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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Purcell's Te Deum; Artist of the Week: soprano Victoria de los Angeles, featured performing Rossini.

9am
My favourite...Schubert chamber works. Throughout the week Rob focuses on Schubert's smaller-scale chamber works, from sonatinas for violin and piano that Schubert wrote when he was a teenager, to music from his final years. These shorter pieces are often remarkable essays, the Notturno for Piano Trio as sublime as the great slow movement of the String Quintet in C and his urgent Quartettsatz, a tantalising hint of a great string quartet that might have been, but never was.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a track from the world of rock music.

10.00am
Especially for the week of the London Jazz Festival, Rob's guest is the celebrated jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal. Three-times winner of British Jazz Singer of the Year, Clare performs regularly at the world-renowned Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and has appeared at Glastonbury and the 大象传媒 Proms. Her acclaimed albums include the chart topping Don't Talk, And So It Goes and Hey Ho. Clare's most recent album Twelve O'Clock Tales, recorded with the Hall茅 orchestra, was released earlier this year. She is also a familiar voice on radio, as the host of Big Band Special and more recently with her own weekly show presenting the best in big band, swing and jazz. Clare will be talking about her singing career and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob 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.

Followed by
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time, travelling back to the Baroque era. The setting is London, November 1694, and Henry Purcell has just composed a Te Deum, to celebrate St Cecilia's Day. Performed in St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, it was the first time an English Te Deum had been given an orchestral accompaniment, and Purcell's magnificent work, with its brilliant trumpet parts, came to be regularly performed on festive occasions.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles. De los Angeles was one of the best-loved singers of the post-war period, eloquent in opera and song, and a charming stage presence, with a sweet, immediately distinctive voice. Rob selects his highlights from her wide recorded repertoire. There's music from her native Spain by Falla and Granados, a song-cycle by Berlioz, and arias from operas by Rossini and Massenet, as well as an acclaimed recording of Puccini's La Boh猫me with Jussi Bj枚rling, in which de los Angeles recreates the role of Mimi, the part in which she made her operatic debut at the age of 18.

Rossini
"Una voce poco fa", from The Barber of Seville
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vittorio Gui (conductor).

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Wed 16 Nov 2016 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ray Noble

    Love is the sweetest thing

    Performer: Simon Little. Performer: Ben Reynolds. Singer: Clare Teal.
    • ABSOLUTE.

  • My Favourite... Short Chamber Works by Schubert

    • Franz Schubert

      String Trio No.2 in B flat major, D.581

      Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: William Primrose. Performer: Gregor Piatigorsky.
      • RCA.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    10 Preludes Op.23 (no.6 in E flat major)

    Performer: Steven Osborne.
    • Hyperion.

  • John Blow

    Ode for St Cecilia's Day of 1684: Music's the cordial of a troubled breast

    Singer: Richard Wistreich. Ensemble: Parley of Instruments.
    • Hyperion.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for two recorders in A minor, TWV52:a2

    Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt. Director: Michael Schneider.
    • CPO.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C major BWV.846 (The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Decca.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Seasons: November (On the Troika)

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • ONYX.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No 1 in D major, 'Titan' (2nd mvt, 'Blumine')

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • Mahler: Symphony no.1: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra/Rattle.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Clare Teal's Choice No. 1

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Madrigals, Book 8: Lamento della ninfa - IV. Amor

      Singer: N煤ria Rial. Singer: Cyril Auvity. Singer: Jan Van Elsacker. Singer: Nicolas Achten. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
      • ERATO.

  • Clare Teal's Choice No. 2

    • George Gershwin

      Rhapsody in Blue (jazz band version)

      • ASV.

  • Cole Porter

    Always true to you in my fashion

    Music Arranger: Guy Barker. Singer: Clare Teal. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Stephen Bell.
    • MUD RECORDS.

  • Music in Time: Baroque

    • Henry Purcell

      Te Deum and Jubilate (for St Cecilia's Day, 1694)

      Ensemble: Taverner Consort, Choir and Players. Director: Andrew Parrott.
      • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantasia No 7 in C minor

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • VIRGIN VERITAS.

  • Artist of the Week: Victoria de los angeles

    • Gioachino Rossini

      The Barber of Seville: 'Una voce poco fa'

      Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vittorio Gui.
      • EMI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in E flat major, Op.64 No.6

    Ensemble: Aeolian Quartet.
    • LONDON.

  • Artist of the Week: Victoria de los angeles

    • Maurice Ravel

      Five Popular Greek Melodies

      Orchestrator: Manuel Rosenthal. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Soci茅t茅 des Concerts du Conservatoire. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
      • EMI.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony in G minor 'Zwickauer'

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • AUDITE.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in A flat major, Op.17 No.3

    Performer: Pavel Kolesnikov.

Classical Roots

Answer: Procol Harum's 'Repent Walpurgis' is based on music by J.S.聽Bach (Prelude in C major, WTC Book 1) and Tchaikovsky (Piano Concerto No.1)

The music played:

Procol Harum
Repent Walpurgis
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