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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: Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Gerald Scarfe

Monday - Rob Cowan with Gerald Scarfe

28/02/2017

Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Gerald Scarfe

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Artist of the Week: keyboard player George Malcolm, featured in Poulenc's Organ Concerto.

With Rob Cowan. Musical challenge; Music in Time: Giaches de Wert: Vox in Rama; Artist of the Week: keyboard player George Malcolm, featured playing Poulenc's Organ Concerto.

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: listen to the clues and identify a musical mystery person. 

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the cartoonist and illustrator Gerald Scarfe. Gerald began working for Punch magazine and Private Eye, and went on to become one of the UK's most distinguished cartoonists, enjoying long associations with The Sunday Times and The New Yorker. He's also designed sets for productions at both English National Opera and English National Ballet, as well as animation sequences for Walt Disney's Hercules. In the course of a career spanning more than 50 years, Gerald has met and drawn luminaries including Igor Stravinsky, Aaron Copland and former US President Lyndon B. Johnson, so he has a few stories up his sleeve. As well as discussing his life, Gerald will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

10.30am 
Music in Time: Renaissance 
Today Rob explores an unsung composer of Renaissance polyphony, Giaches de Wert, who's associated with the final generation of the Franco-Flemish School. Rob's focusing on de Wert's Italian influences and the expressive use of harmony in his motet, Vox in Rama. 

Double Take 
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of one of Reynaldo Hahn's best-loved songs, A Chloris, featuring soprano Véronique Gens and mezzo-soprano Susan Graham. 

11am 
Artist of the Week: George Malcolm
This week Rob celebrates 100 years since the birth of English keyboard player and conductor George Malcolm. Malcolm was one of the most revered harpsichordists of his generation, and each day this week Rob explores his illustrious career with recordings that demonstrate his talents not only as a harpsichordist, but also as an organist, fortepianist and conductor. The recordings reflect Malcolm's fervent championing of baroque keyboard masters such as Domenico Scarlatti and JS Bach, in addition to his association with Benjamin Britten, plus a rare instance of him duetting with András Schiff in a sonata by Mozart. 

Poulenc 
Concerto in G minor for organ, strings and percussion 
George Malcolm (organ) 
Academy of St Martin in the Fields 
Iona Brown (conductor).

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