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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: Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

Monday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

21/06/2016

Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Tom Conti

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Tom Contisearch

With Rob Cowan. Including music by Mahler and Beethoven.

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Tenor Arias; Music in Time: Mahler: Symphony No 6; Artist of the Week: Daniil Shafran, featured in Beethoven's Cello Sonata No 5, Op 102 No 2.

9am
My favourite... tenor arias. Throughout the week Rob shares some of his favourite tenor arias, with voices both familiar (Franco Corelli, Richard Tucker and the legendary Carlo Bergonzi) and unfamiliar (Bruno Prevedi and Flaviano Labo). The repertoire ranges from the touching simplicity of Pergolesi's 'Nina' to the searing melodrama of Leoncavallo's 'Vesti la giubba', via Verdi, Giordano and Ponchielli. 

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the Tony Award-winning and Oscar-nominated actor, writer and director Tom Conti. Famous internationally for his roles in films such as Shirley Valentine, Reuben, Reuben and The Dark Knight Rises, Tom was recently voted the most popular actor in the West End in the last 25 years. Tom talks about his career-defining acting roles and shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Donizetti, Handel and Verdi, every day at 10am. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time, featuring a final piece from BBC 4's 19th-Century Music season. Today the focus is on the Romantic era and Mahler's epic 6th Symphony, whose tormented dreamscapes reflect the heady atmosphere of Freud's Vienna.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is Daniil Shafran, the 'other' great Russian cellist, who Rob considers to have a more individual style than the better-known Rostropovich. Shafran is deliciously quick-witted in the Shostakovich Sonata, passionate in Brahms's 2nd, and profoundly responsive to the voices of Beethoven, Chopin and Rachmaninov. His tone, full and sensual, was quite unlike anyone else's. 

Beethoven
Cello Sonata in D, Op. 102 No. 2
Daniil Shafran, cello
Anton Ginsburg, piano.

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