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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Clive Myrie

Discover definitive recordings of classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is 大象传媒 News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie.

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

9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery person.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the 大象传媒 News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the 大象传媒 News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the 大象传媒. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the 大象传媒's main anchors in London, he has continued to make special reports about subjects ranging from Barack Obama to wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan. As well as discussing his life and work, Clive shares some of his favourite classical music throughout the week, including pieces he played as a teenager in his local youth orchestra by Schubert and Mussorgsky.

10.30
Music on Location: Scotland
This week Rob explores music connected with Scotland, focusing today on Bizet's opera, The Fair Maid of Perth, based on the novel by Sir Walter Scott.

Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the British conductor John Wilson. Wilson is celebrated for his on-stage charisma and has been applauded repeatedly for the rich and colourful sounds that he draws from orchestras in repertoire ranging from the core classical through to the twentieth century. Wilson has conducted many of the leading British orchestras including the London Symphony Orchestra and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, and has made a number of recordings with the 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the 大象传媒 Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Rob has chosen to feature Wilson's recordings of music by Edward German, Arnold Bax, Copland and Gershwin, as well as Eric Coates's take on a song by Richard Rodgers.

Edward German
The Willow Song
大象传媒 Concert Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)

Producer Richard Denison.

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Thu 10 Aug 2017 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.

  • Robert Schumann

    Theme and Variations in E flat major, 'Ghost Variations'

    Performer: Piotr Anderszewski.
    • WARNER.

  • John Philip Sousa

    Sandalphon

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Tan Dun

    Eight Memories in Watercolour: No.6 Ancient Burial

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • DG.

  • Richard Strauss

    Capriccio: Prelude

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Eric Whitacre

    Sleep

    Choir: Eric Whitacre Singers. Choir: Laudibus. Conductor: Eric Whitacre.
    • Eric Whitacre, Light & Gold.
    • Decca.
    • 16.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Nessun dorma (Turandot)

    Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Choir: The John Alldis Choir. Choir: Wandsworth School Boys鈥� Choir. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.
    • Turandot Highlights.
    • Decca.
    • 11.

  • Frederic Curzon

    Le Boulevardier - characteristic intermezzo

    Performer: Julian Leaper. Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics - 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • CLIVE MYRIE'S FIRST CHOICE

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Cum dederit dilectis (Nisi Dominus, RV 608)

      Singer: Andreas Scholl. Ensemble: Australian Brandenburg Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Dyer.

  • CLIVE MYRIE'S SECOND CHOICE

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Trio for piano and strings (Op.70`1) in D major "Ghost", 2nd mvt; Largo assai e espressivo

      Ensemble: Gryphon Trio.
      • Beethoven: Piano trios op.70 nos.1&2, op.11: Gryphon Trio.
      • Analekta.
      • 2.

  • Amy Beach

    From Blackbird Hills Op.83

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • Amy Beach: Piano Music Volume 3.
    • GUILD.
    • 11.

  • MUSIC ON LOCATION: SCOTLAND

    • Georges Bizet

      The Fair Maid of Perth suite

      Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
      • DECCA.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: JOHN WILSON

    • Edward German

      The Willow Song

      Orchestra: 大象传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
      • DUTTON.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat major for strings, RV 166

    Conductor: Simon Standage. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90.
    • Vivaldi: String Concertos, Vol. 3 - Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • Chandos.
    • 16.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Person

The Mystery Person was Princess Turandot, the fictional Chinese princess of Puccini's opera, 'Turandot'.

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    大象传媒 Radio 3

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