Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Al Murray
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Piano Duos; Music in Time: Bach; Artists of the Week: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, featured in Tchaikovsky's Souvenir de Florence.
9am
My favourite... piano duos. If three's a crowd, two's definitely company, and when it comes to piano duos - whether for two pianos or for four hands at a single instrument - that company can be richly rewarding. Rob's favourite piano duos include works by Mozart, Schubert, Bart贸k and Lutoslawski, as well as a magical vintage recording of a waltz by Arensky - definitely not to be missed!
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the stand-up comedian Al Murray. Best known for his alter-ego 'The Pub Landlord', Al has performed sell-out shows around the world, as well as making television appearances at The Royal Variety Performance and Live at the Apollo. Al has written books in his pub landlord persona, including The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Let's Re-Great Britain. Outside of his pub landlord character, Al has presented Al Murray's Road to Berlin, about the last phase of the Second World War, for the Discovery Channel and Al Murray's German Adventure for 91热爆 Four. He is currently touring his new show 'Let's Go Backwards Together'. Al shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Bach, Handel and Orff, and talks about playing percussion, and reminisces about his performance on the triangle in Dvor谩k's New World Symphony, every day at 10am.
10.30am
Power of Three - The next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 91热爆 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time. Today Rob travels to the Baroque era with two movements by Bach, or rather two radically different versions of the same music: the Prelude from his Partita in E for solo violin and the sparkling showpiece for organ and orchestra, the Sinfonia to his cantata 'Wir danken dir Gott, wir danken dir'.
11am
Rob's artists of the week are the late Sir Neville Marriner's orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, a superb gathering of players who can turn their hands to virtually any repertoire and make a handsome job of it. We'll hear them in masterpieces from Bach to Bart贸k, dropping in on Mozart, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky along the way.
Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor.
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Music Played
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
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Edvard Grieg
Holberg suite (Op.40) vers. for string orchestra, 1st mvt Praeludium
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- DECCA.
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Johann Strauss II
Mephistos Hollenrufe Waltz, Op.101
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.- DECCA.
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My favourite...piano duos
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Franz Schubert
Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D.940
Performer: Ingrid Haebler. Performer: Ludwig Hoffmann.- PHILIPS.
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Gustav Holst
Suite for Military Band No.2 in F major, Op 28b
Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- MERCURY.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance, Op.65
Performer: Hamish Milne.- CRD.
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Igor Stravinsky
Two Poems of Konstantin Bal'mont
Singer: Marni Nixon. Ensemble: Columbia Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.- SONY.
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Al Murray's Choice No.1
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Carl Orff
Carmina Burana: Dance
Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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Al Murray's Choice No.2
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No.9 'From the New World': III. Scherzo
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.- DG.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Fantasia on Russian Themes, Op 33
Performer: Nathan Milstein. Conductor: Robert Irving. Orchestra: Robert Irving Orchestra.- EMI.
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MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Partita no.3 in E major BWV.1006 (Prelude)
Performer: Rachel Podger.- Johann Sebastian Bach Vol.2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Sinfonia (Cantata No 29, 'Wir danken dir, Gott, wir danken dir')
Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.5 in C minor, Op.10 No.1
Performer: Maria Grinberg.- MELODIYA.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Academy of St Martin in the Fields
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sextet in D minor, Op.70, 'Souvenir de Florence'
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
'Ich will den Kreuzstab gerne tragen', BWV56
Performer: Barry McDaniel. Choir: Heinrich-Sch眉tz-Chor Heilbronn. Orchestra: South-West German Chamber Orchestra Pforzheim.- WARNER.
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Jarom铆r Weinberger
Six Bohemian Songs and Dances: Nos. 5 & 6
Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Gerd Albrecht.- CAPRICCIO.
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The music played:
Stravinsky
Petrushka, Tableau 3: Ballerina's dance
The Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG
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- Tue 25 Oct 2016 09:0091热爆 Radio 3