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Breaking Free: Monday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Modern; Breaking Free, featuring the Brodsky Quartet in Schoenberg's String Quartet in D (1897).

9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: which location is being depicted in this piece of music?

10am
Rob's guest this week is the psychotherapist Susie Orbach who besides specializing in couple and relationship counselling is the author of the book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' which has been continuously in print since 1978. Susie is also a broadcaster whose series 'In Therapy' on 大象传媒 Radio 4 has attracted large audiences and garnered critical acclaim. Susie is Co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London and New York, she lectures widely across the world and continues to practice in London. She talks to Rob about how music fits into her life and chooses works including music by Handel, Bach, Bernstein and Philip Glass.

10.30am
Music in Time: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
Rob places music in time, this week looking at five works from the Modern period which reflect the tumultous nature of musical thought and expression in the early years of the 20th century.

The Listening Service Extra: Heir to the German Mainstream
2/12 Tom Service illustrates why Schoenberg felt such a strong lineage from Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Bach.

11am Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
As part of Radio 3's focus on the works of Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School, Rob explores the development of Arnold Schoenberg's musical style and language through his String Quartets, from the Dvorak-like early String Quartet in D of 1897 and the Second String Quartet with soprano, which sets the poetry of Stefan George, to the serial masterpieces: the Third Quartet, commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, and the Fourth, written in 1936.

Schoenberg
String Quartet in D major (1897)
Brodsky Quartet.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Alexander von Zemlinsky

    Landliche Tanze, Op.1: No.4 Very fast and light

    Performer: Silke Avenhaus.
    • NAXOS.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Presto in C major

    Ensemble: Quatuor Diotima.
    • NAIVE.
  • Featured Performance

    • Joseph Haydn

      Piano Sonata in E minor, H.16:34

      Performer: Christian Ihle Hadland.
      • SIMAX.
  • Claude Debussy

    No. 2; Fetes (Nocturnes for Orchestra)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Trio for clarinet, viola and piano, K.498

    Performer: Pascal Moragu猫s. Performer: Vladimir Mendelssohn. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • PRAGA DIGITALS.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Un bel d矛 vedremo (Madam Butterfly)

    Singer: Mirella Freni. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • Mirella Freni: Arias by Puccini/Verdi/Rossini.
    • Decca.
    • 10.
  • Susie Orbach's Choice No.1

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto for 2 violins, strings and continuo in D minor, BWV1043 - 2nd mvt, Adagio

      Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Igor Oistrakh. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Goossens.
      • DG.
  • Music in Time: Modern

    • Alban Berg

      Seven Early Songs (nos.3 & 4)

      Singer: Barbara Bonney. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
      • DECCA.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major, Op 117 No 1

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in D minor, K 421

    Performer: Hagen Quartett.
    • Mozart 6 Haydn Quartets.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    String Quartet 3, Op. 30

    Performer: Arditti Quartet.
    • Arnold Schoenberg 2.
    • Montaigne.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    String Quartet in D major (1897)

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • VANGUARD.
  • Aaron Copland

    John Henry: A Railroad ballad (1940)

    Orchestra: SWR Radio Orchestra Kaiserlautern. Conductor: Ji艡i St谩rek.
    • HANSSLER.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 93 in D, Hob. I:93

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • Sony.

Musical Challenge: Mapping the Music

The answer to today's Musical Challenge was 'Japan'. The music played was the humming chorus from Puccini's Madam Butterfly.

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