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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Cerys Matthews

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Vienna - waltzes by the Strauss family; Brahms Experience: Brahms: Piano Trio No 2; Essential Choice: Sibelius: Lemminkainen's Return.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.

9am
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

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

10.00am
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the 91热爆 initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.

10.30am
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Piano Trio No.2 in C, Op.87
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
Leonard Pennario (piano)

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob's Essential Choices at 11am are inspired by the 91热爆's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.

Sibelius
Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Legends, Op.22)
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Leif Segerstam (conductor).

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Tue 7 Oct 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Arabesque Musical Box, Op.76/9

    Performer: Annette Servadei.
    • Regis.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso, Op.3 No.6 in D major

    Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre.
    • Erato.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    String Quartet No. 1

    Ensemble: Goldner Quartet.
    • Decca.

  • CD of the Week

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Invitation to the Dance

      Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Orchestrator: Hector Berlioz. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
      • RCA Living Stereo.

  • Anon.

    Danza del hacha

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.

  • Julius Fucik

    Florentine March, Op.124

    Conductor: V谩clav Neumann. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Apex.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Valse caprice

    Performer: Ulf Hoelscher. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (St Matthew Passion, BWV.244)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.
    • Archiv.

  • Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 1

    • Johann Strauss II

      Fruhlingstimmen, Op.410

      Singer: Erna Sack.

  • Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 2

    • Henry Purcell

      Thou Knowest Lord

      Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: Martin Neary.
      • Sony.

  • Anton Fils

    Sinfonia in G minor

    Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln.
    • TELDEC.

  • Artists of the Week: Great Brahmsian Performers

    • Johannes Brahms

      Piano Trio No.2 in C, Op.87

      Performer: Gregor Piatigorsky. Performer: Leonard Pennario. Performer: Jascha Heifetz.
      • RCA.

  • Essential Choice

    • Jean Sibelius

      Lemminkainen's Return (Lemminkainen Legends, Op 22)

      Orchestra: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leif Segerstam.
      • Ondine.

  • Artists of the Week: Great Brahmsian Performers

    • Johannes Brahms

      Intermezzo in E flat major, Op 117 No 1

      Performer: Glenn Gould.
      • Sony.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Symphony in D minor

    Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini. Orchestra: Philhamonia Orchestra.
    • Warner.

  • Reynaldo Hahn

    A Chloris

    Singer: Susan Graham. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Onyx.

Musical Challenge - Mystery Place

Clue:
I was founded as part of a monastery in the 13th century, and have been a place of worship ever since. Martin Luther, Frederich the Wise of Saxony, Felix Mendelssohn, and Kaiser Wilhelm I are among the noted people who are portrayed in my stained glass windows. J. S. Bach was director of music here for over 25 years, and there is still a famous boyy choir associated with me.

Answer:
St Thomas' Church, Leipzig

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