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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Vikki Stone

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Beethoven: Fantasia in G minor; Artist of the Week: Karel Ancerl, featured conducting Janacek's Taras Bulba.

9am
My favourite... secular choral works. This week a selection of Rob's favourite secular choral works come under the spotlight, from Brahms's Goethe-inspired 'Song of the Fates', which reminds us of the consequences for mankind if the gods are disobeyed, to Bart贸k's 'Village Scenes', which tell the story of everyday village life - via contributions from Beethoven, Schubert and Percy Grainger.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10.00am
Rob's guest this week is the comedian, composer and actress Vikki Stone. Best known for her original comedy songs, Vikki has performed sell-out stand up shows at the Edinburgh Festival and the Soho Theatre, as well as on tour, and has made appearances on 91热爆 One's The John Bishop Show and Radio 4's The Now Show. Earlier this year, Vikki presented the 91热爆 Proms 'Proms Unplucked' podcast, bringing all the backstage news from the festival. Throughout the week pianist and flautist Vikki talks about mixing comedy and music and about learning how to conduct, and she shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including music for the flute by Phillipe Gaubert and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, a work she performed in her school orchestra.

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. Today the spotlight is on the Classical era and Beethoven's remarkable Fantasia in G minor - a piece that's rather like we're eavesdropping on him improvising - starting this idea, swapping to another, then changing his mind again. And yet it all adds up musically.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Czech conductor Karel Ancerl, one of the most gifted musicians of the last century. The Second World War interrupted Ancerl's early conducting career and, although he survived the war, forming an orchestra whilst imprisoned at Theresienstadt concentration camp, his wife Valy and young son Jan were murdered at Auschwitz. After the war ended, Ancerl returned to conducting with a renewed vigor, raising the Czech Philharmonic to its standing among the greatest orchestras in the world during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout the week Rob shares a selection of Ancerl's many recordings with the Czech Philharmonic, including a benchmark disc of music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Brahms's Double Concerto with violinist Josef Suk and cellist Andr茅 Navarra, and Janacek's vivid narrative Taras Bulba, as well as gripping accounts of Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Stravinsky's Petrushka.

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Taras Bulba, rhapsody for orchestra
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor).

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Wed 23 Nov 2016 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta: I. Allegretto

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Ruler of the Spirits Op.27

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • CPO.

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen ('Z枚gernd leise'), D.920

    Singer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Choir: Capella Bavariae. Performer: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • WARNER.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto in F major for organ and orchestra, Op.4 No.4

    Performer: Ton Koopman. Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.
    • ERATO.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    Le Merle noir for flute and piano

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.
    • WARNER.

  • Franz Liszt

    Les Monrts - Oraison

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (5 Ruckert-Lieder)

    Singer: Violeta Urmana. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Ben Folds

    Concerto for piano and orchestra: Movement 1

    • NewWest Records.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.33 in B flat major, K.319: II. Andante moderato

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide (Overture)

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • SONY.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Fantasia in G minor, Op.77

    Performer: Rudolf Serkin.
    • SONY.

  • arr. Aleksander Sedlar Bach

    Chaconne from Partita No 2 for violin solo, BWV 1004

    Performer: Nemanja Radulovi膰. Ensemble: Double Sens.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Sieben Lieder - Chanson

    Performer: Melinda Paulsen. Performer: Angela Gassenhuber.
    • Trouba Disk.

  • Nadia Boulanger

    Chanson

    Performer: Melinda Paulsen. Performer: Angela Gassenhuber.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Taras Bulba (rhapsody for orchestra)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • FIDELIO.

  • Emilia Amper

    Trueman

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quartet in E flat Op.47

Heard on Screen

Answer: Birdman (2014)

The music played:

Mahler
"Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen"
Violeta Urmana (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG

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  • Wed 23 Nov 2016 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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