Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Ray Mears
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Polkas; Music in Time: Berg's Wozzeck; Artist of the Week: Claudio Arrau, featured performing Schubert's Piano Sonata 19 in C minor.
9am
My favourite... polkas. Rob shares a selection of his favourite polkas, a dance form that originated in 19th-century Bohemia. He features polkas by Smetana, Shostakovich, Schubert and Rachmaninov, as well as Johann Strauss II's ever-popular Thunder and Lightning Polka.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest is the television presenter and writer Ray Mears. A bushcraft, wildlife and survival expert, Ray has presented shows including Ray Mears' Bushcraft, World of Survival and Extreme Survival. He has broadcast from around the world and recently presented Wild Australia with Ray Mears, and Wild France with Ray Mears. Ray has written books including Vanishing World: A Life of Bushcraft and Northern Wilderness, as well as his autobiography My Outdoor Life. His most recent book, Out on the Land: Bushcraft Skills from the Northern Forest, was released earlier this year. Ray shares a selection of his favourite classical music throughout the week, with choices ranging from Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man to Vaughan Williams' The Wasps and Schubert's Symphony No. 5.
10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Rob places Music in Time, turning his attention to the Modern period and one of the most ground-breaking operas of the twentieth century, Berg's Wozzeck, which fuses Expressionism with Schoenberg's twelve-tone system of composition.
11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau. A child prodigy, Arrau learned to read music before reading words, and at the age of eleven he could play Liszt's Transcendental Etudes, one of the most difficult works in the piano repertoire. He is known especially for his interpretations of composers from the Classical and Romantic eras, though he was also a champion of Baroque music, and in 1935 he gave a rendition of the entire keyboard works of Bach over twelve recitals. Throughout the week, Rob celebrates the recording legacy of this remarkable pianist, featuring Liszt's Fantasy on Hungarian folk-melodies, Schumann's Humoreske, Schubert's Piano Sonata D.958, Brahms' epic Piano Concerto No. 2, and Debussy's Images (Book II).
Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor D.958
Claudio Arrau (piano).
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Alban Berg
Seven Early Songs: The Nightingale
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Neal Thomas
Alleluia! A new work is come on hand. (2016 成人快手 Radio 3 Carol Competition shortlist)
Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: David Hill. -
my favourite... polkas
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Bedrich Smetana
Czech Dances Series I: No.4 Polka in Bb major
Performer: Rudolf Firku拧n媒.- EMI.
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Ghislaine Reece-Trapp
Alleluia! A new work is come on hand. (2016 成人快手 Radio 3 Carol Competition shortlist)
Choir: 成人快手 Singers. Conductor: David Hill.- 成人快手 recording.
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Malcolm Arnold
Brass Quintet No.1, Op.73
Ensemble: Wallace Collection.- The Wallace Collection.
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Bedrich Smetana
Bettina Polka
Performer: Walter Klien.- TUXEDO MUSIC.
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Henry Purcell
What power art thou (King Arthur Z.628)
Singer: Stephen Varcoe. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Purcell - King Arthur.
- ERATO.
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.1 in F minor
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Winter
Performer: Francesca Vicari. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini. Ensemble: Concerto Italiano.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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Ray Mears' choice no.1
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition: no.2 Gnomus
Music Arranger: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- DG.
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Ray Mears' choice no.2
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
The Wasps (Overture)
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
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Percy Grainger
Near Woodstock Town; The Sussex Mummers' Carol
Composer: Dana Perna. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Grainger/Grieg: At Twilight: Polyphony, Stephen Layton.
- Hyperion.
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MUSIC IN TIME: Modern
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Alban Berg
Wozzeck: Act II, Scenes 4 & 5
Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Choir: Vienna State Opera Choir. Singer: Franz Grundheber. Singer: Hildegard Behrens. Singer: Walter Raffeiner. Singer: Philip Langridge. Singer: Peter Jelosits. Singer: Alexander Maly. Singer: Alfred 艩ramek. Singer: Werner Kamenik.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No 4 in G major, BWV 1049
Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music.- J.S. Bach: Orchestral Music: Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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artist of the week: Claudio arrau
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Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in C Minor, D.958
Performer: Claudio Arrau.- PHILIPS.
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Thomas Lupo
Fantasy air a 4 No.7
Performer: Judy Tarling. Performer: Theresa Caudle. Performer: Paul Denley. Performer: Mark Caudle. Performer: Peter Holman. Ensemble: The Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.- Music for Prince Charles: The Parley of Instruments/Holman.
- Hyperion.
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Henryk Wieniawski
Violin Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 22
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- WARNER.
Recording Rewind
The music played:
Vivaldi
Four Seasons: Winter - 1st movement
Concerto Italiano
Rinaldo Alessandrini (director)
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