大象传媒

9am
My favourite... 茅tudes. Rob showcases a selection of these works which many composers regarded not as traditional studies but demanding miniatures. He considers the innovation of Chopin, who transformed a traditionally dry exercise into an exploration of virtuoso technique, and features works ranging from Vieuxtemps's Concert 脡tudes and Rachmaninov's 脡tudes-Tableaux to Stravinsky's Four Orchestral 脡tudes and Bart贸k's Three 脡tudes Op. 18.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?

10am
Rob's guest this week is the actor and director Samuel West. Samuel has received accolades for his work across stage and screen. He was nominated for a Bafta for his role in the acclaimed film Howards End, earned a Critics' Circle Award for his role as Hamlet with the Royal Shakespeare Company and has performed to critical acclaim in West End productions including Lucy Prebble's play Enron. Currently playing Frank Edwards in the popular television series Mr Selfridge, Samuel also has experience behind the scenes directing plays and operas. He has toured with the Choir of London and provided narration for groups including the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Nash Ensemble, besides making a number of appearances at the Proms. Samuel will be talking about his life on and off stage and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at 10am.

10:30
Rob places Music in Time. Today it's the turn of the Modern era and Ligeti's ground-breaking 1961 orchestral work Atmosph猫res, whose washes of tone-colour - like a kind of shifting sonic plasma - are familiar to millions from the soundtrack to Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey. The beguiling textures of Atmosph猫res are actually composed of multiple webs of strictly controlled part-writing - a technique Ligeti christened 'micropolyphony'.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the pianist Artur Rubinstein. Few musicians in living memory were more widely loved than Artur Rubinstein, so it's not surprising that he was always in demand as a chamber player. Though a musical giant in his own right, Rubinstein would happily - and regularly - join forces with his younger peers in pursuit of performances that combine wisdom and spontaneity. Throughout the week Rob shares some of Rubinstein's best ensemble playing, in works including Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor, Faur茅's Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor and Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata.

Ravel
Piano Trio
Jascha Heifetz, violin
Gregor Piatigorsky, cello
Artur Rubinstein, piano.