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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Richard Stilgoe

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Vocal Chamber Music; Musical challenge; Artists of the Week: The Jerusalem Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Schmitt: The Tragedy of Salome.

With Rob Cowan. Including 9.00 A selection of music including Five Reasons to Love Vocal Chamber Music. 9.30 Musical challenge: Mapping the Music. 10.00 Rob's guest this week is songwriter, lyricist and musician Richard Stilgoe, who selects his favourite pieces of music. 10.30 Artists of the Week: the Jerusalem Quartet. 11.00 Rob's Essential Choice: With Rob Cowan and his guest Richard Stilgoe.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Vocal Chamber Music'. Throughout the week Rob enjoys vocal quartets, sextets, duets and trios by Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Shostakovich.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to three musical extracts, try and find a connection and see if you can suggest the missing fourth.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the songwriter, lyricist, and musician Richard Stilgoe. From writing musicals with Andrew Lloyd Webber (Cats, Starlight Express, Phantom of the Opera) appearances on Nationwide and That's Life and working as a double act with Peter Skellern - music has been at the heart of Richard's career. Richard will be sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am.

10.30am
This week Rob features recordings by the Jerusalem Quartet. Former 91热爆 New Generation Artists, the quartet has been carving out a remarkable reputation in both string quartet and chamber music repertoire. Rob showcases their recordings of Haydn, Mozart, Schumann, Schuann, Brahms and Shostakovich.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Schmitt
The Tragedy of Salome
Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic
Sascha Goetzel (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Ottokar Nov谩膷ek

    Moto perpetuo

    Ensemble: Sinfonia of London. Music Arranger: Douglas Gamley.
    • VOCALION.

  • 5 Reasons to Love Vocal Chamber Music

    • Franz Schubert

      St盲ndchen (Zogernd, leise) D.920

      Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Performer: Philip Mayers. Director: Marcus Creed.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Valse nobles et sentimentales

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • SONY.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in A minor, RV 420

    Performer: Roel Dieltiens. Ensemble: Ensemble Explorations.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Trad.

    Londonderry air (Farewell to Cucullain) for violin and piano

    Performer: Fritz Kreisler. Performer: Franz Rupp. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Kreisler: Original Compositions and Arrangements.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 13.

  • Richard Stilgoe's Choice No. 1

    • Earl Robinson

      The Ballad of Joe Hill

      Performer: Paul Robeson.
      • REVELATION.

  • Richard Stilgoe's Choice No. 2

    • Franz Schubert

      Winterreise - Gute Nacht D.911

      Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Hans Hotter.
      • EMI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in F minor, D.935 No.1

    Performer: Maria Joao Pires (piano).

  • Artist of the Week: Jerusalem Quartet

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in C major, Op 33 No 3, 'The Bird'

      Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Gwendoline (Overture)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
    • Mercury.
    • 7.

  • Essential Choice

    • Florent Schmitt

      Tragedy of Salom茅

      Orchestra: The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sascha Goetzel.
      • Onyx.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Serenade for two violins and viola

    Performer: Alexander Sitkovetsky. Performer: Benjamin Beilman. Performer: Paul Neubauer.
    • Music@Menlo.

  • Julius Fucik

    Der alte Brummbar (The Bear with a Sore Head)

    Performer: Jiri Formacek. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • WARNER APEX.

Broadcast

  • Wed 25 Feb 2015 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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