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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Glenn Gould; Classical Consequences; Artist of the Week: conductor Lorin Maazel; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Chorale Prelude, BWV 651.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - Glenn Gould'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for the polarising pianist Glenn Gould in music by Byrd, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bach.

9.30am
Classical Consequences
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the story and tell us what happens next.

10am
The radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock joins Rob in the studio. Francine was one of the original presenters of 91热爆 Radio 4's Front Row and later moved to The Film Programme, as well as writing about film for Prospect magazine. On television she has presented Newsnight, The Money Programme and The Antiques Show, and she is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand. As a novelist, she has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre. Francine shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.

10.30am
Artist of the Week
Conductor Lorin Maazel in music by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Respighi, Schubert and Prokofiev.

11am
This week's Essential Choices feature the genre of the Prelude.
Bach
Chorale Prelude, BWV 651: 'Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott'
Ton Koopman (organ).

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Thu 6 Nov 2014 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Schubert

    Die B眉rgschaft, D435; No.13, R盲uberlied

    Choir: Bavarian Radio Chorus. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Valse-Fantasie

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Anatole Fistoulari.
    • GUILD.

  • 5 Reasons to Love Glenn Gould

    • Johannes Brahms

      Intermezzo in A, Op.118 No.2

      Performer: Glenn Gould.
      • SONY.

  • Alberto Ginastera

    Dances from Estancia Op. 8

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.

  • Hector Berlioz

    A selection from Romeo and Juliet; Pt 2

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.
    • DG.

  • Alonso Lobo

    Versa est in luctum

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Franz Liszt

    Trois 茅tudes de concert, S144; No.2, La Leggierezza

    Performer: Sergio Fiorentino.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.

  • Francine Stock's Choice No. 1

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Perfection - Black Swan

      • SONY.

  • Francine Stock's Choice No. 2

    • Mica Levi

      Under the Skin

  • Francine Stock's Choice No. 3

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Sonata No.17 in D: 鈥楾he Tempest鈥�: Adagio

      Performer: Alfred Brendel.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Corelli

    Gavotta, from Sonata in G, op.5 no.10

    Performer: Michala Petri (recorder). Performer: Mahan Esfahani (harpsichord).
    • OUR.

  • Artist of the Week: Lorin Maazel

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony no.2 in B flat, D 125

      Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: Belgian National Radio Philharmonic Orchestra.
      • BR.

  • Brumel

    Ave caelorum Domina

    Performer: Brabant Ensemble. Performer: Stephen Rice (conductor).
    • HYPERION.

  • Essential Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Chorale Prelude, BWV 651: 'Fantasia super Komm, heiliger Geist, Herre Gott'

      Performer: Ton Koopman.
      • ERATO.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Rhapsody No. 3 in A flat

    Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • WARNERS.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Symphony no.5, op.50

    Performer: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor).
    • SONY.

Musical Challenge - Classical Consequences

What happened next?

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Liszt stopped playing; the Tsar asked why he had done so. In reply, Liszt bowed deeply and said: 鈥淲hen Nicholas speaks, Music herself must be silent.鈥�

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    91热爆 Radio 3

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