Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: S'il vous plait: Mie Miki (accordion); Christopher Hogwood; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Double Violin Concerto, BWV1043.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: S?il vous plait ? Mie Miki (accordion), BIS CD 1804

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.

10.30am
This week Rob Cowan is joined by the philosopher Alain de Botton, a keen Baroque enthusiast. Alain has written on the topics of love, travel, architecture and literature, and his books have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' His first book, Essays in Love, was published when he was twenty-three, and has sold two million copies worldwide. Other titles include How Proust can change your Life (which earned him a global audience) and The Art of Travel. In 2009 he was appointed Heathrow's first Writer-in-Residence and wrote a book about his experiences, A Week at the Airport. His latest book, Religion for Atheists, was published in the UK last year.

Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education, which challenges traditional conceptions about knowledge, directing it towards life, rather than knowledge for its own sake. He has had several TV series, including The Perfect Home and Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness, and in 2011 he presented a series of talks for the 大象传媒 Radio 4 programme, A Point of View.

11am: Rob?s Essential Choice

Bach: Double Violin Concerto, BWV 1043
Jaap Schroder and Christopher Hirons (violins)
Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

11.16
Dvorak: Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubel铆k (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Wed 20 Mar 2013 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Next

Thursday - Rob Cowan

See all episodes from Essential Classics

Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Cypresses No. 11

    Performers: Cypress String Quartet

    • AVIE AV2275.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger: Prelude

    Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

    • DG 453 485-2.

  • 9.14: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in C minor, K.11

      Performers: Mie Miki (accordion)

      • BIS CD 1804.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Trio for oboe, bassoon and piano

    Performers: The Melos Ensemble

    • EMI 918514-2.

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Christopher Hogwood

    • Anthony Holborne

      Heres Paternus

      Performers: Sneak鈥檚 Noyse, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

      • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 433 193-2.

  • William Byrd

    Though Amaryllis dance in green

    Performers: Judith Nelson (soprano), Sneak鈥檚 Noyse, Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 433 193-2.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Preludes: in B minor, Op. 32 No. 10 and in B major, Op. 32 No. 11

    Performers: Peter Donohoe (piano)

    • ST MICHAEL CLASSICAL COLLECTION 2584/5734.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 47 in G

    Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 443 777-2.

  • 10.30: Alain de Botton's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Mass in B minor: Agnus Dei

      Performers: Michael Chance (counter tenor), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 415 514-2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C minor (Il sospetto)

    Performers: Midori and Pinchas Zukerman (violins), St Paul Chamber Orchestra

    • PHILIPS 416 389-2.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto polonais (3rd movement, Allegro)

    Performers: The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • OISEAU LYRE 411 949-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite from Alcina (Minuet and Musette)

    Performers: Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra of New York, Willem Mengelberg (conductor)

    • PRISTINE AUDIO PASC 378.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Double Concerto, BWV 1043

      Performers: Jaap Schroder and Christopher Hirons (violins), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

      • L鈥橭ISEAU-LYRE 421 500-2.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 70

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubel铆k (conductor)

    • DG 457 902-2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 20 Mar 2013 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.