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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Ken Hom

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Glazunov's Saxophone Concerto; Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider, featured performing Brahms's Violin Sonata No 1.

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: can you name the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am
Rob's guest this week is the American chef, author and TV presenter Ken Hom. Whilst studying at Berkeley University, where he undertook studies in History of Art and French History, Ken began to give cooking lessons to fund his education. He soon realised that he wanted to make it his career and started teaching at a school for professional chefs in San Francisco. During his career Ken has published over 35 best-selling books on cookery, presented TV shows including Ken Hom's Chinese Cookery and Take on the Takeaway, and he is widely regarded as one of the greatest authorities on Asian cooking. In 2009 he was appointed an honorary OBE for 'services to culinary arts'. As well as discussing his life and work, Ken has chosen a selection of his favourite classical music.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Turning his attention to the Modern era, Rob looks at an early use of the saxophone with music by Glazunov. Although invented in the 1840s, the saxophone was still fairly new and unfamiliar when Glazunov wrote his Saxophone Concerto almost a century later.

11am
Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider
Rob's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Nikolaj Znaider. Feted in particular for the quality of his tone and his musical sensitivity, Znaider plays a Guarneri鈥痙el Gesu violin, built in 1741 and previously played by the legendary violinist鈥疐ritz Kreisler. Znaider's performances and recordings regularly earn critical acclaim across the globe; they include accounts of violin concertos by Elgar, Korngold, Prokofiev and Nielsen - all of which feature this week on Essential Classics. As well as maintaining a busy career as a violin virtuoso, Znaider is passionate about supporting the next generation of musical talent, and spent ten years as Founder and Artistic Director of the annual Nordic Music Academy summer school.

Brahms
Sonata No.1 in G major
Nikolaj Znaider (violin)
Yefim Bronfman (piano).

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Wed 29 Mar 2017 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Edna Bentz Woods

    Valse Phantastique

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • HYPERION.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Valse-fantasie in B minor, arr. for orchestra [orig. for piano]

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    O vos omnes

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HYPERION.

  • Pau Casals

    O vos omnes

    Ensemble: Sospiri. Conductor: Christopher Watson.
    • NAXOS.

  • Ambroise Thomas

    Mignon (Overture)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • Francesca Caccini

    Lasciatemi qui solo (Il primo libro delle musiche)

    Singer: Ruby Hughes. Performer: Mime Yamahiro-Brinkmann. Performer: Jonas Nordberg.
    • BIS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Les Troyens: Royal Hunt and Storm

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Mandolin Concerto in C major RV 425

    Performer: Duilio Galfetti. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.

  • Ken Hom's First Choice

    • Franz Schubert

      Piano Trio No.2 in E flat, D 929

      Performer: Rudolf Serkin. Performer: Adolf Busch. Performer: Hermann Busch.
      • EMI.

  • Ken Hom's Second Choice

    • Johannes Brahms

      Symphony No.3 in F major, Op.90: III. Allegretto

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
      • EMI.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Rondo in B flat major, WO8

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Clementi: Capriccios & Variations: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 29.

  • Music in Time: Modern

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Saxophone Concerto in E flat major Op.109

      Performer: Eugene Rousseau. Orchestra: Orchestre de Chambre. Conductor: Paul Kuentz.
      • DG.

  • Percy Grainger

    Lincolnshire Posy

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Artist of the Week: Nikolaj Znaider

    • Johannes Brahms

      Sonata No.1 in G major

      Performer: Nikolaj Znaider. Performer: Yefim Bronfman.
      • RCA.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    3 Slavonic rhapsodies Op.45: no.3 in A flat

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • IMG Artists.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in D minor, BWV 913

    Performer: Zuzana R暖啪i膷kov谩.
    • ERATO.

Musical Challenge: Heard on Screen

The piece we played was Vivaldi's Mandolin Concerto in C major RV 425, which features in the 1979 film, Kramer Vs. Kramer.

Broadcast

  • Wed 29 Mar 2017 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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