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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. 9.00am Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood: Mozart: Mass in C minor (exct). Plus Elgar: Serenade for Strings. 11.00am Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 2.

with Rob Cowan, sharing great music and performances.

9am
A selection of must-hear music including the Essential CD of the Week: Violin Romances, Arthur Grumiaux.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood:
Mozart (Jesu Christe, Mass in C minor); Telemann (Concerto in E major for flute, oboe d'amore and viola d'amore). Also in this hour, Elgar's Serenade for Strings (John Barbirolli, conductor).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest this week is Marcus du Sautoy, the current Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science. Today he introduces music he finds particularly moving, and the first piece of classical music he bought.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Sibelius
Symphony No.2
Cleveland Orchestra
George Szell (conductor).

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Thu 15 Sep 2011 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Bourée (Music for the Royal Fireworks)

    Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DG 435 390 2 tk 2.

  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants

    Performers: ORTF National Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • DG 437372 2 CD 1 tks 9 – 13.

  • Essential CD of the Week

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Serenade Melancolique

      Performers: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), New Philharmonia Orchestra, Edo de Waart (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 442 8290 tk 3.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Ballade no 3 in A flat major op 47

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK 64399 tk 3.

  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade for strings

    Performers: Sinfonia of London, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI CDC 747537 2 tks 2 - 4.

  • Clara Schumann

    Toccatina, Mazurka, Polonaise from Soirees Musicales op 6

    Performers: Yoshiko Iwai (piano)

    • NAXOS 85533501 tks 8, 12, 13.

  • Artist of the Week

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Jesu Christe (Mass in C minor)

      Performers: Winchester Cathedral Choir, Winchester College Quiristers, The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (director)

      • L’OISEAU LYRE 425 528 2 tk 8.

  • Ethel Smyth

    Overture: The Wreckers

    Performers: Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Gibson (conductor)

    • EMI CDCFP 4635 tk 1.

  • Artist of the Week

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Concerto for flute, oboe d'amore, viola in E major

      Performers: Stephen Preston (flute), Clare Shanks (oboe d’amore), Monica Huggett (viola d’amore), The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (director)

      • L’OISEAU LYRE 411 949 2 tks 15 - 18.

  • Béla Bartók

    Bluebeard's Castle (excerpt) From - "Fehér rózsád töve véres…." Ends with "Aldott á te kez

    Performers: Judit: Tatiana Troyanos (soprano), Bluebeard: Siegmund Nimsgern (bass-baritone), Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK 64110 tk 7.

  • Gustav Holst

    Saturn (Planets Suite)

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

    • DECCA 444 550 2 CD 1 tk 5.

  • My Essential Choice…

    • Jean Sibelius

      Symphony no 2

      Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (live rec)

      • Cleveland Orch 75 Th Anniversary.
      • DIMS 000904 DIDX 019076 CD 3 tks 4 - 7.

  • Johann Strauss II - Delerien

    Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Sep 2011 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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