Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Handel Concerti Grossi, Op 6; Music in Time: Franck's Symphony; Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Beethoven's Piano Trio (Ghost).
9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.
10:30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob heads back to the Romantic period as he explores the use of cyclic forms in Franck's Symphony in D minor.
11.10am
Rob's artist of the week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.
Beethoven
Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 'Ghost'
Suk Trio.
Last on
Music Played
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in G major, BWV 568
Performer: Simon Preston.- DG.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Overture on Hebrew Themes
Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.- EMI.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op.6 No.12
Orchestra: The Boyd Neel Orchestra. Conductor: Boyd Neel.- DECCA.
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Muriel Herbert
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.- LINN.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60
Performer: Stefan Askenase.- DG.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Jota aragonesa (Capriccio brillante)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
- Mercury.
- 13.
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Frank Bridge
Cherry Ripe
Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.- NAXOS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight' (1st mvt, Adagio sostenuto)
Performer: Radu Lupu.- Beethoven: Moonlight Sonatas: Radu Lupu.
- Decca.
- 1.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Menuets I/II & Gigue (Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV1007)
Performer: Mischa Maisky.- DG.
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Jacobus Clemens non Papa
Ego flos campi
Choir: Stile Antico.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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CΓ©sar Franck
Symphony in D minor
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.- RCA.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Trio in D major, Op 70, 'Ghost'
Ensemble: Sukovo trio.- SUPRAPHON.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Etudes-Tableaux, Op.33
Performer: Sergio Fiorentino.- PIANO CLASSICS.
By Association
Answer: Britten and Bridge
The music played:
Britten
Aria italiana (Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA
Broadcast
- Wed 25 May 2016 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3