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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Includes CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor; Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts Enescu, Prokofiev; Building a Library: Walton: Belshazzar's Feast.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Leontyne Price, Katia Ricciarelli and others

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in music by Enescu (Romanian Rhapsody no. 2) and Prokofiev (Romeo and Juliet).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the author Helen Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for her third novel A Spell of Winter). Today she introduces the first piece of classical music that she remembers hearing and talks about the relationship between works by Prokofiev.

11am
Walton
Belshazzar's Feast
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 21 Nov 2011 09:00
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Music Played

  • Hubert Parry

    Gigue (Lady Radnor's Suite), London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

    • LYRITA SRCD.220.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417

    Performers: Alessio Allegrini (horn), Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 477 8083.

  • 9.17am: Rob's CD of the Week

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      "Di' tu se fedele il flutto m'aspetta" (Un ballo in maschera)

      Performers: Placido Domingo (tenor), Wendy Ethorne (soprano), Brian Etheridge & Frank Whiteley (basses), John Alldis Choir, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)

      • SONY MASTERS 8869784017-2.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Swan of Tuonela (Lemminkainen Legends, Op.22)

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)

    • EMI 569134-2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Trio in G Major (1888): opening movement

    Performers: Schubert Trio of Vienna

    • NIMBUS NI6159.

  • 9.42am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Aram Khachaturian

      Sabre Dance (Gayaneh)

      Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • DG LPM 18673.

  • 9.45am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Enescu

      Romanian Rhapsody in D major, Op.11 No.2

      Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN9537.

  • 10.21am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Death of Tybalt (Romeo and Juliet, Suite No.1, Op.64a)

      Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Legends Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔL 4184-2.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltzes in A flat, Op.64 No.3 & Op.69 No.1

    Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano)

    • RCA 09026 63047-2.

  • 10.30am: Helen Dunmore's Choices

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Peter and the Wolf, A Musical Tale for Children, Op.67: the conclusion

      Performers: Narrator: Richard Baker, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)

      • EMI 382230-2.

  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus

    Performers: The Tallis Scholars, Peter Philips (director)

    • GIMELL CDGIM345.

  • 11.00am: The Building a Library Choice

    • William Walton

      Belshazzar's Feast

      Performers: Bryn Terfel (baritone), Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Singers, Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Andrew Davis (conductor)

      • WARNER APEX 0927 44394-2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto, BWV1056

    Performers: Nick van Bloss (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, David Parry (conductor)

    • NIMBUS NI6141.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Legends Nos. 3 and 4

    Performers: Czech Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras

    • WARNER APEX 0927 44394-2.

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  • Mon 21 Nov 2011 09:00
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