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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Songs and Dances of Bohemian Baroque; Artist of the Week: Simon Preston; Rob's Essential Choice: Faure: Piano Quartet No 2.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Songs and Dances of Bohemian Baroque played by Musica Bohemica conducted by Jaroslav Krcek: SUPRAPHON SU 40982

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, organist, conductor and composer, Simon Preston.

10.30am
During British Food Fortnight, This week Rob's guest is guest on Essential Classics this week, is the actress, writer and cake-maker Jane Asher. Since beginning her acting career at the age of 5, she has appeared in several feature films including the original film of 'Alfie', and has starred in many TV series including 'Brideshead Revisited', 'The Mistress', 'The Choir', 'Crossroads', 'Poirot' , 'Miss Marple' and 'The Old Guys'. Jane has also written three best-selling novels and published over a dozen lifestyle and cake decorating books. As a young mother she started making novelty cakes for her children, and opened her own cake-making shop, Jane Asher Party Cakes, in 1990. It is now one of the UKοΏ½??s foremost bespoke cake makers.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Faure
Piano Quartet No.2 in G minor Op.45
Eric Le Sage (piano)
Daishin Kashimoto (violin)
Lise Berthaud (viola)
Francois Salque (cello)
ALPHA 601.

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Tue 7 Aug 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Etude in D minor

    Performers: Roberto Prosseda (piano)

    • DECCA 4765277.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture in C major, Op. 101 "Trumpet Overture"

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 423104.

  • 9.12: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Anon.

      Three Dances from Hana: She cooked cakes in cold water & A Maid walked sadly; At a fair in

      Performers: Musica Bohemica, Jaroslav Krcek (conductor)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 40982.

  • Frederick Delius

    Brigg Fair: An English Rhapsody

    Performers: HallΓ© Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI 2643122.

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Simon Preston

    • Olivier Messiaen

      La Nativite du Seigneur: Desseins eternels

      Performers: Simon Preston (organ)

      • DECCA 4256162.

  • Ruggiero Giovannelli

    Jubilate Deo

    Performers: Choir of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 4155172.

  • 9.43:

    • Avison

      Concerto Grosso No. 6 in D 'after Scarlatti'

      Performers: Brandenburg Consort, Roy Goodman (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA66891/2.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor

    Performers: Shura Cherkassky

    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE 0014.

  • 10.06:

    • Herschel

      Symphony No. 17 in C

      Performers: London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHSA5005.

  • 10.17: Artist of the Week - Simon Preston

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Nulla in mundo pax sincera RV 630

      Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford, The Academy of Ancient Music, Simon Preston (conductor)

      • L’OISEAU LYRE 4431992.

  • 10.30: Jane Asher's Choices

    • Sullivan

      "Poor Wandering One" (Pirates of Penzance)

      Performers: Mabel: Jean Hindmarsh (soprano), D'Oyly Carte Choir and Orchestra, Isidore Godfrey (conductor)

      • DECCA SKL4039.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 4 - Finale: Allegro con fuoco

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 547002.

  • Bridge

    Canzonetta H.169

    Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 107296.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Gabriel FaurΓ©

      Piano Quartet No. 2 in G minor Op. 45

      Performers: Eric Le Sage (piano), Daishin Kashimoto (violin), Lise Berthaud (viola), Francois Salque (cello)

      • ALPHA 601.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail 'Martern Aller Arten'

    Performers: Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

    • DECCA 4804964.

  • Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No.1 Op.11 No.1

    Performers: Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)

    • BERLIN CLASSICS 0016642BC.

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  • Tue 7 Aug 2012 09:00
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