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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Songs and Dances of Bohemian Baroque; actress and writer Jane Asher; Rob's Essential Choice: Liszt: Dante Symphony.

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
Liszt
Dante Symphony S.109
Damenchor des Rundfunks Berlin & Berliner Philharmoniker
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
WARNER APEX 2564673012.

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Wed 8 Aug 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suite in A minor TWV55/A2 – Rejouissance

    Performers: Marion Verbruggen (recorder), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Monica Huggett (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMT7907093.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048

    Performers: Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 530302.

  • 9.15:

    • Johannes Brahms

      Klavierstucke Op. 118 – Nos. 2 and 3

      Performers: Helene Grimaud (piano)

      • DENON 79782.

  • 9.25: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Anon.

      The Oldest Collections of Czech Folk Songs and Dances: Dances from Caslavsko: Nos. 23 and

      Performers: Musica Bohemica, Jaroslav Krcek (conductor)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 40982.

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Simon Preston

    • Walton (arr. Herbert Murrill)

      Crown Imperial

      Performers: Simon Preston (organ)

      • DECCA 4300912.

  • Bach (arr. Stokowski)

    Komm Susser Tod

    Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.557883.

  • 9.48: Artist of the Week - Simon Preston

    • Blow

      God spake sometime in visions

      Performers: Gabriel Crouch and Giles Underwood (trebles), Simon Gray and Christopher Tipping (altos), Leigh Nixon and John New (tenors), Simon Birchall and Roger Cleverdon (basses), Choir and Orchestra of Westminster Abbey, Simon Preston (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 4196132.

  • Franz Liszt

    La Valse

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4387452.

  • 10.17:

    • George Frideric Handel

      Organ Concerto in F, HWV 295 'The Cuckoo and the Nightingale'

      Performers: Simon Preston (organ), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 4473002.

  • 10.30: Jane Asher's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Don Giovanni: 'Ah, chi mi dice mai'

      Performers: Donna Elvira: Kiri te Kanawa (soprano), Don Giovanni: Ruggiero Raimondi (baritone), National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris, Lorin Maazel (conductor)

      • SONY 87758.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No.1 (Movement IV)

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

    • SONY 88697927172.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Humoresques Op.101 - Nos. 6, 7 & 8

    Performers: Radoslav Kvapil (piano)

    • SUPRAPHON 1111132.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Franz Liszt

      Dante Symphony S.109

      Performers: Damenchor des Rundfunks Berlin, Berliner Philharmoniker, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • WARNER APEX 2564673012.

  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Two Romanian Dances Op.8a - No.1

    Performers: Mihaela Ursuleasa (piano)

    • BERLIN CLASSICS 0016642BC.

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  • Wed 8 Aug 2012 09:00
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