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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Dvorak: Slavonic Dances; Artist of the Week: Pierre Hantai; Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: Symphony No 4 in E minor.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: a disc of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances played by the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra conducted by Rafael Kubelik: DG 419 056 2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, harpsichordist and conductor Pierre Hantai.

10.30am
In the week of the Cheltenham Race Festival, the Essential Classics guest is the managing director of Cheltenham Racecourse, Edward Gillespie, who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor Op.98
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SBK 46330.

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Thu 15 Mar 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Liebesfreud  

    Performers: Ruggiero Ricci (violin), Brooks Smith (piano)   

    • DG 477 9942.

  • Uuno Klami

    Suomenlinna Overture Op. 30  

    Performers: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

    • ONDINE ODE 1112-2  .

  • Jean Sibelius

    10 Piano pieces Op. 58: No. 5 (In the evening) & No. 6 (Dialogue)

    Performers: Olli Mustonen  

    • ONDINE ODE 1014-2.

  • 9.20: Rob's CD of the Week

    • Antonín Dvořák

      Slavonic Dance in A flat major Op. 72 No. 8

      Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

      • DG 419 056 2.

  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Pierre Hantaï

    • Thomas Morley

      Galiarda

      Performers: Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord)

      • ALPHA ALPHA081.

  • Robert Schumann

    Manfred Overture   

    Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL 88697884.

  • 9.45: Artist of the Week - Pierre Hantaï

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Musical Offering: Canon 1 a 2 (cancrizans); Ricercar a 6

      Performers: Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord), Le Concert des Nations

      • ALIA VOX AV9817.

  • Carl Orff

    Closing part of Carmina Burana

    Performers: Lynne Dawson (soprano), San Francisco Symphony & Chorus conducted by Herbert Blomstedt

    • DECCA 4305092.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 26 in E flat K. 184  

    Performers: Mozart Akademie Amsterdam, Jaap ter Linden (conductor)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94295.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Nocturne no 20 in C minor

    Arranger: Milstein Performers: Nathan Milstein (violin), Leon Pommers (piano)

    • EMI 7648302.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonatas in F minor Kk185 & B flat major Kk249

    Performers: Pierre Hantai (harpsichord)

    • MIRARE MIR9918.

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Santus & Pie Jesu from Requiem

    Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Timothy Hugh (cello), John Butt (organ), Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Philip Ledger (conductor)

    • HMV HMV5721212.

  • Aaron Copland

    Fanfare for the Common Man

    Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • CBS MLK39443.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri for strings, piano and organ Op. 70

    Performers: Â鶹Éç Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • TELDEC 4509923742.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Johannes Brahms

      Symphony No. 4 in E minor Op. 98

      Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SBK 46330.

  • Vittorio Rieti

    Allegro danzante

    Performers: Jonathan Plowright (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67903.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    End of Part 1 of Elijah

    Performers: Leipzig Radio Choir and Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4201062.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Mar 2012 09:00
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