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Essential Classics

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Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

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16/11/2016

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Clare Teal

Artist of the Week: soprano Victoria de los Angeles, featured performing Rossini.

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Schubert Chamber Works; Music in Time: Purcell's Te Deum; Artist of the Week: soprano Victoria de los Angeles, featured performing Rossini.

9am
My favourite...Schubert chamber works. Throughout the week Rob focuses on Schubert's smaller-scale chamber works, from sonatinas for violin and piano that Schubert wrote when he was a teenager, to music from his final years. These shorter pieces are often remarkable essays, the Notturno for Piano Trio as sublime as the great slow movement of the String Quintet in C and his urgent Quartettsatz, a tantalising hint of a great string quartet that might have been, but never was. 

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a track from the world of rock music.

10.00am 
Especially for the week of the London Jazz Festival, Rob's guest is the celebrated jazz singer and broadcaster Clare Teal. Three-times winner of British Jazz Singer of the Year, Clare performs regularly at the world-renowned Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club, and has appeared at Glastonbury and the BBC Proms. Her acclaimed albums include the chart topping Don't Talk, And So It Goes and Hey Ho. Clare's most recent album Twelve O'Clock Tales, recorded with the Hallé orchestra, was released earlier this year. She is also a familiar voice on radio, as the host of Big Band Special and more recently with her own weekly show presenting the best in big band, swing and jazz. Clare will be talking about her singing career and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Rob every day at 10am. 

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
Music in Time: Baroque
Rob places Music in Time, travelling back to the Baroque era. The setting is London, November 1694, and Henry Purcell has just composed a Te Deum, to celebrate St Cecilia's Day. Performed in St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, it was the first time an English Te Deum had been given an orchestral accompaniment, and Purcell's magnificent work, with its brilliant trumpet parts, came to be regularly performed on festive occasions.

11am
Rob's artist of the week is the Spanish soprano Victoria de los Angeles. De los Angeles was one of the best-loved singers of the post-war period, eloquent in opera and song, and a charming stage presence, with a sweet, immediately distinctive voice. Rob selects his highlights from her wide recorded repertoire. There's music from her native Spain by Falla and Granados, a song-cycle by Berlioz, and arias from operas by Rossini and Massenet, as well as an acclaimed recording of Puccini's La Bohème with Jussi Björling, in which de los Angeles recreates the role of Mimi, the part in which she made her operatic debut at the age of 18. 

Rossini 
"Una voce poco fa", from The Barber of Seville 
Victoria de los Angeles (soprano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Vittorio Gui (conductor).

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