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Monday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Mozart: Symphony No 1; Artist of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles, featured in Puccini: La boheme (excerpt).

9am
My favourite...Schubert chamber works. Throughout the week Rob focuses on Schubert's smaller-scale chamber works, from sonatinas for violin and piano that Schubert wrote when he was a teenager, to music from his final years. These shorter pieces are often remarkable essays, the Notturno for Piano Trio as sublime as the great slow movement of the String Quintet in C and his urgent Quartettsatz, a tantalising hint of a great string quartet that might have been, but never was.

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

10.00am
Especially for the week of the London Jazz Festival, Rob's guest is the celebrated jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal. Three-times winner of British Jazz Singer of the Year, Clare performs regularly at the world-renowned Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and has appeared at Glastonbury and the 91热爆 Proms. Her acclaimed albums include the chart-topping Don't Talk, And So It Goes and Hey Ho. Clare's most recent album Twelve O'Clock Tales, recorded with the Hall茅 orchestra, was released earlier this year. She is also a familiar voice on radio, as the host of Big Band Special and more recently with her own weekly show presenting the best in big band, swing and jazz. Clare will be talking about her singing career and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob 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.

Followed by
Music in Time: Classical
Rob places Music in Time, with a Classical work by an eight-year-old Mozart, composed on a family trip to London in 1764. A plaque in Westminster marks the house where the Mozart family was staying, and where young Wolfgang wrote his Symphony No.1. This lively work gives a glimpse of his future potential, and introduces a musical motto that Mozart reused, among other places, in his final symphony, the Jupiter.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles. De los Angeles was one of the best-loved singers of the post-war period, eloquent in opera and song, and a charming stage presence, with a sweet, immediately distinctive voice. Rob selects his highlights from her wide recorded repertoire. There's music from her native Spain by Falla and Granados, a song-cycle by Berlioz, and arias from operas by Rossini and Massenet, as well as an acclaimed recording of Puccini's La Boh猫me with Jussi Bj枚rling, in which de los Angeles recreates the role of Mimi, the part in which she made her operatic debut at the age of 18.

Puccini
La Boh猫me: Act I (extract)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Jussi Bj枚rling (tenor)
RCA Victor Orchestra
Thomas Beecham (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Joaquin Valverde

    Clavelitos

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles.
    • 91热爆.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute: Overture

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI.
  • Dario Castello

    Sonata - 1629 no. 6

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Richard Egarr.
    • AAM RECORDINGS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Sonata No.1 in D major for violin and piano, D.384

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Oleg Maisenberg.
    • DG.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Titan' (2nd mvt, 'Blumine')

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mahler: Symphony no.1: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`7

    Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.
    • LINN.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Italian Girl in Algiers: Overture (arr. for wind ensemble)

    Music Arranger: Wenzel Sedlak. Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Hannu Lintu.
    • ONDINE.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    Clarinet Sonatina in G minor, Op.29: I. Allegro con brio

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique: V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.1 in E flat major, K.16

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Keyboard Sonata in G major, Op.5 No.3

    Performer: Sophie Yates.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Boheme, Act I (conclusion)

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Singer: Jussi Bj枚rling. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • NAXOS.
  • Trad.

    Csardas: Sag' mir immer wieder

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Ensemble: Ars Musicae de Barcelona.
    • Testament.
  • Enrique Granados

    La Maja y el ruisenor (Goyescas)

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Fr眉hbeck de Burgos.
    • EMI.
  • Joaqu铆n Turina

    Las musas de Andalucia, Op.93: No.9 Caliope

    Performer: Javier Perianes. Ensemble: Cuarteto Quiroga.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • William Byrd

    The Earl of Oxford's March

    Ensemble: Dowland Consort. Director: Jakob Lindberg.
    • Heavenly Noyse: Download Consort/Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Variations in F minor, Hob.XVII:6

    Performer: Andr茅 Tchaikowsky.
    • MELO CLASSIC.

By Association

Answer: Luigi Boccherini and Luciano Berio

The music played:

Berio
Quattro versioni originali della Ritirata Notturna di Madrid di L. Boccherini
Finish Radio Symphony Orchestra
Hannu Lintu (conductor)
ONDINE

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