Thursday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Saint-Saens: Bacchanale (Samson and Delilah); Sibelius: Violin Concerto (with Viktoria Mullova); Essential Choice: Grieg: Peer Gynt (excerpts).
Rob Cowan shares great music and performances, with the Essential CD of the Week, Artist of the Week, and guest, Rick Stein introducing his essential pieces of classical music.
9am
A selection of must-hear music including the Bacchanale of Saint-Saens' Samson and Delilah from the Essential CD of the Week: Sir Thomas Beecham French Music
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and the Artist of the Week violinist Viktoria Mullova performs Sibelius' Violin Concerto (Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa)
10.30am
As part of British Food Fortnight, the Essential Classics guest is restaurateur and chef Rick Stein. Today he introduces a piece of film music which has particularly affected him and music which makes him glad to be alive.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Grieg
Peer Gynt: a selection from the incidental music Wendy White (mezzo-soprano; Anitra) Urban Malmberg (baritone; Peer Gynt) Mari-Anne Haeggander (soprano; Solveig) San Francisco Symphony & Symphony Chorus Herbert Blomstedt (conductor) DECCA 425 448-2.
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Camille SaintβSaΓ«ns
Bacchanale Act III (Samson et Delila)
Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir Thomas Beecham (conductor)
- EMI 909932-2CD 3 Tk 11.
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anon - Improvisation on an anonymous Jota
Performers: Arianna Savall (harp [arpa doppia]), Pedro Estevan & Marc Clos (range of percussion)
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Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin
Grand Waltz (Le Pavillon d'Armide, Op.29)
Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Viktor Fedotov (conductor)
- OLYMPIA OCD 151 Tk 6.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Nocturne No.20 in C sharp minor, Op. posth.
Performers: Maria Joao Pires (piano)
- DG 447 096-2CD 2 Tk 10.
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JeanβPhilippe Rameau
Fanfarinette(Suite in A)
Arranger: Hekkerna. Performers: Les Cyclopes(Suite in D), Tambourin(Suite in D), Calefax Reed Quintet
- MD&G 619 1374-2Tks 6, 14, 17.
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Giuseppe Verdi
"Follie! Delirio vano Γ¨ questo!... Sempre libera" (La Traviata)
Performers: Angela Gheorghiu (soprano - Violetta), Frank Lopardo (tenor - Alfredo), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Georg Solti (conductor), DECCA 448 119-2 CD 1 Tk 9
- Recorded live at the Royal Opera House Covent Garden.
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Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Performers: Viktoria Mullova (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- PHILIPS 416 821-2Tks 4-6.
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MiklΓ³s RΓ³zsa - El Cid (Prelude, Palace Music, Battle of Calahorra, The Twins, Intermezzo
Performers: Symphony Orchestra Graunke of Munich, Miklos Rosza (conductor)
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Johann Strauss II - Die Fledermaus: Finale, Act I
Performers: Eisenstein: Hermann Prey, Falke: Bernd Weikl, Orlofsky: Iwan Rebroff, Adele: Lucia Popp, Alfred: RenΓ© Kollo, Roslinde: Julia Varady Ida: Evi List, Bavarian State Opera Orchestra and Chorus, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt, Op.23 incal music
Performers: Wendy White (mezzo-soprano; Anitra), Urban Malmberg (baritone; Peer Gynt), Mari-Anne Haeggander (soprano; Solveig), San Francisco Symphony & Symphony Chorus, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
- DECCA 425 448-2Tks 2, 4-5, 7-8, 10-15, 19.
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George Frideric Handel
Organ Concerto Op.7 No.3 in B flat, HWV308
Performers: Simon Preston (organ), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director)
- ARCHIV 469 358-2 CD 2 Tks 11-14.
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