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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clive Myrie

Discover definitive recordings of classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 - identify a piece of music played in reverse

10am
Rob's guest this week is the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News presenter and correspondent Clive Myrie. Clive is one of the regular evening presenters on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News Channel and News at Ten, and has worked in broadcast news and journalism throughout his career, almost exclusively for the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½. He started out in local news before becoming a foreign correspondent, being posted to Japan, America, France and Africa. Since becoming one of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½'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. Today, Malcolm Arnold's affectionate suite of Four Scottish Dances inspired by the traditional strathspey, reel, and fling, as well as Hebridean songs.

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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Concert Orchestra. This week he brings The John Wilson Orchestra to the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms, and earlier in the season he conducted his first Prom as Associate Guest Conductor of the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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.

Gershwin
An American in Paris: Main Titles; 'Love is Here to Stay'
Curtis Stigers (singer)
The John Wilson Orchestra
John Wilson (conductor)

Producer Richard Denison.

2 hours

Last on

Wed 9 Aug 2017 09:00

Music Played

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performer: Peter Maxwell Davies.
    • NAXOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in E minor, RV 273

    Performer: Fabio Biondi. Orchestra: Europa Galante.
    • GLOSSA.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Nabucco: Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the German Opera, Berlin. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.
    • DG.
  • György Ligeti

    Six Bagatelles for Wind Quintet

    Performer: Les Vents Français.
    • WARNER.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle in A minor, WoO.59, 'Für Elise'

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • The Art of Alfred Brendel: Beethoven.
    • Philips.
    • 13.
  • Niccolò Paganini

    Caprice in G minor, Op 1 No 10

    Performer: Tanja Becker-Bender.
    • Paganini: 24 Caprices, Op. 1: Tanja Becker-Bender.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.
  • Clive Myrie's First Choice

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      1812 Overture

      Orchestra: Minnesota Orchestra. Ensemble: University of Minnesota Brass Band. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
      • Tchaikovsky: 1812 Overture.
      • Mercury.
      • 1.
  • Clive Myrie's Second Choice

    • Giacomo Puccini

      O mio babbino caro (Gianni Schicchi)

      Singer: Renée Fleming. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
      • Decca.
  • Music on location: Scotland

    • Malcolm Arnold

      4 Scottish Dances (Nos. 3 & 4)

      Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Arnold.
      • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
      • Lyrita.
      • 15.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata No 30 in C major, K 403

    Performer: Isabelle van Keulen. Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • Philips.
  • Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson

    • George Gershwin

      An American in Paris: 'Love is Here to Stay'

      Singer: Curtis Stigers. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
      • EMI CLASSICS.

Musical Challenge:Recording Rewind

The piece of music we heard in reverse was Beethoven's Bagatelle in A minor, 'Für Elise'.

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  • Wed 9 Aug 2017 09:00

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