Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Michael Frayn
With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Schubert Lieder; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: conductor Simon Rattle; Rob's Essential Choice: Strauss: Metamorphosen.
Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Schubert Lieder'. Throughout the week Rob enjoys songs by Schubert, with performers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Jonas Kaufmann and Margaret Price.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the writer Michael Frayn; a successful dramatist, novelist and translator, Michael started out as an award-winning journalist. Michael will be sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am.
10.30am
This week Rob features recordings by Sir Simon Rattle, widely considered to be one of the foremost conductors of his time. Radio 3 continues its celebrations of Rattle's 60th birthday. Rob showcases some of his favourite recordings by the conductor, including music by Haydn, Szymanowski, Bruckner and Shostakovich, and featuring the Berlin Philharmonic, the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra and the Philharmonia.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Strauss
Metamorphosen
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA.
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Anonymous
Dit le Bourguynon
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Claude Debussy
Prelude a l鈥檃pres-midi d鈥檜n faune
Music Arranger: Erwin Stein. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Solists Ensemble.- Linn.
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5 REASONS TO LOVE... SCHUBERT LIEDER
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Franz Schubert
Die Forelle, D.550
Performer: Irwin Gage. Singer: Gundula Janowitz.- DG.
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Richard Wagner
Parsifal (Act 1 Prelude)
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Nocturne in D flat major, Op 27 No 2
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- DG.
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Peter Philips
Ave verum corpus Christi
Choir: Convivium Singers. Director: Norman Alexander.- Convivium Records.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- EMI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Octcego eto prezde ne znala (Iolanta)
Singer: Anna Netrebko. Orchestra: Slovenska filharmonija. Conductor: Emmanuel Villaume.- DG.
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MICHAEL FRAYN'S CHOICE NO. 1
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Richard Strauss
Rosenkavalier: Introduction, Scene 1
Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Singer: Christa Ludwig.- EMI.
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MICHAEL FRAYN'S CHOICE NO. 2
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Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F major (2nd mvt)
Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- EMI.
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Franz Schubert
Standchen, D.889
Performer: Felix G眉nther. Singer: Joseph Schmidt.- EMI.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: SIMON RATTLE
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 9: Finale (reconstructed)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon 脿 10, S.137
Performer: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.- Gabrieli: Music for Brass Vol. 3.
- Naxos.
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Essential Choice
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Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Decca.
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Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor, Op. 45
Performer: Louisa Stonehill. Performer: Nicholas Burns.- Nimbus Alliance.
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Edward Elgar
Sospiri, Op.70
Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Elgar: The Music Makers: Short Pieces: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra / Davis.
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Mystery Person
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