, 'Les Rencontres'

    Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adriano.
    • NAXOS.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Welcome the Queen, Op 78

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Bliss.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hornpipe; Air No 3; How blest are the shepherds; Chaconne (King Arthur)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • SONY.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Tarantella (Suite for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • MELODIYA.

  • Ernest Bloch

    Abodah (God's Worship)

    Performer: Yehudi Menuhin. Performer: Henrik Endt.
    • EMI.

  • JULIAN GLOVER'S CHOICE

    • Gustav Mahler

      I. Trauermarsch (Symphony No.5)

      Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
      • DG.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Paris Quartet No.6 in B minor

    Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • SONY.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in D major, Op.76 No.5

      Ensemble: Angeles Quartet.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Ierusalem

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Choir: Gothic Voices. Performer: Doreen Muskett. Performer: Robert White. Conductor: Christopher Page.
    • HYPERION.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: FRANK PETER ZIMMERMANN

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Violin Concerto No.3 in B minor, Op.61

      Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
      • EMI.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Little Polka (Jazz Suite No.2)

    Ensemble: Salzburg Mozarteum Wind Philharmonic.

  • Franz Xaver Gerl

    String Quartet in E flat, Op.27

    Ensemble: Hoffmeister Quartet.
    • PROFIL.

Mystery Person

Answer: Yehudi Menuhin

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    成人快手 Radio 3

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