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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: Monday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

17/04/2017

Monday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

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Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting music by Schubert and Webern.

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Bruch; Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Schubert's Symphony No 8 and Webern's Symphony, Op 21.

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: identify a piece of music played in reverse. 

10am
Rob's guest this week is the poet, Wendy Cope. After spending 15 years as a primary school teacher, Wendy released her first collection of poetry and it became a surprise bestseller. She's since published three more collections and her poetry has become renowned for being humorous and terse, even when tackling serious subjects such as death. As well as writing poetry for children, she has been commissioned to write poetry to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Endellion String Quartet, and the 400th anniversary of the death of Shakespeare. As well as sharing some of her favourite classical music by composers including J.S. Bach, Felix Mendelssohn and Pierre Boulez, Wendy will be discussing her work and life as a writer, and reading some of her music-inspired poetry. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic 
Today Rob's in the 20th century exploring a late flowering of Romanticism in music by Max Bruch written in the aftermath of World War One and the death of his wife.

11am
Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli 
Rob's featured artist is the Italian conductor Giuseppe Sinopoli. Sinopoli was not only an immensely talented and original conductor, but also a gifted composer, whose sudden death at the age of 54 was particularly tragic when you consider that many celebrated conductors continue to work well past retirement age. Rob's choices include highly distinctive performances of symphonies by Schubert, Schumann, Liszt and Webern, as well as Beethoven's First Piano Concerto (with Martha Argerich as soloist) and the conclusion of Richard Strauss's hair-raising operatic masterpiece Salome. 

Schubert 
Symphony No.8 in B minor, 'Unfinished' 
Philharmonia Orchestra 
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)

Webern 
Symphony, Op.21 
Staatskapelle Dresden 
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor).

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