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Monday - Rob Cowan with Michael Morpurgo

Discover definitive recordings of classical music with your trusted guide Rob Cowan. His guest is children's author Michael Morpurgo.

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Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the three clues and identify a mystery musical person.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the author Michael Morpurgo. Michael is one of the UK's best-loved children's authors, novels such as Private Peaceful, War Horse, and The Butterfly Lion are now classics. He's a former Children's Laureate and a four-time Children's Book Award winner; he received his fourth in June 2017 for An Eagle in the Snow. Many of his novels have been adapted into plays, films, operas and ballets - most famously War Horse - and the themes of war, the countryside and animals have become familiar in Michael's story-telling. As well as discussing his writing, Michael shares his passion for classical music, choosing a selection of his favourite works by composers including Mozart, Purcell and Henry Wood.

10.30am
Music on Location: Vienna
This week Rob explores music connected with Vienna, focusing today on the relationship between two of the city's most celebrated Classical composers, Mozart and Haydn.

11am
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Founded in 1888, the orchestra takes its name from its concert hall, the Concertgebouw, which is regarded as one of the world's finest. Despite its near 130-year history, the orchestra has only had eight Chief Conductors: Willem Kes, Willem Mengelberg, Eduard van Beinum, Eugen Jochum, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, Mariss Jansons, and Daniele Gatti who took over in 2016. Known today as a Royal institution, it wasn't until 1998 that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands conferred the title upon the orchestra. Living up to this title, the orchestra is known for its 'velvet' strings, 'golden' brass sound, and the exceptional timbre of the woodwinds. This Friday (1st September) Daniele Gatti brings the orchestra to the 91热爆 Proms to play music by Bruckner and Wolfgang Rihm. Throughout the week Rob will be featuring the orchestra in recordings made under a number of different conductors: Haydn with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Richard Strauss with Mariss Jansons, Tchaikovsky with Riccardo Chailly, and Diepenbrock and Poulenc with Bernard Haitink.

Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier Suite
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Mariss Jansons (conductor).

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Music Played

  • John Philip Sousa

    The Stars and Stripes Forever

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Eduard van Beinum.
    • PHILIPS ELOQUENCE.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Crisantemi

    Ensemble: Arabella String Quartet.
    • Naxos.

  • Johannes Brahms

    3 Hungarian Dances [nos. 1, 3 and 10]

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Keyboard Sonata in A minor, Wq.62/21

    Performer: Ana-Marija Markovina.
    • H脛NSSLER CLASSIC.

  • George Butterworth

    With rue my heart is laden

    Singer: Bryn Terfel. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • DG.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in B flat major for 3 oboes, violins and continuo

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln.
    • Telemann: Wind Concertos: Musica Antiqua Koln, Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 5-7.

  • Otto Nicolai

    Moon chorus (The Merry Wives of Windsor)

    Choir: Wiener Singverein. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • SONY.

  • Herbert Howells

    Psalm 34 'Lo, the poor crieth' (Psalm Preludes Set 1)

    Performer: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.

  • Henry Purcell

    Hear my prayer, o Lord

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • DECCA.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Peter and the Wolf: A Triumphant Procession; The duck is alive in the wolf

    Narrator: Peter Ustinov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Ellis.
    • SANCTUARY RECORDS.

  • Ira Sankey

    Only Remembered

    Music Arranger: John Tams. Music Arranger: Harvey Brough. Singer: Tim van Eyken. Ensemble: Members of the War Horse company chorus.
    • SONY CLASSICS.

  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring: conclusion

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • RCA.

  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Autumn (6 脡tudes de concert- book 1 Op.35)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 013.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No.17 in B flat major, 'The Hunt'

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

  • Thomas Campion

    My love hath vow'd

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Andreas Martin.

  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier Suite鈥��

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • RCO LIVE.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Duo concertant for violin and piano

    Performer: Ilya Gringolts. Performer: Peter Laul.
    • BIS.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Person

The mystery person was the conductor and organist, David Willcocks

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  • Mon 28 Aug 2017 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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