Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Friday - Rob Cowan with Kate Adie

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Sonatinas; Music in Time: Telemann's Overture Suite; Artist of the Week: conductor Sakari Oramo, featured in Grieg's Piano Concerto.

9am
My favourite...sonatinas. Throughout the week Rob showcases a range of 'small sonatas' by composers including CPE Bach, Busoni and Ravel. Sonatinas are usually lighter in feel and less demanding than a full sonata, but it's still possible to pack plenty into these smaller forms. Expect flair, technical wizardry, whimsy and more besides.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery place.

10am
Rob's guest is the veteran correspondent and author Kate Adie. Kate became a familiar face on our televisions as the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's chief news correspondent, reporting from war zones around the world and covering major events including the Tiananmen Square Massacre, the Rwandan genocide and the Gulf War. She went on to write a number of books including Corsets to Camouflage: Women and War and her autobiography The Kindness of Strangers. She currently presents From Our Own Correspondent on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4. Kate talks about her career and shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Ethel Smyth and Carl Michael Bellman, and Smetana's Ma Vlast, which she heard whilst reporting on the 'Velvet Revolution' in Prague.

10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time with Telemann's Overture Suite in E major. The suite, an ordered set of instrumental pieces, was extremely popular in the Baroque period, and the later addition of an overture to make an "overture suite" became particularly fashionable in Germany, with Telemann having claimed to have written around two hundred examples of this form.

11am
To mark the start of the Proms tonight, Rob shares a recording by the conductor who will open proceedings, Sakari Oramo. Oramo teams up with his 'First Night' orchestra, the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony, in an acclaimed recording of Grieg's Piano Concerto.

Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16
Javier Perianes (piano)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra
Sakari Oramo (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Fri 15 Jul 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Sommerfugl (Lyric Pieces, Op.43 No.1)

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Trumpet Overture, Op.101

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    En los trigales [ In the Wheat Fields ]

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • INTENSE MEDIA.
  • My favourite... sonatinas

    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Keyboard Sonatina in E major, Wq.100

      Performer: Miklós Spányi. Ensemble: Concerto Armonico. Conductor: Péter Szűts.
      • BIS.
  • Alma Mahler-Werfel

    Die stille Stadt

    Performer: Simon Lepper. Singer: Karen Cargill.
    • LINN.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Overture to The Beggar's Opera, Op.43

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dir, Seele des Weltalls, K.429

    Singer: Werner Krenn. Choir: Edinburgh Festival Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.
    • DECCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Divertissement sur des motifs originaux francais in E minor, D823

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Performer: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.
  • Kate Adie's Choice No. 1

    • Max Bruch

      Violin Concerto No.1 in G minor: 2nd mvt

      Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
      • DG.
  • Rob's choice for Kate Adie

    • Franz Berwald

      Symphony No.3 in C major 'Sinfonie singuliere' (2nd movement)

      Orchestra: Helsingborgs Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Okko Kamu.
      • NAXOS.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Kaddisch

    Performer: Bertrand Chamayou.
    • Erato.
  • Music in Time: Baroque

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Overture Suite in E flat major for recorder and strings, TWV55:Es2

      Performer: Carin van Heerden. Orchestra: Orfeo Baroque Orchestra. Director: Carin van Heerden.
      • CPO.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail - 'Constanze, dich wiederzusehen'

    Singer: Peter Schreier. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Otmar Suitner.
    • Berlin Classics.
  • Thomas Tallis

    O nata lux de lumine

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • Tallis & Byrd: Cantiones Sacrae 1575: Alamire, David Skinner.
    • Obsidian.
    • 8.
  • Artist of the Week: Sakari Oramo

    • Edvard Grieg

      Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 16

      Performer: Javier Perianes. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
  • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

    The Presentation in the Temple (Mystery Sonata No 4)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Marcin ÅšwiÄ…tkiewicz. Performer: David Miller.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • John Foulds

    3 Mantras for orchestra (Op.61b), no.2; Mantra II (of bliss)...

    Conductor: Sakari Oramo. Choir: CBSO Youth Chorus. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • John Foulds: Mirage/Three Mantras from Avatara: Oramo/CBSO.
    • Warner.
    • 2.
  • Edward Elgar

    5 Partsongs... for male chorus (Op.45), no.4; It's oh to be a wild wind

    Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Stephen Westrop. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Elgar: Choral Songs: London Symphony Chorus/Handley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 7.

Mystery Place

Answer: Aldeburgh

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Jul 2016 09:00

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.