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Essential Classics

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Essential Classics: Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Ian McMillan

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Ian McMillan

16/02/2016

Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Ian McMillan

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Ian McMillan

Artist of the Week: Daniel Harding conducting Mahler: Symphony No 6 (excerpts).

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Old-School Cellists; Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1; Artist of the Week: Daniel Harding, conducting Mahler: Symphony No 6 (excerpts).

9am
My favourite... old-world cellists. Rob delves into the archives of great cellists from the past, including recordings by Maurice Gendron, Daniil Shafran, Gregor Piatigorsky, Emanuel Feuermann and Paul Tortelier, in repertoire by Fauré, Beethoven and Haydn.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the poet, playwright, and broadcaster Ian McMillan. Well known for presenting Radio 3's The Verb, and for his strong Barnsley accent, Ian is a popular performance poet who tours the country with his poetry shows. The most recent of his many books, Neither Nowt nor Summat: In Search of the Meaning of Yorkshire, is an exploration of his beloved home county. Ian will be talking about his life and poetry, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, every day at 10am. 

10:30am
Rob places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Romantic period as Rob explores the rise in the virtuosity of works for piano with Mendelssohn's Piano Trio No. 1 in D minor.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Daniel Harding. Harding was the protégée of Simon Rattle in his youth and first conducted the Berlin Philharmonic when he was just 21 years old. He went on to have great success, both at home and abroad, and especially in Germany, developing a special enthusiasm for Romantic and 20th-century repertoire. Throughout the week Rob explores Harding's interpretations of works including Beethoven's Third Piano Concerto, Mahler's Sixth Symphony and Scenes from Goethe's Faust by Schumann.

Mahler 
Symphony No. 6: Andante moderato; Scherzo 
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra 
Daniel Harding (conductor).

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