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Essential Classics

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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Monday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

Monday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

01/06/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Rob Cowan with Will Gregory

With Rob Cowan. Including Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1 and Beethoven: Symphony No 2.

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Scherzos; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1; Artist of the Week: David Zinman, featured conducting Beethoven's Symphony No 2.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Scherzos'. The word 'scherzo' comes from the Italian 'to joke' or 'I joke'. Rob showcases a range of these playful pieces by composers including Chopin, Prokofiev, Schubert and Stravinsky. 

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: a piece of music is played backwards. Do you know what it is?

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the musician Will Gregory. Will is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer and is best known as part of the electronic music duo Goldfrapp. He will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Rob every day at 10am. 

10.30am
Rob features the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD review

Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No.1 in D minor

11am
The conductor David ZInman is Rob's artist of the week. Rob will be traversing a wide selection of recordings by Zinman, a conductor who has always shown a flair for versatility and an ear for a varied range of repertoire. Throughout the week Rob will be dipping into Zinman's critically acclaimed set of Beethoven symphonies with the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and exploring his interpretations of Hummel via Richard Strauss and Arthur Honegger. 

Including:

Beethoven 
Symphony No.2 in D Op.36
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor).

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