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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Cerys Matthews

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Vienna - waltzes by the Strauss family; Brahms Experience: Brahms: Serenade No 2; Essential Choice: Schumann: Konzertstuck for 4 horns and orchestra.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.

9am
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

9.30am
Find the Fourth
Take part in our daily musical challenge: spot the theme linking three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth.

10.00am
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the 麻豆约拍 initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.

10.30am
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Serenade No.2
London Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob's Essential Choices at 11am are inspired by the 麻豆约拍's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.

Schumann
Konzertst眉ck for 4 Horns and Orchestra
Dale Clevenger, Richard Oldberg, Thomas Howell, Norman Schweikert (horns)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor).

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Wed 8 Oct 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Leroy Anderson

    The Irish Washerwoman Eastman

    Conductor: Frederick Fennell. Orchestra: Eastman Rochester Pops Orchestra.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Bacchanale (Samson et Delila)

    Conductor: Paul Paray. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • CD of the Week

    • Johann Strauss II

      Roses from the South

      Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
      • RCA Living Stereo.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Sonata Corellisante No.2 in A, TWV42 A5

    Ensemble: Rebel. Director: J枚rg-Michael Schwarz.
    • Dorian.

  • anon

    Find the Fourth

  • Artist of the Week: Great Brahmsian Performers

    • Johannes Brahms

      Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op 118 No 6

      Performer: Rudolf Firku拧n媒.
      • EMI.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    A Midsummer Night's Dream: Scherzo & Nocturne

    Orchestra: Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • Decca.

  • Trad.

    Down by the Salley Gardens

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Performer: Phyllis Spurr.
    • DECCA.
    • 417 192.2.
    • 20.

  • Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 1

    • Gabriel Prokofiev

      Concerto for Turntables and Orchestra (excerpt)

      Performer: DJ Yoda. Orchestra: Heritage Orchestra.

  • Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 2

    • Bjarte Eike

      Savn (A Tune for Signe)

      Performer: Bjarte Eike. Ensemble: Barokksolistene.
      • BIS.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Suite Espanola, Op. 47

    Music Arranger: Rafael Fr眉hbeck de Burgos. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
    • 480 7064.
    • 1-3.

  • Artist of the Week: Great Brahmsian Performers

    • Johannes Brahms

      Serenade No.2

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
      • LSO Live.

  • Rob's Essential Choice

    • Robert Schumann

      Konzertst眉ck for four horns and orchestra, Op 86

      Performer: Dale Clevenger. Performer: Richard Oldberg. Performer: Thomas Howell. Performer: Norman Schweikert. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
      • Decca Eloquence.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet, Op.20

    Ensemble: Janacek and Smetana Quartets.

Musical challenge - Find the Fourth

The singers we heard:

Maria Callas as Violetta in Verdi's La Traviata

Lucia Pavarotti in Donizetti's La Fille du Regiment

Byrn Terfel in the Toreador's Song from Bizet's Carmen.


The missing voice was the alto voice from the S A T B standard set of voices.

Broadcast

  • Wed 8 Oct 2014 09:00
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