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Essential Classics

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Essential Classics: Thursday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb

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29/06/2017

Thursday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Rob Cowan with Suzannah Lipscomb

Artist of the Week: violinist Reinhard Goebel, featured performing Biber's Battalia a 10.

With Rob Cowan. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Paris: Lili Boulanger; Artist of the Week: violinist Reinhard Goebel, featured performing Biber's Battalia a 10.

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 identify the two pieces, played simultaneously? 

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the historian and broadcaster, Suzannah Lipscomb. Suzannah's interest in history started at home growing up near the site of one of Henry VIII's former palaces, Nonsuch, and since then she's become a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at New College of the Humanities, London. She's written a number of books about Henry VIII and Tudor England, and has specialised in the study of women in this period. She's also a frequent broadcaster: most recently appearing on our screens in The Great Fire: In Real Time, she also co-wrote and co-presented Henry VIII and his Six Wives for Channel 5, and wrote and presented Hidden Killers for BBC Four. As well as discussing her work as an historian, Suzannah shares her passion for classical music, choosing a selection of her favourite works.

10.30am 
Music on Location: Paris 
Rob's focus today is on a Psalm by Lili Boulanger, in a recording conducted by Igor Markevitch. Both Boulanger and Markevitch made a big splash in Parisian musical circles in their time.

Double Take 
Rob explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two interpretations of Schubert's Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 No.4 by Mitsuko Uchida and Sergei Rachmaninov, a performance preserved on a piano roll made in 1928. 

11am 
Rob's Artist of the Week is the German conductor and violinist, Reinhard Goebel. In 1973 Goebel founded Musica Antiqua Köln, an instrumental ensemble initially made up of his fellow students at the Cologne Conservatory. Together they became one of the leading exponents of Baroque performance practice and have played a significant role in increasing the profile of Baroque composers such as Telemann, Heinichen, Biber and the wider Bach dynasty. Goebel usually led the group from the violin, but an unexpected focal dystonia in his left hand brought his solo career to an end and forced him to bow with the other arm. In 2000 he gave up the violin entirely and focused on conducting, but he is still Professor of Baroque Violin at the Mozarteum, Salzburg. This week Rob's chosen a selection of Goebel's recordings with Musica Antiqua Köln: their highly-acclaimed account of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No.3, a motet by Heinrich Bach (J.S. Bach's great-uncle), part of Telemann's Tafelmusik, Biber's programmatic Battalia and one of Heinichen's Dresden Concerti.

Biber 
Battalia a 10 
Musica Antiqua Köln 
Reinhard Goebel (violin/director) 

Canada 150 
Rob marks the 150th anniversary of Canada's birth as a country by sharing a favourite recording by a classic Canadian artist. 

Rachmaninov 
Cello Sonata in G minor, Op.19 
Zara Nelsova (cello) 
Artur Balsam (piano).

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