Friday - Rob Cowan with Vikki Stone
With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Steve Reich; Artist of the Week: Karel Ancerl, featured conducting Stravinsky's Petrushka.
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. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?
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: Modern
Rob places Music in Time. Today the spotlight is on the Modern era and Steve Reich's Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ. Reich once compared listening to his music with standing on a shoreline and watching - or feeling - the waves wash over your bare feet. The texture of this piece is particularly sensual, its tonal palette shifting almost imperceptibly. If you're having a difficult morning, use it as therapy!
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.
Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
Czech Phiharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor).
Last on
More episodes
Music Played
-
![]()
Igor Stravinsky
Three movements from Petrushka: I. Russian Dance
Performer: Grigory Sokolov.- MELODIYA.
-
![]()
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in B flat major K.269
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Mozart: Violin Concertos.
- Harmonia Mundi.
- 4.
-
![]()
Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade in A flat major, Op.47
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.- SONY.
-
MY FAVOURITE...SECULAR CHORAL MUSIC
-
![]()
B茅la Bart贸k
Three Village Scenes for female voices
Choir: SLUK Slovakian Folkensemble Choir. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- PHILIPS.
-
-
![]()
Joseph Horovitz
Music Hall Suite
Ensemble: Budapest Brass Quintet.- HUNGAROTON.
-
![]()
Jan Dismas Zelenka
Hipocondrie, ZWV187
Ensemble: Capriccio Barockorchester. Conductor: Alex Potter.- PAN CLASSICS.
-
![]()
Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Study in E major, Op 10 No 3
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DG.
-
![]()
Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes, Act 1: 'Now the Great Bear and Pleiades'
Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.- DECCA.
-
VIKKI STONE'S CHOICE
-
![]()
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade, Op.35: IV. Festival at Bagdad - The Sea - The Ship
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA.
-
-
Rob's choice for Vikki Stone
-
![]()
Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat major, Op.20: IV. Presto
Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Israel Baker. Performer: Joseph Stephansky. Performer: Arnold Belnick. Performer: William Primrose. Performer: Virginia Majewski. Performer: Gregor Piatigorsky. Performer: Gabor Rejto.- RCA.
-
-
![]()
Fanny Mendelssohn
Notturno in G minor
Performer: Judith Pfeiffer.- Dreyer Gaido.
-
MUSIC IN TIME: Modern
-
![]()
Steve Reich
Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ
Ensemble: Steve Reich and Musicians.- NONESUCH.
-
-
![]()
Fran莽ois Couperin
Les Folies francoises, ou les Dominos, from 3rd Book of Harpsichord Pieces
Performer: Blandine Verlet.- ASTREE.
-
![]()
Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.- SUPRAPHON.
-
![]()
William Byrd
Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Ensemble: Contrapunctus. Director: Owen Rees.- SIGNUM.
-
![]()
Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Dances of Marosszek
Performer: Andor F枚ldes. -
![]()
Johann Sebastian Bach
The Art of Fuguing: No.8 Allegro molto
Composer: William F. Malloch. Orchestra: Ensemble of 40 Los Angeles string, woodwind and percussion players. Conductor: Lukas Foss.- SHEFFIELD LAB.
Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Britten
Peter Grimes: 鈥淣ow the Great Bear and Pleiades鈥�
Peter Pears (tenor)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA
听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Chopin
Etude in E major, Op.10 No.3
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG
Broadcast
- Fri 25 Nov 2016 09:0091热爆 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.
Time Travellers: the podcast
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.