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Monday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents a sequence of great music in classic recordings.

Christmas is upon us and everyone's thoughts turn to food. Rob Cowan's Essential Classics guest this week is the great Italian chef and restaurateur Antonio Carluccio, who grew up in Piedmont and began his career as a wine merchant in Germany and the UK, where he has lived since 1975. Having managed, and then owned, Terence Conran's Neal Street Restaurant in Covent Garden, he opened his own eponymous Italian food shop in 1991, and Carluccio's quickly expanded into a chain of highly-regarded restaurants and cafes with integrated food shops. Antonio Carluccio has written 13 books on authentic Italian cuisine, and has appeared on several Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ TV series. As well as food, music is one of his greatest passions, as Rob intends to discover over the course of the week. Rob is joined by Antonio Carluccio at 10.30am every day.

Also in the programme this week...

From 9am, there[s a selection of must-hear music including the Essential CD of the Week.

From 9.30am, performances by our Artist of the Week - this week, the conductor Sir Colin Davis, who made his first gramophone recordings in the late 1950s and today is producing a growing catalogue of live performances with the London Symphony Orchestra. We'll hear him in Sibelius, Mozart, Bizet amongst others.

And at 11am, we've major works of the classical music repertoire in outstanding performances. This week Rob focuses on piano trios - with performances of Beethoven's Piano Trio in E flat, Op 70 No 2 from Stern-Istomin-Rose Trio, Smetana from the Guarneris, Dvorak from the Suk Trio and Mendelssohn from the Beaux Arts.

Presenter: Rob Cowan
Producer: Chris Marshall.

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Mon 19 Dec 2011 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ibert

    Little White Donkey

    Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Brooks Smith (piano)

    • RCA 09026 61776-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Oboe Concerto in B flat, HWV301 (arr Mackerras and Rothwell)

    Performers: Evelyn Rothwell (oboe), Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • DUTTON CDSJB 1009.

  • 9.10: Essential CD of the Week

    • Liadov

      Kikimora

      Performers: USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

      • MELODIYA MEL CD 1001873.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Flute Sonata

    Performers: Juliette Hurel (flute), Helene Couvert (piano)

    • ZIG-ZAG TERRITOIRES ZZT 110401.

  • 9.40: Artist of the Week - Colin Davis

    • Hector Berlioz

      Overture: Le corsaire, Op 21

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 416 430-2 T5.

  • 9.48: Artist of the Week - Colin Davis

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No 99 in E flat

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Amsterdam, Colin Davis (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 432 286-2.

  • 10.30: Antonio Carluccio's Choices including at 10.35

    • Bedrich Smetana

      Die Moldau

      Performers: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)

      • DG 463 650-2.

  • 11am: The Building a Library Choice

    • Robert Schumann

      Piano Trio No 1 in D minor, Op 63

Broadcast

  • Mon 19 Dec 2011 09:00
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