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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 Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Friday - Rob Cowan with Tony Robinson

Monday - Rob Cowan with Tony Robinson

16/12/2016

Friday - Rob Cowan with Tony Robinson

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday - Rob Cowan with Tony Robinson

Artist of the Week: Charles Munch, featured conducting Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2.

With Rob Cowan. Including My Favourite Bach for Advent; Music in Time: Schumann: Papillons; Artist of the Week: Charles Munch, featured conducting Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No 2.

9am
My favourite... Bach for Advent. Rob explores the range of music that Bach wrote for performance during the season of Advent. From cantatas to chorale preludes, Rob chooses a selection of his favourite choruses, arias and organ works.

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

10am
Rob's guest is the actor, comedian, writer and broadcaster, Sir Tony Robinson. Well known for his cunning plans as Baldrick in the hit series Blackadder and for writing and starring in Maid Marian and Her Merry Men, Sir Tony also presented Time Team for twenty years and has written a series of history books for children. Sir Tony shares some of his favourite pieces of classical music throughout the week, including Fauré's Dolly Suite, which he remembers as the theme tune to Listen with Mother, Bach's Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Handel's Messiah, which he sang as a schoolboy. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Rob places Music in Time, heading back to the Romantic period with the piano music of Robert Schumann. and his piano cycle Papillons, Op.2 - a set of ephemeral piano miniatures, which create a sense of an unfolding narrative.

11am 
Rob's artist of the week is the conductor Charles Munch. Born in Strasbourg when it was still annexed to the German Empire, Munch gained a unique insight into both the French and German repertoire by serving as concertmaster under Wilhelm Fürtwangler, and Bruno Walter, and from conducting French orchestras including the Lamoureux and Orchestre Symphonique de Paris. As a conductor, Munch brought flair, panache and imagination to a whole host of varied masterpieces including Berlioz's Romeo and Juliet and Stravinsky's Jeu de Cartes, as well as symphonies by Dvorak and Mendelssohn, all of which are featured during the week.

Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.16
Nicole Henriot-Schweitzer (piano)
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor).

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