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We get some answers from the new Radio 3 Breakfast show presenters We asked Rob, Sara and Martin to think up some questions to ask one another. Here are their answers. We'll ask some of these questions again from time to time and update this page with any new responses. Please use the form on our homepage if you'd like to add a different question, or if you have an answer of your own that you'd like to share.  Rob Cowan Musical philosophy in under 10 words Play it as if your life depends on it In my CD Player/iPod this week Nicholas Angelich plays Brahms on Virgin Classics. Perfect breakfast piece Faure: Masques et Bergamasques conducted by Ernest Ansermet. Best ever concert experience Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli live at the Royal Festival Hall in the early ’70s. Please let this never happen to me again: Calling Delius’ “Song of the High Hills” - “Song of the High Heels” (with Martin!) Rob's biog page  Sara Mohr-Pietsch Musical philosophy in under 10 words Don’t ever turn down the opportunity to hear something new! In my CD Player/iPod this week: Rameau: Nouvelles Suites de Clavecin played on a Steinway by Alexandre Tharaud Verdi: La Traviata – the Solti recording with Angela Gheorghiu as Violetta Duke Ellington with Charlie Mingus and Max Roach: the Money Jungle album Perfect breakfast piece It’s probably a toss-up between a Bach cantata, a Schubert Impromptu and a Brahms violin sonata. Best ever concert experience The Berlin Philharmonic and Sir Simon Rattle playing Mahler’s 4th Symphony at last year’s Edinburgh International Festival. The playing was phenomenal, with a barely contained energy that made for an exhilarating performance. I was in tears by the end, and left walking on air! Please never let this happen to me on air again During last year’s Proms, I accidentally called Juan Diego Florez a “lyric terror” – it’s a nice image, but totally unwarranted in his case, and really quite embarrassing! Sara's biog page  Martin Handley Musical philosophy in under 10 words Anything that burrows under my skin and won't let go In my CD Player/iPod this week Well, I'm on tour in the USA with lots of long days on the bus so I'm listening to: Malcolm Arnold: Symphonies 7-9 and the oboe concerto; BBC Philharmonic and Rumon Gamba with Jennifer Galloway, oboe. The seventh in particular is an astonishing masterpiece. Barbara Luna: India Morena; A passionate Argentinian singer, in whose warmth and humanity I can cheerfully drown. Missa Mexicana: Andrew Lawrence-King and the Harp Consort in the irresistible music of the Mexican Baroque. Perfect breakfast piece Depends entirely on my mood, but Mozart Wind Divertimenti seem to fit most of them! Best ever concert experience Not strictly a concert, but the 100th performance of Wagner's Tristan at Bayreuth. Having waited all day to try and get a return that I could afford as a student, I succeeded with ten minutes to go. It was the last performance of the Wieland Wagner production with Birgit Nilsson, Wolfgang Windgassen, and Karl Bohm in the pit. Mesmerising, electrifying, definitive, deeply moving and totally cathartic. Please never let this happen to me on air again The Meditation from Thais failing to start on the CD player during Morning on 3. Having eventually coaxed the machine into life, I gave vent to a four-letter expletive, only to look down and see that my microphone fader was still open....aaargh! Martin's biog page |
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