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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: Breaking Free: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

Breaking Free: Monday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

05/01/2017

Breaking Free: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Breaking Free: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Susie Orbach

With Rob Cowan. Includes the Prazak Quartet performing Schoenberg's String Quartet No 3.

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Modern; Breaking Free, featuring the Prazak Quartet in a performance of Schoenberg's String Quartet No 3.

9am
Rob sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the psychotherapist Susie Orbach who besides specializing in couple and relationship counselling is the author of the book 'Fat is a Feminist Issue' which has been continuously in print since 1978. Susie is also a broadcaster whose series 'In Therapy' on BBC Radio 4 has attracted large audiences and garnered critical acclaim. Susie is Co-founder of The Women's Therapy Centre in London and New York, she lectures widely across the world and continues to practice in London. She talks to Rob about how music fits into her life and chooses works by Handel, Bach, Bernstein and Philip Glass.

10.30am
Music in Time: Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
Rob places music in time, this week looking at five works from the Modern period which reflect the tumultous nature of musical thought and expression in the early years of the 20th century.

The Listening Service Extra: Alban Berg. 
8/12 We listen to Schoenberg's praise of his pupil, Alban Berg - and his surprise that this "soft-hearted young man" could write an opera of the ferocity and tragedy of Wozzeck. 

New feature
Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of the Garden Scene from Korngold's incidental music to Much Ado about Nothing. 

11am Breaking Free - the minds that changed music
As part of Radio 3's focus on the works of Schoenberg and the 2nd Viennese School, Rob explores the development of Arnold Schoenberg's musical style and language through his String Quartets, from the Dvorak-like early String Quartet in D of 1897 and the Second String Quartet with soprano, which sets the poetry of Stefan George, to the serial masterpieces: the Third Quartet, commissioned by Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, and the Fourth, written in 1936.

Schoenberg 
String Quartet No.3, Op.30 (1927)
Prazak Quartet.

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