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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Harrison Birtwistle; Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 1.

9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical term.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the poet, Wendy Cope. After spending 15 years as a primary school teacher, Wendy released her first collection of poetry and it became a surprise bestseller. She's since published three more collections and her poetry has become renowned for being humorous and terse, even when tackling serious subjects such as death. As well as writing poetry for children, she has been commissioned to write poetry to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Endellion String Quartet, and the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. As well as sharing some of her favourite classical music, Wendy will be discussing her work and life as a writer, and reading some of her music-inspired poetry.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Rob's in the Modern era exploring a work by Sir Harrison Birtwistle which heralded a coming of age for Modernist music in Britain.

11am
Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli
Rob's featured artist is the Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. Sinopoli was not only an immensely talented and original conductor, but also a gifted composer, whose sudden death at the age of 54 was particularly tragic when you consider that many celebrated conductors continue to work well past retirement age. Rob's choices include highly distinctive performances of symphonies by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt and Webern, as well as Beethoven's 1st Piano Concerto (with Martha Argerich as soloist) and the conclusion of Richard Strauss' hair-raising operatic masterpiece Salome.

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.1 in C major
Martha Argerich (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor).

3 hours

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Wed 19 Apr 2017 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bundeslied, Op.122

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Trio in E flat for clarinet, viola and piano, K 498 ('Kegelstatt')

    Performer: Karl Leister. Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: James Levine.
    • DG.

  • Richard Strauss

    4 Lieder, Op.27: No.4, 'Morgen'

    Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • EMI.

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Syncopated Clock

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • The Music of Leroy Anderson.
    • MERCURY.
    • 8.

  • Conlon Nancarrow

    Studies for Player Piano: Nos.3c, 6 and 11

    Performer: Joanna MacGregor.
    • COLLINS.

  • Henry Purcell

    In nomine in G minor, Z 747; Three parts upon a ground, Z 731

    Ensemble: Ricercar Consort. Director: Philippe Pierlot.
    • MIRARE.

  • Robert Schumann

    Phantasiest眉cke, Op.12: Des Abends

    Performer: Alfred Cortot.
    • MUSIC & ARTS.

  • Wendy Cope's First Choice

    • Thomas Morley

      O mistress mine

      Performer: Desmond Dupr茅. Singer: Alfred Deller.
      • EMI.

  • Wendy Cope's Second Choice

    • Franz Schubert

      Du bist die Ruh, D.776

      Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
      • EMI.

  • Wendy Cope's Third Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Cantata BWV56, Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen: "Endlich wird mein Joch"

      Singer: Hanno M眉ller鈥怋rachmann. Performer: Christian Hommel. Ensemble: K枚lner Kammerorchester. Conductor: Helmut M眉ller鈥怋r眉hl.
      • NAXOS.

  • Louise Farrenc

    Overture No 1 in E minor, Op 23

    Orchestra: NDR Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
    • CPO.

  • Music in Time: Modern

    • Harrison Birtwistle

      The Triumph of Time

      Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
      • DECCA.

  • Arist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Concerto No.1 in C, Op.15

      Performer: Martha Argerich. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
      • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, meine Freude - BWV 229

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

Musical Challenge

The mystery musical concept being described was 'rubato'.

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