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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Vikki Stone

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Dvorak: The Noonday Witch; Artist of the Week: Karel Ancerl, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 5.

9am
My favourite... secular choral works. This week a selection of Rob's favourite secular choral works come under the spotlight, from Brahms's Goethe-inspired 'Song of the Fates', which reminds us of the consequences for mankind if the gods are disobeyed, to Bart贸k's 'Village Scenes', which tell the story of everyday village life - via contributions from Beethoven, Schubert and Percy Grainger.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10.00am
Rob's guest this week is the comedian, composer and actress Vikki Stone. Best known for her original comedy songs, Vikki has performed sell-out stand up shows at the Edinburgh Festival and the Soho Theatre, as well as on tour, and has made appearances on 成人快手 One's The John Bishop Show and Radio 4's The Now Show. Earlier this year, Vikki presented the 成人快手 Proms 'Proms Unplucked' podcast, bringing all the backstage news from the festival. Throughout the week pianist and flautist Vikki talks about mixing comedy and music and about learning how to conduct, and she shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including music for the flute by Phillipe Gaubert and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, a work she performed in her school orchestra.

10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 成人快手 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Followed by
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time. Today he travels back to the Romantic era with one of Dvor谩k's startlingly original 'late' tone poems, The Noonday Witch. When a mother threatens her naughty child, the witch takes action - and the ending is not a happy one. There are vivid prophecies of the 20th-century Czech composer, Leos Jan谩cek in this music.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Czech conductor Karel Ancerl, one of the most gifted musicians of the last century. The Second World War interrupted Ancerl's early conducting career and, although he survived the war, forming an orchestra whilst imprisoned at Theresienstadt concentration camp, his wife Valy and young son Jan were murdered at Auschwitz. After the war ended, Ancerl returned to conducting with a renewed vigor, raising the Czech Philharmonic to its standing among the greatest orchestras in the world during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout the week Rob shares a selection of Ancerl's many recordings with the Czech Philharmonic, including a benchmark disc of music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Brahms's Double Concerto with violinist Josef Suk and cellist Andr茅 Navarra, and Janacek's vivid narrative Taras Bulba, as well as gripping accounts of Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Stravinsky's Petrushka.

Beethoven
Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67
Czech Phiharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Thu 24 Nov 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Stephen Sondheim

    Sweeney Todd, Act 1: The Worst Pies in London

    Singer: Angela Lansbury. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Gemignani.
    • RCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bundeslied, Op.122

    Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata No.18, a 14

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Jacques Ibert

    Divertissement

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Musical Offering, BWV1079: Ricercar a 6

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Performer: Robert Kohnen.
    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in A major, Op.118 No.2

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Josef Strauss

    Geheime Anziehungskrafte (Dynamiden-Walzer), Op.173

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • DECCA.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (Five Elizabethan Songs)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Bryn Terfel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Silent Noon - English Songs.
    • DG.
    • 4.
  • Stephen Sondheim

    Epiphany (Sweeney Todd)

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • Bryn Terfel: Bad Boys; Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • DG.
    • 9.
  • Philip Glass

    Akhnaten, Act II: Scene 2, Akhnaten and Nefertiti

    Singer: Paul Esswood. Singer: Milagro Vargas. Narrator: David Warrilow. Orchestra: Stuttgart State Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • CBS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Andante in F, K616

    Performer: Bernard Foccroulle.
    • BRILLIANT.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    The Noonday Witch, Op.108

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • DECCA.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphonies of Winds

    Performer: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Craft.
    • SONY.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.5 in C minor, Op.67

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.3 in F

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

Mystery Person

Answer: Ivor Gurney

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