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Friday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Delius's Florida Suite; Artist of the Week: soprano Victoria de los Angeles, featured in Massenet's Manon.

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: which location is the setting for this piece of 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: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time as he focuses on the Romantic era, and the first significant composition by a much-loved British musician. Frederick Delius wrote his Florida Suite in 1887, after spending time in America as manager of an orange plantation on the St John's River, where he was inspired by the lush scenery, and by the African-American spirituals that he heard there.

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.

Massenet
Manon (extract)
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Orchestre du Th茅芒tre National de l'Op茅ra-Comique
Pierre Monteux (conductor).

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Fri 18 Nov 2016 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Songs of the Auvergne: Chut, chut

    Performer: Jean鈥怭ierre Jacquillat. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux.
    • EMI.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Manon Lescaut, Act 3: Intermezzo

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartettsatz in C minor

    Ensemble: Juilliard String Quartet.
    • CBS.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Ebony concerto

    Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • HMV.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Three Cypresses for string quartet

    Ensemble: Zemlinsky Quartet.
    • PRAGA DIGITALS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

    Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS.

  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Music Arranger: William Whittaker. Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.
    • DECCA.

  • Duke Ellington

    Black, Brown and Beige: Part V (Come Sunday Interlude)

    Performer: Ray Nance. Performer: Duke Ellington. Orchestra: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • COLUMBIA.

  • James Knight

    Music for an Unwritten Play

    Orchestra: Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra. Director: Stan Kenton.
    • Capitol Jazz.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Annen Polka, Op 117

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Theodor Guschlbauer.
    • Champagne and Laughter: The Music of Johann Strauss II.
    • EMI.
    • 12.

  • Frederick Delius

    Florida Suite: I. Daybreak - Dance; II. By the River

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Suite in A major, Op.98 'American': I. Moderato

    Performer: Stefan Veselka.
    • NAXOS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major

    Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Milton Kaye. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • DG.

  • Jules Massenet

    Manon, Act 3 (excerpt)

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Ensemble: Orchestre du Th茅芒tre National de l鈥橭p茅ra鈥怌omique. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • TESTAMENT.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Suite No.2 in A minor: VII. Gavotte

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • HYPERION.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Songs of the Auvergne: Baillero

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux. Conductor: Jean鈥怭ierre Jacquillat.
    • EMI.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Songs of the Auvergne: Lo Fiolaire

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux. Conductor: Jean鈥怭ierre Jacquillat.
    • EMI.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Songs of the Auvergne: Brezairola

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre Lamoureux. Conductor: Jean鈥怭ierre Jacquillat.
    • EMI.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Sting Quartet no. 1 in D min Op.56 first movement

    Ensemble: Ehnes Quartet.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in C minor for violin and oboe, BWV.1060 (1st mvt)

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Alexandra Bellamy. Orchestra: Brecon Baroque.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Franz Liszt

    Consolation no.3 in D flat major

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • DG.

  • Tomas Barrera

    Adios, Granada

    Composer: Rafael Calleja. Performer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Music Arranger: Victoria de los 脕ngeles.
    • EMI.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Padstow, Cornwall

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Nov 2016 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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