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Essential Classics: BBC Music Day - Rob Cowan with guest Imogen Heap

Monday - Rob Cowan with Imogen Heap

15/06/2017

BBC Music Day - Rob Cowan with guest Imogen Heap

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, BBC Music Day - Rob Cowan with guest Imogen Heap

With Artist of the Week: cellist Alisa Weilerstein, featured in music by Bright Sheng.

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Ives: Three Places in New England; Artist of the Week: cellist Alisa Weilerstein, featured in music by Bright Sheng.

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 work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am
Rob's guest on BBC Music Day is the musician Imogen Heap. Imogen is best known as a singer-songwriter, but she's composed music for film and theatre as well as working in sound engineering and production. She's written music for the West End show Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, and the film The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe. She is also at the forefront of musical technological innovation with her recent development of musical gloves and a new way of running the music industry called Mycelia. Imogen is named after the composer Imogen Holst and is passionate about a wide range of classical music. Throughout the week she'll be sharing some of her favourite classical music as well as discussing her life and work. 

10.30am
Music on Location: New England 
Rob explores music connected with New England by Ives. In a sequence of ground-breaking and intensely evocative tone poems Ives portrays Three Places in New England which reflect the region's Civil War history and natural landscape. 

Double Take
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Monteverdi's madrigal 'Chiome d'oro, bel tesoro', with ensembles led by composer Nadia Boulanger, whose recording from the mid-1930s was one of the first made of Monteverdi's music, and a leading 21st-century Renaissance music director, Christina Pluhar.

11am
Artist of the Week: Alisa Weilerstein
Rob's featured artist is the American cellist Alisa Weilerstein, who made her concert debut at the age of 13 and was soon recognised as an artist with exceptional powers of communication. Always a keen promoter of contemporary music, Weilerstein brings her radiant tone to the Seven Tunes Heard in China by the Chinese-American composer Bright Sheng, one of the pieces Rob's chosen to feature this week. She's joined by her parents, the violinist Donald Weilerstein and the pianist Vivian Hornik Weilerstein, for an emotionally potent performance of Schumann's G minor Piano Trio, and she can also be heard in a trio of concertos: Dvořák's evergreen Cello Concerto, the searingly dramatic 2nd Cello Concerto of Shostakovich, and the perennially affecting Elgar Concerto with Staatskapelle Berlin under Daniel Barenboim.

Bright Sheng 
Seven Tunes Heard in China 
Alisa Weilerstein (cello).

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