Portraits Day
Potraits Day: Rob Cowan presents musical portraits with journalist Helen Wallace, and his guest of the week: portrait painter Jonathan Yeo. With music by Berlioz and Berg.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Frederick Fennell conducting the London Pops and Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestras:
MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 356-2
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the clarinettist Eduard Brunner.
10.30am
Today is Portraits Day on Radio 3 where each piece is reflecting a person in music, creating an extensive musical gallery of personalities. Today's programme will be exploring the people behind the music, and finding out why they have inspired composers. Today and throughout the week Rob Cowan's guest is the portrait painter Jonathan Yeo. Jonathan introduces his essential pieces of classical music. Rob is also joined throughout Monday morning by journalist Helen Wallace, with whom he will discuss the various musical portraits featured on Essential Classics, ranging from Elizabethan figures to Mao Tse Tung.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Berg
Violin Concerto
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam
Igor Markevitch (conductor)
DECCA 480 0481.
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Hector Berlioz
Overture Benvenuto Cellini
Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)
- RCA 09026 61400-2.
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Granville Bantock
Variations for Orchestra on the theme HFB, Helena Variations
Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
- HYPERION 聽CDA66810.
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Adams
The Chairman Dances
Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
- EMI CDC 555051.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
L'Aly Rupalich
Performers: Mikl贸s Sp谩nyi (harpsichord)
- BIS 1198.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Andante favori, WoO 57
Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
- DG 479 0014.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Two Portraits: No. 2 'Grotesque'
Performers: Philharmonia Hungarica, Antal Dorati (conductor)
- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 432017.
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Richard Arnell (completed Martin Yates)
Symphony No. 7 'Mandela' (1st movement)
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Martin Yates (conductor)
- DUTTON EPOCH CDLX 7255.
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10:30: Jonathan Yeo's Choices
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John Barry
Chaplin (original soundtrack recording)
Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, John Barry (conductor)
- EPIC SOUNDTRAX 4726022.
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Mascagni/Rantala
Intermezzo (portrait of Pavarotti)
Performers: Ioro Rantala (piano)
- ACT95042.
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Leonard Bernstein
Four Anniversaries Nos. 1-3
Performers: Alexander Frey (piano)
- KOCH 3-7426-2.
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Alban Berg
Violin Concerto
Performers: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Igor Markevitch (conductor)
- DECCA 480 0481.
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Benjamin Britten
Variations on a theme of Frank Bridge
Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)
- DECCA 417 509-2.
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