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Monday - Rob Cowan with Cerys Matthews

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Vienna - waltzes by the Strauss family; Brahms Experience: Brahms: Tragic Overture; Essential Choice: Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea (excpt).

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is singer, songwriter, author and broadcaster Cerys Matthews.

9am
A selection of music including Rob's Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - a collection of waltzes and polkas by the Strauss family with Fritz Reiner conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

9.30am
Mapping the Music
Take part in today's music-related challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10.00am
Rob is joined by Cerys Matthews, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. A founder member of Welsh rock band Catatonia, Cerys has since enjoyed a successful solo career and is now a popular broadcaster and author. She talks to Rob about the influence that classical music has had on her life, and about her role as an ambassador for the 大象传媒 initiative Ten Pieces, which aims to inspire a generation of children to get creative with classical music.

10.30am
Rob celebrates the performers who reveal the emotion in Brahms' great works, as part of Radio 3's Brahms Experience.
Tragic Overture
Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
This week Rob's Essential Choices at 11am are inspired by the 大象传媒's Ten Pieces season. He takes listeners on a musical journey, each day recommending a work that's connected to one of the Ten Pieces.

Monteverdi
Coronation of Poppea "Pur ti miro, pur ti godo"
Poppea: Helen Donath
Nero: Elisabeth Soderstrom
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).

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Mon 6 Oct 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • CD of the Week

    • Johann Strauss II

      Thunder and Lightning Polka

      Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
      • RCA Living Stereo.

  • Johann Strauss II

    On the Beautiful Blue Danube

    Conductor: Fritz Reiner. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
    • RCA Living Stereo.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat, RV423

    Performer: Roel Dieltiens. Ensemble: Ensemble Explorations.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Artists of the Week: Great Brahmsian Performers

    • Johannes Brahms

      Klavierstucke, Op.76: Nos.1 & 2

      Performer: Mikhail Rudy.
      • EMI.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento, K. 136

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

  • Trad. arr. Hughes

    She mov'd thro' the fair

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Ailish Tynan.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 1

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV 565

      Performer: Marie鈥怌laire Alain.
      • Erato.

  • Cerys Matthews' Choice No. 2

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Peter and Wolf (excerpt)

      Narrator: David Bowie. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
      • BMG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    German Dance, WoO 8 No 11

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Simax.

  • Artists of the Week: Great Brahmsian Performers

    • Johannes Brahms

      Tragic Overture, Op.81

      Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
      • Decca.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise-fantasy for piano (Op.61) in A flat major

    Performer: Nelson Goerner.
    • Chopin, Polonaise-Fantasie: Nelson Goerner.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.
    • 1.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Coronation of Poppea: "Pur ti miro, pur ti godo"

    Singer: Helen Donath. Singer: Elisabeth S枚derstr枚m. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.

  • Essential Choice (Building a Library Recommendation)

    • Johannes Brahms

      Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor

      Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: Gautier Capu莽on. Performer: Nicholas Angelich. Performer: G茅rard Causs茅.
      • Virgin.

Musical Challenge - Mapping the Music

Answer:
Ireland

Music played:
Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No. 1
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)

Broadcast

  • Mon 6 Oct 2014 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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