Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Breaking Free: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Modern; Breaking Free, with the LaSalle Quartet and Margaret Price in a performance of Schoenberg's String Quartet No 2.

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: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical personality.

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 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: Twelve Tones.
6/12 Tom listens to Schoenberg's distillation and defence of his theory of composition with 12 tones: serialism in a nutshell.

11am Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
As part of Radio 3's focus on the works of Schoenberg and the 2nd 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 No.2 in F sharp minor, Op.10
Margaret Price (soprano)
LaSalle Quartet.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 4 Jan 2017 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Breaking Free: Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

Next

Breaking Free: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

See all episodes from Essential Classics

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op 12

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Incidental music to Prince Kholmsky (Overture)

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • REGIS.

  • Featured Work

    • Meredith Monk

      On Behalf of Nature (Eon)

      Performer: John Hollenbeck. Performer: Bohdan Hilash. Performer: Allison Sniffin.
      • On behalf of nature.
      • ECM.
      • 5.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations in F major, Op.34

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Alessandro Melani

    Salve Regina

    Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Director: Rinaldo Alessandrini.
    • NAIVE.

  • Trad.

    Whistle Hora

    Ensemble: Ferenc Santa Gypsy Band.
    • NAXOS.

  • Maddalena Casulana

    Il Vostro Dipartir

    Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Kod谩ly Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Mann.
    • TOCCATA CLASSICS.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Paris Quartet No 9 in G major, TWV 43:G4

    Ensemble: Musica Alta Ripa.
    • MDG.

  • Susie Orbach's Choice No.1

    • Edward Elgar

      Cello Concerto in E minor: II: Lento - Allegro molto

      Performer: Natalie Clein. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
      • EMI.

  • Susie Orbach's Choice No.2

    • Richard Wagner

      Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod

      Singer: Anja Kampe. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
      • GLYNDEBOURNE.

  • Susie Orbach's Choice No.3

    • Lewis Allan

      Strange Fruit

      Performer: Sonny White. Singer: Billie Holiday.
      • AFFINITY.

  • Michael Tippett

    5 Spirituals from A Child of our Time (By and by)

    Choir: East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conductor: Daniel Bara.
    • Greater Love.
    • GOTHIC.
    • 12.

  • Michael Tippett

    5 Spirituals from A Child of our Time (By and by)

    Choir: East Carolina University Chamber Singers. Conductor: Daniel Bara.
    • Greater Love.
    • GOTHIC.
    • 13.

  • Music in Time: Modern

    • Alban Berg

      Hier ist Friede

      Performer: Sepp Grotenhuis. Performer: Robert Allen Zimmerman. Ensemble: Schoenberg String Quartet.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Galuppi

    Sonata No.5 in C major

    Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano).

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Legend in G minor, Op. 59 No.3

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Supraphon.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    5 Pieces for Piano, Op 23, 5. Waltz

    Performer: Glenn Gould.
    • Works by Schoenberg.
    • CBS.
    • 8.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    String Quartet No.2 in F sharp minor, Op.10

    Singer: Margaret Price. Ensemble: LaSalle Quartet.
    • DG.

  • Anton Webern

    4 Lieder for voice and orchestra, Op.13

    Singer: Fran莽oise Pollet. Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.16 in B flat

    Orchestra: Stuttgarter Kammerorchester. Conductor: Dennis Russell Davies.
    • SONY.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Person

The Mystery Person was Georg Frederic Telemann.

Broadcast

  • Wed 4 Jan 2017 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.