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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducting Glazunov: Symphony No 5; Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Piano Concerto No 22 in E flat.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Katia Ricciarelli and others: RCA RED SEAL 88697840172.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in music by Glazunov (Symphony No. 5).

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 talks about a piece she thinks should be more widely known, as well as revealing her favourite piece by her favourite composer.

11.00
Rob's Essential Choice

Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 22, K.482 in E flat
Columbia Symphony Orchestra conductor George Szell with Robert Casadesus (piano).

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Wed 23 Nov 2011 09:00
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Cortège (Petite Suite)

    Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 306-2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.88 in G major

    Performers: New York Philhamonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SM2K 47563.

  • 9.15am: Rob's CD of the Week

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      "Giorno di pianto" (I Vespri Siciliani)

      Performers: Placido Domingo (tenor), New Philharmonia Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)

      • SONY MASTERS 8869784017-2.

  • 9.30am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy; Coda; Final Waltz & Apotheosis (The Nutcracker, Act II)

      Performers: Bolshoi Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • MELODIYA 74321 40067-2.

  • 9.52am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Symphony No.5 in B flat, Op.55

      Performers: USSR Ministry of Culture Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • OLYMPIA OCD 101.

  • 10.30am: Helen Dunmore's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      "Pa-pa-pa" Papageno & Papagena's Duet (The Magic Flute, Act II)

      Performers: Walter Berry (baritone), Ruth-Margret Putz (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • EMI CMS 769971-2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Cello Concerto No.1: second movement

    Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • Sony Classical MHK 63327.

  • Γ‰douard Lalo

    Parade du Roi (Namouna)

    Performers: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

    • DECCA 480 0049.

  • 11.00am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Mozart

      Piano Concerto in E flat, K.482

      Performers: Robert Casadesus (piano), Columbia Symphony Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88697 80837-2.

  • 11.32am

    • Antonio Salieri

      Overture and Entr'acte to Act I (Die Hussiten vor Naumburg)

      Performers: Mannheim Mozart Orchestra, Thomas Fey (conductor)

      • HANNSLER CD 98.554.

  • 11.38am

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Caprice bohemian, Op.12

      Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

      • EMI 967 901-2.

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  • Wed 23 Nov 2011 09:00
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