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Essential Classics

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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Suzy Klein and Ian Skelly

Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

Monday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

15/06/2016

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Lee Child

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With Rob Cowan. Including Debussy's Pagodes and Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2, Op 35.

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Rondos; Music in Time: Debussy: Pagodes; Artist of the Week: pianist Vladimir Horowitz, featured performing Chopin's Piano Sonata No 2, Op 35.

9am
My favourite... rondos. Rob shares his favourite rondos, a musical form which is characterised by a recurring theme, with examples ranging from Beethoven's madcap Rage Over A Lost Penny and Saint-Saëns's show-stopping Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso to the more reflective Rondo in A minor, K.511 by Mozart and evergreen examples by Schubert and Dvorak. The line-up features performances by Mitsuko Uchida, Paul Tortelier, Gidon Kremer, Valentina Lisitsa and Jascha Heifetz.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music have been altered. Can you identify them?

10am
Rob's guest is the thriller writer Lee Child. Best known as the creator of the ex-military drifter, Jack Reacher, Lee Child is one of the world's leading thriller writers. His books consistently make number one in the hardback and paperback bestseller lists on both sides of the Atlantic and are translated into forty languages. He recently won the CWA's Diamond Dagger for a writer of an outstanding body of crime fiction. Lee will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Hildegard of Bingen, Delibes and Beethoven, every day at 10am. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic 
Rob features a piece from the BBC4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. He investigates how the young Claude Debussy heard the Balinese gamelan at the 1889 Paris exhibition, and was inspired to write his piano piece Pagodes. 

11am
Rob's artist of the week is Vladimir Horowitz, a pianist who could make a piano sound like an orchestra. Rob delves into the archives of this internationally renowned pianist, sharing recordings including his performance of Chopin's Funeral March Sonata, Fauré's crystalline and plangent Nocturne No.13, Liszt's foreboding portrayal of Oberman's Valley from his Années de Pélèrinage, and his virtuosic treatment of melodies from Bizet's Carmen.

Chopin
Piano Sonata No.2 in B flat minor, Op.35
Vladimir Horowitz (piano).

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