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Essential Classics

Music: Classical

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music

Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Monday - Rob Cowan with Noma Dumezweni

Thursday - Rob Cowan with Noma Dumezweni

17/10/2016

Monday - Rob Cowan with Noma Dumezweni

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Monday - Rob Cowan with Noma Dumezweni

Including Artist of the Week: Emil Gilels, featured playing Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Baroque Concertos; Music in Time: William Grant Still's Symphony No 1; Artist of the Week: Emil Gilels. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 1.

9am
My favourite...Baroque concertos. Rob's selection includes a lively bassoon concerto by Vivaldi, a festive trumpet concerto by Torelli, and Bach's darkly intense Triple Concerto for flute, violin and harpsichord. He also chooses a pair of Concerti Grossi: the final (and Rob believes the loveliest) of Handel's Op. 6, and one of the Corelli set that was Handel's inspiration.

9.30am 
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the actress Noma Dumezweni. Noma is currently starring as Hermione in the West End play Harry Potter and The Cursed Child, the much-anticipated stage sequel to J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series. She has recently played the title role in Linda at the Royal Court Theatre, receiving outstanding reviews. Her other theatre credits include Feast and Belong also for the Royal Court, A Human Being Died That Night at the Hampstead Theatre, The Fugard and The Market theatres in South Africa and Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York and Macbeth, Breakfast With Mugabe, The Winter's Tale and Romeo and Juliet for the Royal Shakespeare Company. She won the Olivier Award for Best Performance in a Supporting Role for A Raisin In The Sun for the Young Vic at the Lyric Hammersmith. Her film credits include The Incident, Dirty Pretty Things and Macbeth, and she has made appearances in television series including Casualty, Capital and Dr Who. Noma will be talking about her career and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music throughout the week. 

10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Followed by 
This week, Rob places Music in Time, and explores the music of six pioneering African and African-American composers. William Grant Still (1895-1978) has been described as "the Dean of Afro-American composers", and was the first to have a symphony performed by a major American orchestra. His Afro-American Symphony of 1930 incorporates blues, jazz, and a hint of folksong and spirituals.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the pianist Emil Gilels. Gilels was born in Odessa on 19th October 1916, and Rob celebrates the centenary of this great musician with dazzling recordings demonstrating the breadth of his repertoire. Gilels married power to finesse like no other pianist. His Mozart was elegant and incisive, his Beethoven rigorously argued, his Schubert graced by charm and clarity, and his Chopin, ever attentive to the music's emotional and intellectual aspects, making him in Rob's eyes the complete musician.

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 1
Emil Gilels (piano)
Paris Conservatoire Orchestra
Andre Vandernoot (conductor).

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