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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jean Sprackland

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love the Songs of Gabriel Faure; Artist of the Week: conductor Ferenc Fricsay. Prokofiev: Symphony No 1 in D, Op 25 (Classical).

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the songs of Gabriel Faur茅' Throughout the week Rob dips into the songbooks of Faur茅, with choices including Le Secret, Apr猫s un r锚ve and Lydia. Rob highlights Faur茅's subtle word settings, unusual harmonies and the sympathetic way he depicts nature and the world around him, with recordings by singers including G茅rard Souzay, Pierre Bernac and Anne Sofie von Otter.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?

10am
Especially for National Poetry Day, Rob's guest this week is the poet and writer Jean Sprackland. Jean's first collection of poetry, Tattoos for Mothers Day was shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize for Best First Collection and her second book, Hard Water, was on the shortlist for the T.S. Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Poetry Award. Her third collection, Tilt, won the Costa Poetry Award and The Guardian described her most recent book of poetry, Sleeping Keys, as 'an uncommon pleasure to read'. Jean has also written a series of short stories and a non-fiction work titled Strands, a series of meditations on walking the beaches between Blackpool and Liverpool. She will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob every day at 10am.

10.30am
To celebrate the new 麻豆约拍 Ten Pieces project, Rob chooses music that complements this exciting selection of works.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Ferenc Fricsay. One of the most acclaimed conductors of his generation, and famed for conducting without a baton, Hungarian-born Fricsay studied violin and piano with Bart贸k and composition with Kod谩ly. After going into hiding during the Nazi occupation of Budapest, he conducted the first symphony concert in the Hungarian capital after the liberation in 1945, and was appointed as conductor of the Budapest Opera and the Budapest Philharmonic Orchestra. Fricsay went on to forge an international career, conducting orchestras including the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, the Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He performed his final concerts with the London Philharmonic Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall before his untimely death from stomach cancer at the age of 48. Throughout the week Rob showcases gems from Fricsay's small but precious catalogue of recordings.

Prokofiev
Symphony No.1 in D major Op.25 'Classical'
Berlin RIAS Symphony Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Gavotte (Masques et bergamasques)

    Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Marche des Combattants en rondeau (Alceste)

    Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No.2

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Franz Konwitschny.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...FAURE SONGS

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      En sourdine, Op 58 No 2

      Performer: J茅r么me Ducros. Singer: Philippe Jaroussky.
      • WARNER.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Second Galop (Cinderella, Act 3, Op.87)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • EMI.

  • Gustavo Leguizamon

    El silbador

    Performer: Pablo M谩rquez.
    • ECM.

  • Darius Milhaud

    La cheminee du roi Rene

    Ensemble: Les Vents Francais.
    • WARNER.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • EMI.

  • JEAN SPRACKLAND'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Olivier Messiaen

      13. Le Courlis cendre (Catalogue d'oiseaux, Book 7)

      Performer: Anatol Ugorski.
      • DG.

  • JEAN SPRACKLAND'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Edward Elgar

      Sospiri, Op.70 (for strings, harp & organ)

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
      • EMI.

  • Georges Bizet

    L鈥橝rlesienne: Suite No.2

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenoble. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Concert Fantasy on Gounod's Faust

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Jonathan Feldman.
    • DG.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: FERENC FRICSAY

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Symphony No.1 in D major, Op.25 鈥楥lassical鈥�

      Orchestra: RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
      • DG.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Bolero

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅. Performer: Ami Roge. Performer: Paul Clarvis. Performer: Joby Burgess.

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Fete-Dieu a Seville (Iberia, Book 1)

    Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • SONY.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: FERENC FRICSAY

    • Franz Liszt

      Les pr茅ludes

      Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.
      • DG.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.5: Preludio (Moderato)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
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Britten
Serenade for tenor, horn and strings: Epilogue
Barry Tuckwell (horn)
DECCA

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  • Wed 7 Oct 2015 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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