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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Handel Concerti Grossi, Op 6; Music in Time: Clementi's Piano Sonata No 2; Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Brahms: Piano Trio No 1.

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 today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.

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: Classical
Rob takes a trip to the Classical period with a recording of Clementi's Piano Sonata No. 2 Op. 34, a piece with many features in common with Beethoven's 'PathΓ©tique' Sonata, written just three years later.

11am
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.

Brahms
Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8
Suk Trio.

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Thu 26 May 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G major, Kk.146

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Te Deum

    Choir: Tölzer Knabenchor. Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Conductor: Bruno Weil.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Traditional Irish

    Jefferson and Liberty (The Gobby O)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Phoenix Munich. Conductor: Joel Frederiksen.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in D major, Op 6 No 5

    Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Trad.

    The Rose Blooms

    Performer: Susanna Gilmore. Music Arranger: Sorrell. Music Arranger: Jeannette. Singer: Nell Snaidas. Singer: Amanda Powell. Ensemble: Apollo’s Fire. Conductor: Jeannette Sorrell.
    • AVIE.

  • Max Reger

    Romance for violin and small orchestra in G major, Op.50 No.1

    Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender. Orchestra: Konzerthausorchester Berlin. Conductor: Lothar Zagrosek.
    • HYPERION.

  • Edward Elgar

    Harmony Music no.1

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major, RV.425

    Performer: Paul O’Dette. Ensemble: Parley of Instruments. Director: Peter Holman.
    • HYPERION.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    Danse (African Suite Op.35)

    Orchestra: Chicago Sinfonietta. Conductor: Paul Freeman.

  • Florence Price

    Symphony no.3 in C minor (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic. Conductor: Apo Hsu.
    • KOCH.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Piano Sonata in G minor, Op.34 No.2

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • RCA.

  • Daniel FranΓ§ois Esprit Auber

    Fra Diavolo - Overture

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

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8

    Ensemble: Sukovo trio.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Symphony in C minor

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.

  • John Wilson

    Take, O Take Those Lips Away

    Performer: Wilfred Brown. Ensemble: The Elizabethan Consort of Viols.

Mystery Object

Answer: Mandolin

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  • Thu 26 May 2016 09:00
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