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Essential Classics: Monday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam

Monday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam

15/06/2015

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Rob Cowan with David Puttnam

Artists of the Week: the Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Smetana's String Quartet No 2.

With Rob Cowan. CD Review Building a Library: Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria; Artists of the Week: the Pavel Haas Quartet, featured in Smetana's String Quartet No 2.

9am
As part of Radio 3's Classical Voice season, Rob offers a selection of music that showcases the qualities of the baritone voice. The baritone is a particular favourite for Rob as it is the closest of the male voices to natural speech. He features performances by well-loved singers including Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, Gerard Souzay and Jose van Dam, as well as Muslim Magomayev and Stafford Dean - baritones who Rob thinks should be better known today. The music ranges from Mozart's Don Giovanni and Verdi's La Traviata to songs by Brahms and Ravel.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.

10am 
Rob's guest this week is David Puttnam. A renowned producer famed for films including Chariots of Fire, Bugsy Malone, The Mission and The Killing Fields, Lord Puttnam has worked in public policy since he retired from the film industry, and has a particular interest in improvements in education. He will be discussing his career and 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

Monteverdi 
Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria

11am
This week Rob features recordings by the award-winning Pavel Haas Quartet, one of the leading quartets of their generation. Rob explores works from the quartet's Czech musical heritage with music by Smetana, Dvorak and Janacek, as well as works by Pavel Haas himself, the Czech composer after whom the quartet was named, and who was murdered at Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944. 

Smetana
String Quartet No.2 in D minor
Pavel Haas Quartet.

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