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Essential Classics

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Essential Classics: Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Janet Suzman

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26/04/2016

Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Janet Suzman

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With Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, in Wolf's Italian Songbook (selection).

With Rob Cowan. My Favourite Operatic Overtures; Music in Time: Haydn: String Quartet, Op 50 No 2; Artist of the Week: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Wolf: Italian Songbook (selection).

9am
My favourite... operatic overtures. Rob chooses some of his favourite operatic overtures from the Classical and Romantic periods, putting the spotlight on pieces including Chabrier's Gwendoline, Weber's Der Freischutz and Borodin's Prince Igor. 

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

10am 
Rob's guest is the actress and director Janet Suzman. Janet has appeared on stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company in roles ranging from Beatrice and Kate to Ophelia and Lavinia, as well as a critically acclaimed Cleopatra. She became known on the big screen for her performance as Tsarina Alexandra in the Academy Award winning film Nicholas and Alexandra. In her native South Africa Janet has directed Brecht, Chekhov and Shakespeare, and here in the UK has recently turned to directing opera. Janet will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Purcell, Brahms, and Donizetti, every day at 10am.

10:30am
Music in Time: Classical
Rob places Music in Time as he turns to the Classical period and Haydn's consolidation of the four-movement classical structure, with the conventional fast-slow-minuet-fast sequence, in his String Quartet Op. 50 No. 2. 

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the baritone, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. Celebrated as one of the finest lieder interpreters of all time, Fischer-Dieskau left a considerable recording legacy that has influenced generations of singers. Throughout the week Rob focuses specifically on the baritone's lieder skills, with song cycles by Beethoven, Brahms and Mahler, as well as selections of songs by Schubert and Wolf.

Wolf 
Italian Songbook (selection)
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano).

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