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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

With Rob Cowan. Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Lassus: De profundis clamavi; Artist of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles, featured in Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete.

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: identify a piece of music played backwards.

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: Renaissance
Rob places Music in Time, going back to the Renaissance to sample one of the most celebrated settings of the Penitential Psalms of David. Orlande de Lassus, the Netherlandish composer, published his set of seven psalms in 1584; the sixth, De profundis clamavi, for 5 voices, is considered one of the highpoints of Renaissance polyphony.

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.

Berlioz
Les nuits d'茅t茅
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Thu 17 Nov 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Orlande de Lassus

    Allala, pia Calia (Italian Madrigal)

    Choir: Ensemble Cl茅ment Janequin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Circus polka

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • BELART.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures from an exhibition for piano; Ballet of the unhatched chicks

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Mussorgsky: Pictures From An Exhibition: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Virgin Classics.
    • 9.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Les Roses d'Ispahan

    Performer: Gonzalo Soriano. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles.
    • EMI.
  • John Dowland

    'Now, oh now I needs must part' with the Frog Galliard

    Performer: Thomas Dunford. Singer: Iestyn Davies.
    • Hyperion.
  • Richard Wagner

    The Mastersingers of Nuremberg: Prelude

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo capriccioso, Op.14

    Performer: Javier Perianes.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    De profundis (De profundis clamavi ad te Domine no.6)

    Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Orlande de Lassus

    Vignon, vignon, vignette

    Ensemble: Ensemble Cl茅ment Janequin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Les nuits d'ete

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • TESTAMENT.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Felix Mendelssohn
Rondo Capriccioso
Javier Perianes (piano)
HARMONIA MUNDI

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  • Thu 17 Nov 2016 09:00

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