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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Includes Herbert Blomstedt leading Weber's Clarinet Concertino (with Sabine Mayer) and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Plus Essential Choice: Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy.

9am.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The Melos Ensemble, Music among Friends - EMI 918514-2.

9.30am.
A daily brainteaser and a recording of our Artist of the Week conductor Herbert Blomstedt in Weber (Clarinet Concertino with Sabine Meyer) and Wagner (Siegfried Idyll).

10.30am.
The Essential Classics guest is journalist and author Matthew D'Ancona, one of the judges on this year's Booker Prize panel. Today he introduces a piece he would like to play if he were a virtuoso and music by his favourite composer.

11am.
Rob's Essential Choice.

Schubert
String Quartet in G major, D.887
Gidon Kremer & Daniel Philips (violins), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
CBS MK 42134

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Tue 25 Oct 2011 09:00
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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sinfonia from the Cantata BWV156: Ich steh mit einem Fuß im Grabe!

    Performers: Les Violons du Roy, Bernard Labadie (conductor)

    • ATMA CLASSIQUE ACD2 2600.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony in F major "No.42", K.75

    Performers: Prague Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • TELARC CD-80300.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes, Op.34

    Performers: Melos Ensemble

    • EMI 9018514-2.

  • Charles Gounod

    Faust: Act II waltz

    Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 014-2.

  • Artist of the Week: Herbert Blomstedt

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Clarinet Concertino

      Performers: Sabine Meyer (clarinet), Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

      • EMI CDC 747351-2.

  • Richard Wagner - Siegfried Idyll

    Performers: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

  • Jean Sibelius

    Tapiola, Op.112

    Performers: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • DECCA 433 810-2.

  • Hungaricus 15 & C256 (Traditional pieces from the Uhrovska collection of 1730)

    Ensemble Caprice

    Performers: Matthias Maute (director)

    • ANALEKTA AN29912.

  • Matthew d'Ancona's Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Goldberg Variations: conclusion

      Performers: Glenn Gould (piano)

      • CBS MYK44868.

    • Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: Act II, the lovers meet

      Performers: Isolde: Margaret Price (soprano), Tristan: Rene Kollo (heldentenor), Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

    • Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde: the love duet from Act II

      Performers: Isolde: Margaret Price (soprano), Tristan: Rene Kollo (heldentenor), Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in G major, D.887

    Performers: Gidon Kremer (violin), Daniel Philips (violin), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

    • CBS MK42134.

  • Schubert orch. Webern

    Der Wegweiser (Winterreise, D.911)

    Performers: Thomas Quasthoff (bass-baritone), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 471 586-2.

Broadcast

  • Tue 25 Oct 2011 09:00
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