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Friday - Rob Cowan with Vikki Stone

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Steve Reich; Artist of the Week: Karel Ancerl, featured conducting Stravinsky's Petrushka.

9am
My favourite... secular choral works. This week a selection of Rob's favourite secular choral works come under the spotlight, from Brahms's Goethe-inspired 'Song of the Fates', which reminds us of the consequences for mankind if the gods are disobeyed, to Bart贸k's 'Village Scenes', which tell the story of everyday village life - via contributions from Beethoven, Schubert and Percy Grainger.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?

10.00am
Rob's guest this week is the comedian, composer and actress Vikki Stone. Best known for her original comedy songs, Vikki has performed sell-out stand up shows at the Edinburgh Festival and the Soho Theatre, as well as on tour, and has made appearances on 大象传媒 One's The John Bishop Show and Radio 4's The Now Show. Earlier this year, Vikki presented the 大象传媒 Proms 'Proms Unplucked' podcast, bringing all the backstage news from the festival. Throughout the week pianist and flautist Vikki talks about mixing comedy and music and about learning how to conduct, and she shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including music for the flute by Phillipe Gaubert and Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony, a work she performed in her school orchestra.

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: Modern
Rob places Music in Time. Today the spotlight is on the Modern era and Steve Reich's Music for Mallet Instruments, Voices and Organ. Reich once compared listening to his music with standing on a shoreline and watching - or feeling - the waves wash over your bare feet. The texture of this piece is particularly sensual, its tonal palette shifting almost imperceptibly. If you're having a difficult morning, use it as therapy!

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Czech conductor Karel Ancerl, one of the most gifted musicians of the last century. The Second World War interrupted Ancerl's early conducting career and, although he survived the war, forming an orchestra whilst imprisoned at Theresienstadt concentration camp, his wife Valy and young son Jan were murdered at Auschwitz. After the war ended, Ancerl returned to conducting with a renewed vigor, raising the Czech Philharmonic to its standing among the greatest orchestras in the world during the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout the week Rob shares a selection of Ancerl's many recordings with the Czech Philharmonic, including a benchmark disc of music from Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, Brahms's Double Concerto with violinist Josef Suk and cellist Andr茅 Navarra, and Janacek's vivid narrative Taras Bulba, as well as gripping accounts of Beethoven's 5th Symphony and Stravinsky's Petrushka.

Stravinsky
Petrushka (1947 version)
Czech Phiharmonic Orchestra
Karel Ancerl (conductor).

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Fri 25 Nov 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Three movements from Petrushka: I. Russian Dance

    Performer: Grigory Sokolov.
    • MELODIYA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in B flat major K.269

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Mozart: Violin Concertos.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 4.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade in A flat major, Op.47

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.

  • MY FAVOURITE...SECULAR CHORAL MUSIC

    • B茅la Bart贸k

      Three Village Scenes for female voices

      Choir: SLUK Slovakian Folkensemble Choir. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Joseph Horovitz

    Music Hall Suite

    Ensemble: Budapest Brass Quintet.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Hipocondrie, ZWV187

    Ensemble: Capriccio Barockorchester. Conductor: Alex Potter.
    • PAN CLASSICS.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in E major, Op 10 No 3

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes, Act 1: 'Now the Great Bear and Pleiades'

    Singer: Peter Pears. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • DECCA.

  • VIKKI STONE'S CHOICE

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Scheherazade, Op.35: IV. Festival at Bagdad - The Sea - The Ship

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
      • RCA.

  • Rob's choice for Vikki Stone

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Octet in E flat major, Op.20: IV. Presto

      Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Israel Baker. Performer: Joseph Stephansky. Performer: Arnold Belnick. Performer: William Primrose. Performer: Virginia Majewski. Performer: Gregor Piatigorsky. Performer: Gabor Rejto.
      • RCA.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Notturno in G minor

    Performer: Judith Pfeiffer.
    • Dreyer Gaido.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: Modern

    • Steve Reich

      Music for mallet instruments, voices and organ

      Ensemble: Steve Reich and Musicians.
      • NONESUCH.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Folies francoises, ou les Dominos, from 3rd Book of Harpsichord Pieces

    Performer: Blandine Verlet.
    • ASTREE.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Petrushka (1947 version)

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • William Byrd

    Circumdederunt me dolores mortis

    Ensemble: Contrapunctus. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Dances of Marosszek

    Performer: Andor F枚ldes.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fuguing: No.8 Allegro molto

    Composer: William F. Malloch. Orchestra: Ensemble of 40 Los Angeles string, woodwind and percussion players. Conductor: Lukas Foss.
    • SHEFFIELD LAB.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Britten
Peter Grimes: 鈥淣ow the Great Bear and Pleiades鈥�
Peter Pears (tenor)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA
听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
Chopin
Etude in E major, Op.10 No.3
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
DG

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