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Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Michael Morpurgo

Monday - Rob Cowan with Michael Morpurgo

30/08/2017

Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Michael Morpurgo

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Rob Cowan's guest is children's author Michael Morpurgo.

Discover definitive recordings of classical music with your trusted guide Rob Cowan. His guest is children's author Michael Morpurgo.

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 music and name the two composers associated with it. 

10am 
Rob's guest this week is the author Michael Morpurgo. Michael is one of the UK's best-loved children's authors, novels such as Private Peaceful, War Horse, and The Butterfly Lion are now classics. He's a former Children's Laureate and a four-time Children's Book Award winner; he received his fourth in June 2017 for An Eagle in the Snow. Many of his novels have been adapted into plays, films, operas and ballets - most famously War Horse - and the themes of war, the countryside and animals have become familiar in Michael's story-telling. As well as discussing his writing, Michael shares his passion for classical music, choosing a selection of his favourite works.

10.30 
Music on Location: Vienna 
This week Rob explores music connected with Vienna, today focusing on Beethoven's first piano sonata, which was published a few years after he moved there. 

11am 
Rob's Proms Artist of the Week is the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Founded in 1888, the orchestra takes its name from its concert hall, the Concertgebouw, which is regarded as one of the world's finest. Despite its near 130-year history, the orchestra has only had eight Chief Conductors: Willem Kes, Willem Mengelberg, Eduard van Beinum, Eugen Jochum, Bernard Haitink, Riccardo Chailly, Mariss Jansons, and Daniele Gatti who took over in 2016. Known today as a Royal institution, it wasn't until 1998 that Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands conferred the title upon the orchestra. Living up to this title, the orchestra is known for its 'velvet' strings, 'golden' brass sound, and the exceptional timbre of the woodwinds. This Friday (1st September) Daniele Gatti brings the orchestra to the BBC Proms to play music by Bruckner and Wolfgang Rihm. Throughout the week Rob will be featuring the orchestra in recordings made under a number of different conductors: Haydn with Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Richard Strauss with Mariss Jansons, Tchaikovsky with Riccardo Chailly, and Diepenbrock and Poulenc with Bernard Haitink. 

Diepenbrock 
Die Nacht 
Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano) 
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra 
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

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