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Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

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13/05/2015

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Mike Leigh

With Rob Cowan. Artist of the Week: George Szell, who conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 4.

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Brahms Late Piano Pieces; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: George Szell, who conducts Beethoven's Symphony No 4 in B flat.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Brahms late piano pieces'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for Brahms's Indian summer piano works, showcasing recordings by pianists including Gerhard Oppitz, Yves Nat, Sviatoslav Richter, Arthur Rubinstein and Clifford Curzon.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am 
Rob's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day, is the celebrated writer and award-winning director Mike Leigh. Well known for films including Abigail's Party, Topsy-Turvy and Mr. Turner, Mike will be talking about the style of his work, how he chooses music for his films and his operatic directorial debut with a new staging of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Pirates of Penzance.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor George Szell. Known for being a harsh taskmaster, Szell moulded the musicians of the Cleveland Orchestra into a world-class ensemble. Throughout the week Rob explores Szell's recordings of favourite works including Sibelius's En Saga, Josef Strauss's Delerien Waltz and Prokofiev's Lieutenant Kije and reflects on the balance of mind and feeling in Szell's interpretations of five great Fourth symphonies. 

Beethoven
Symphony No. 4 in B flat.

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