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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Handel Concerti Grossi, Op 6; Music in Time: Franck's Symphony; Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Beethoven's Piano Trio (Ghost).

9am
My favourite... Handel Concerti Grossi Op. 6. Rob shares his favourite Baroque masterpieces from Handel's Twelve Grand Concertos. The line up features performances of these energetic concertos by the Academy of Ancient Music directed by Andrew Manze, Concentus Musicus Wien and Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Il Giardino Armonico under Giovanni Antonini and Thurston Dart conducting the Boyd Neel Orchestra.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am
Rob's guest is the author Malorie Blackman. Malorie has written over sixty books for children and young readers and was the Children's Laureate from 2013 to 2015. Her books include Pig-Heart Boy, which was turned into a BAFTA-winning television series, Cloud Busting, and the critically acclaimed Noughts and Crosses series. Malorie was honoured with the Eleanor Farjeon Award in recognition of her contribution to children's books, and has also received an OBE for her services to children's literature. Malorie will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by the 19th century composer Samuel Coleridge Taylor, and Florence Price, the first African-American woman to have a composition performed by a major symphony orchestra.

10:30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob heads back to the Romantic period as he explores the use of cyclic forms in Franck's Symphony in D minor.

11.10am
Rob's artist of the week is the Suk Trio. Throughout the week Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned piano trio, sharing recordings including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio in D Minor Op. 49, Dvorak's Piano Trio No.3 in F minor, Op.65 and Brahms's Piano Trio No.1 in B major, Op.8.

Beethoven
Piano Trio in D major, Op.70 No.1 'Ghost'
Suk Trio.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in G major, BWV 568

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B minor, Op.6 No.12

    Orchestra: The Boyd Neel Orchestra. Conductor: Boyd Neel.
    • DECCA.
  • Muriel Herbert

    The Lake Isle of Innisfree

    Singer: James Gilchrist. Performer: David Owen Norris.
    • LINN.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Barcarolle in F sharp major, Op.60

    Performer: Stefan Askenase.
    • DG.
  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Jota aragonesa (Capriccio brillante)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Kaleidoscope: An Orchestral Extravaganza: Mackerras, LSO.
    • Mercury.
    • 13.
  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry Ripe

    Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.
    • NAXOS.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op 27 No 2, 'Moonlight' (1st mvt, Adagio sostenuto)

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • Beethoven: Moonlight Sonatas: Radu Lupu.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Menuets I/II & Gigue (Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV1007)

    Performer: Mischa Maisky.
    • DG.
  • Jacobus Clemens non Papa

    Ego flos campi

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • C茅sar Franck

    Symphony in D minor

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • RCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Trio in D major, Op 70, 'Ghost'

    Ensemble: Sukovo trio.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-Tableaux, Op.33

    Performer: Sergio Fiorentino.
    • PIANO CLASSICS.

By Association

Answer: Britten and Bridge

The music played:

Britten
Aria italiana (Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge)
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA

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