Thursday - Rob Cowan with Ray Mears
With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Polkas; Music in Time: Elgar: Cockaigne (In London Town); Artist of the Week: Claudio Arrau, featured performing Brahms's Piano Concerto No 2.
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: name the classical piece used in a TV programme or film.
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: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time, looking at the Romantic period, and in particular the way in which the essence of a certain place can be captured in music, with Elgar's popular concert overture Cockaigne (In London Town).
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).
Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat
Claudio Arrau (piano)
Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
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Music Played
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Edward Elgar
The Wand of Youth Suite No 1 (Overture)
Orchestra: Orchestra of Welsh National Opera. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Argo.
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MY FAVOURITE... POLKAS
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Polka Italienne
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy. Performer: Alastair Mackie.- DECCA.
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
5 songs, 1910: Laue Sommernacht
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.- LINN.
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Alma Mahler-Werfel
5 songs, 1910: Bei dir es traut
Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.- LINN.
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Edvard Grieg
Holberg Suite: Prelude & Rigaudon
Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Director: Richard Tognetti.- BIS.
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Judith Weir
Illuminare, Jerusalem
Performer: Michael Papadopoulos. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Roderick Williams
O Adonai, O Dux Domus Israel
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in E flat major, Hob. XVI: 25
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- HYPERION.
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Claude Debussy
Clair de lune orch Caillet
Orchestrator: Lucien Cailliet. Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- Clair de lune: Music of France: Ormandy.
- RCA Victor.
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RAY MEARS' CHOICE
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7 in C Major Op. 60, "Leningrad": I. Allegretto
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS.
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MUSIC IN TIME: Romantic
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne Overture
Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- TELDEC.
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Arnold Bax
Elegiac trio for viola, flute and harp
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- Bax: Nonet/Elegiac Trio etc: The Nash Ensemble.
- Hyperion.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: CLAUDIO ARRAU
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No.2 in B flat, Op.83
Performer: Claudio Arrau. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
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Johannes Brahms
Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91 No 2
Performer: Nils鈥怑rik Sparf. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.- DG.
Heard on Screen
Answer: Ocean's Eleven (2001)
The music played:
Debussy (orch. Lucien Cailliet)
Clair de lune
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
RCA
Broadcast
- Thu 22 Dec 2016 09:00成人快手 Radio 3