Friday - Rob Cowan with Al Murray
With Rob Cowan. Includes My Favourite Piano Duos; Music in Time: Ligeti's Melodien; Artists of the Week: The Academy of St Martin in the Fields, featured performing Bach and Handel.
9am
My favourite... piano duos. If three's a crowd, two's definitely company, and when it comes to piano duos - whether for two pianos or for four hands at a single instrument - that company can be richly rewarding. Rob's favourite piano duos include works by Mozart, Schubert, Bart贸k and Lutoslawski, as well as a magical vintage recording of a waltz by Arensky - definitely not to be missed!
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.
10am
Rob's guest this week is the stand-up comedian Al Murray. Best known for his alter-ego 'The Pub Landlord', Al has performed sell-out shows around the world, as well as making television appearances at The Royal Variety Performance and Live at the Apollo. Al has written books in his pub landlord persona, including The Pub Landlord's Book of British Common Sense and Let's Re-Great Britain. Outside of his pub landlord character, Al has presented Al Murray's Road to Berlin, about the last phase of the Second World War, for the Discovery Channel and Al Murray's German Adventure for 蜜芽传媒 Four. He is currently touring his new show 'Let's Go Backwards Together'. Al shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Bach, Handel and Orff, and talks about playing percussion, and reminisces about his performance on the triangle in Dvor谩k's New World Symphony, every day at 10am.
10.30am
Power of Three - The next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 蜜芽传媒 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.
Music in Time: Modern
Rob places Music in Time. Today the spotlight is on the Modern era and Melodien - Melodies - a short and ravishingly beautiful orchestral piece by the Hungarian composer Gy枚rgy Ligeti, who's probably best known for the three works director Stanley Kubrick hijacked for the soundtrack of his 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey - Atmosph猫res, Lux Aeterna and the Requiem. In those pieces Ligeti used a technique known as micropolyphony to create dense clusters of sound, whereas in Melodien, he rediscovered the clarity of individual lines.
11am
Rob's artists of the week are the late Sir Neville Marriner's orchestra, the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, a superb gathering of players who can turn their hands to virtually any repertoire and make a handsome job of it. We'll hear them in masterpieces from Bach to Bart贸k, dropping in on Mozart, Mendelssohn and Tchaikovsky along the way.
Bach Brandenburg Concerto No. 2 in F, BWV 1047
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner, conductor
Handel Concerto Grosso in D, Op. 6 No. 5, HWV 323
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Iona Brown, conductor.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Musica Ricercata: No.6 Allegro molto capriccioso
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- SONY.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont Overture
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.- DG.
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Robert Schumann
5 Hunting Songs, Op.137
Choir: Renner Ensemble Regensburg. Conductor: Werner Pfaff.- BRILLIANT.
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My favourite... piano duos
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B茅la Bart贸k
Mikrokosmos: 7 pieces for 2 pianos
Performer: Bego帽a Uriarte. Performer: Karl-Hermann Mrongovius.- WERGO.
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Carl Friedrich Abel
Trio Sonata in G major, Op.3 No.1
Ensemble: London Baroque.- BIS.
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Maurice Ravel
Miroirs for piano, no.3; Une Barque sur l'ocean
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- Ravel, The Piano Concertos: Aimard/Cleveland Orchestra/Boulez.
- DG.
- 7.
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Franz Schubert
6 German Dances orch. Webern
Orchestrator: Anton Webern. Ensemble: Lucerne Festival Strings. Conductor: Achim Fiedler.- OEHMS.
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AL MURRAY'S CHOICE NO.1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Signori, di fuori" (Marriage of Figaro, Act II)
Singer: Lorenzo Regazzo. Singer: Simon Keenlyside. Singer: Patrizia Ciofi. Singer: V茅ronique Gens. Singer: Antonio Abete. Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Rob's choice for Al Murray
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Carl Nielsen
Symphony No.4 'Inextinguishable': IV. Allegro
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.- RCA.
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Music in Time: Modern
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Melodien
Orchestra: Sch枚nberg Ensemble. Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw.- TELDEC.
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Clara Schumann
Romance in F sharp minor, Op 28 No 2
Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.- Liebestraum: Various Artists.
- Decca.
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Josef Bohuslav Foerster
Katharina, Petruchio and Eros, from Shakespeare Suite, Op 76
Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: V谩clav Smet谩膷ek. -
ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ACADEMY OF ST MARTIN IN THE FIELDS
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F major, BWV 1047
Performer: Henryk Szeryng. Performer: Michala Petri. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Andr茅 Bernard. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- J.S.Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos: Marriner.
- Philips.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6 No.5
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.- HANSSLER.
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Muriel Herbert
O MIstress Mine; Come Away, Death
Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Concerto for two pianos
Ensemble: Arthur Gold & Robert Fizdale.- SONY.
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