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Tuesday with Rob Cowan - Schubert's Quartettsatz, Christine Rice, Sunday Night TV

Rob Cowan takes us through the morning with the best in classical music, and we hear from leading British mezzo Christine Rice.

Rob Cowan takes us through the morning with the best in classical music including :

0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for Schubert's "Quartettsatz" D.703.
Written at the end of Schubert's short life, with lyrical and poignant melodies, the Quartettsatz is a masterpiece of writing for string quartet, even though it was never to become a completed work.

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 As part of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Opera Season, leading British mezzo Christine Rice talks about her cultural influences and inspirations.

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Tue 3 Oct 2017 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • William Walton

    Johannesburg Festival Overture

    Conductor: Sir Charles Groves. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Walton: Spitfire Prelude and Fugue etc.: RLPO, Groves.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Claude Debussy

    Children's corner for piano; The Snow is dancing

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Impromptu in B minor, Op. 5/5

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rapsodie espagnole

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartettsatz in C minor

    Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.
    • CBS.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Penelope - Prelude

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra, Berlin. Conductor: Robin Ticciati.
    • Linn.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for oboe d'amore, strings and continuo after BWV 209

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Music Arranger: Andreas N. Tarkmann. Conductor: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Trinity Baroque. Orchestra: The English Concert.
    • Voices Of Bach Albrecht Mayer.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Aram Khachaturian.
    • Legends - Khachaturian: Spartacus: Wiener Philharmoniker.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse sacrΓ©e et danse profane

    Performer: Emmanuel Ceysson. Orchestra: Paris Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • Works by Ravel/Debussy.
    • NAIVE.
    • 11-12.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in E flat major, D.897, 'Notturno'

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Schubert: Piano Trio in B flat: Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Trio Sonata in D minor 'La Follia'

    Performer: Federico Guglielmo. Ensemble: L' Arte Dell' Arco.
    • Brilliant Classics 95200.
    • Brilliant Classics.
    • 21.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Rape of Lucretia, Op. 37 - Flowers bring to every year

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Gustav Mahler

    What the Wild Flowers Tell Me

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi.
    • ERATO.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elias, Op. 70 - Part II (opening)

    Singer: Letizia Scherrer. Choir: Kammerchor Stuttgart. Conductor: Frieder Bernius.
    • Carus.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Waltz for Mippy

    Performer: Øystein Baadsvik. Performer: Niklas Sivelâv.
    • BIS.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ging heut' Morgen ΓΌber's Feld (Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen)

    Performer: Leonard Bernstein. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • Sony.

  • Aaron Copland

    El salon Mexico

    Performer: Shura Cherkassky. Music Arranger: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Decca.

  • Max Bruch

    Romance in F major Op.85

    Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • CΓ©cile Chaminade

    Etude Romantique Op.132

    Performer: Johann Blanchard.
    • MDG.

  • Vittorio Monti

    Czardas

    Performer: Avi Avital. Performer: Richard Galliano.
    • Avi Avital - Between Worlds.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 18.

Broadcast

  • Tue 3 Oct 2017 09:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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