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Essential Classics

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Essential Classics: Friday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

21/04/2017

Friday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Friday - Rob Cowan with Wendy Cope

Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Liszt's A Faust Symphony.

With Rob Cowan. Includes Musical challenge; Music in Time: Cristobal de Morales; Artist of the Week: Giuseppe Sinopoli, featured conducting Liszt's A Faust Symphony.

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 our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them? 

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, Wendy will be discussing her work and life as a writer, and reading some of her music-inspired poetry. 

10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance 
Today Rob's in Renaissance Spain putting Cristóbal de Morales, Tomás Luis de Victoria's illustrious predecessor, in the context of his time.

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 1st Piano Concerto (with Martha Argerich as soloist) and the conclusion of Richard Strauss' hair-raising operatic masterpiece Salome. 

Liszt 
A Faust Symphony 
Vinson Cole (tenor) 
Chorus of the Dresden State Opera 
Staatskapelle Dresden 
Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor).

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