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Friday - Rob Cowan with Malorie Blackman

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Handel Concerti Grossi; Music in Time: The English Madrigal School; Artist of the Week: Suk Trio, featured in Schubert's Piano Trio in B flat, D898.

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 and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

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: Renaissance
The spotlight is on the Renaissance period and The English Madrigal School, with music including William Byrd's This sweet and merry month of May (known as the first English madrigal), Thomas Morley's Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping and Thomas Tomkins's Weep no more thou sorry boy.

11am
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.

Schubert
Piano Trio in B flat major, D898
Suk Trio.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Strauss II

    Leichtes Blut, Op 319

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • David Popper

    Serenade

    Performer: Hillel Zori. Performer: Arnon Erez.
    • CELLO CLASSICS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in C minor, Op.6 No.8

    Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    August (The Year)

    Performer: Lauma Skride.
    • Sony.
  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro, Op 70

    Performer: Marcello Rota. Performer: Daniel L茅vi.
    • EDELWEISS.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in A minor, Op.12 No.1 (Memories of Bohemia in the form of a polka)

    Performer: Jitka Cechova.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    II. Romance: Andante (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Waltz 2 (Suite no.2 for jazz band)

    Orchestra: Russian State Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Dmitry Yablonsky.
    • NAXOS.
  • Trad.

    Deep River

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Milton Kaye. Music Arranger: Heifetz. Music Arranger: Jascha.
    • NAXOS.
  • George Frideric Handel

    I rage... I melt.. O Ruddier than the Cherry (Acis and Galatea)

    Singer: Oscar Natzke. Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Goossens.
    • ATOLL.
  • William Byrd

    This sweet and merry month of May

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • All at once well met: English Madrigals: The King's Singers.
    • EMI.
    • 35.
  • Thomas Morley

    Arise, awake, you silly shepherds sleeping

    Choir: I Fagiolini.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Thomas Tomkins

    Weep no more thou sorry boy

    Choir: I Fagiolini.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenent Kije - Symphonic Suite Op.60

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • Sony.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in B flat major, D 898

    Ensemble: Sukovo trio.
    • WARNER APEX.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade No. 4 in F minor, Op. 52

    Performer: Nikita Magaloff.
    • Philips.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Prague

The music played:

Smetana
Vysehrad (Ma Vlast)
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl
SUPRAPHON

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