大象传媒

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: two pieces of music are played together - can you identify them?

10am
Rob's guest in the week of 大象传媒 Music Day is the musician Imogen Heap. Imogen is best known as a singer-songwriter, but she's composed music for film and theatre as well as working in sound engineering and production. She's written music for the West End show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. She is also at the forefront of musical technological innovation with her recent development of musical gloves and a new way of running the music industry called Mycelia. Imogen is named after the composer Imogen Holst and is passionate about a wide range of classical music. Throughout the week she'll be sharing some of her favourite classical music as well as discussing her life and work.

10.30am
Music on Location: Tribschen, Switzerland
Rob explores music connected with Tribschen, a district of Lucerne in Switzerland. For a time the composer Richard Wagner lived in Tribschen, which overlooks the stunning Lake Lucerne, and it's where he composed Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for his wife Cosima.

Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Brahms's Intermezzo in E flat minor, Op.118 No.6, by Walter Gieseking and Arcadi Volodos.

11am
Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein
Rob's featured artist is the American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who made her concert debut at the age of 13 and was soon recognised as an artist with exceptional powers of communication. Always a keen promoter of contemporary music, Weilerstein brings her radiant tone to the Seven Tunes Heard in China by the Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng, one of the pieces Rob's chosen to feature this week. She's joined by her parents, the violinist Donald Weilerstein and the pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, for an emotionally potent performance of Schumann's G minor Piano Trio, and she can also be heard in a trio of concertos: Dvo艡谩k's evergreen Cello Concerto, the searingly dramatic 2nd Cello Concerto of Shostakovich, and the perennially affecting Elgar Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim.

R. Schumann
Piano Trio No.3 in G minor, Op.110
Weilerstein Trio.