大象传媒

9am
My favourite... piano duos. If three's a crowd, two's definitely company, and when it comes to piano duos - whether for two pianos or for four hands at a single instrument - that company can be richly rewarding. Rob's favourite piano duos include works by Mozart, Schubert, Bart贸k and Lutoslawski, as well as a magical vintage recording of a waltz by Arensky - definitely not to be missed!

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the stand-up comedian Al Murray. Best known for his alter-ego 'The Pub Landlord', Al has performed sell-out shows around the world, as well as making television appearances at The Royal Variety Performance and Live at the Apollo. Al has written books in his pub landlord persona, including The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Let's Re-Great Britain. Outside of his pub landlord character, Al has presented Al Murray's Road to Berlin, about the last phase of the Second World War, for the Discovery Channel and Al Murray's German Adventure for 大象传媒 Four. He is currently touring his new show 'Let's Go Backwards Together'. Al shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Bach, Handel and Orff, and talks about playing percussion, and reminisces about his performance on the triangle in Dvor谩k's New World Symphony, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Power of Three - The next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 大象传媒 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time. Today Rob travels to the Baroque era with two movements by Bach, or rather two radically different versions of the same music: the Prelude from his Partita in E for solo violin and the sparkling showpiece for organ and orchestra, the Sinfonia to his cantata 'Wir danken dir Gott, wir danken dir'.

11am
Rob's artists of the week are the late Sir Neville Marriner's orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, a superb gathering of players who can turn their hands to virtually any repertoire and make a handsome job of it. We'll hear them in masterpieces from Bach to Bart贸k, dropping in on Mozart, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky along the way.

Tchaikovsky
Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor.