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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: violinist David Oistrakh; Rob's Essential Choice: Strauss: Don Quixote.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne QueffΓ©lec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

R Strauss: Don Quixote, Op 35
Antonio Janigro (cello)
Milton Preves (viola)
John Weicher (violin)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 617962.

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Mon 3 Sep 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Julius Fucik

    Entry of the Gladiators

    Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann (conductor)

    • ORFEO C147861.

  • 9.03 [00’03”]: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in B minor, L.449 K.27

      Performers: Anne QueffΓ©lec (piano)

      • APEX 0927 44353 2.

  • Samuel Barber

    Adagio for strings

    Performers: New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK63088.

  • 9.18 [00’18”]:

    • Francaix

      Wind Quartet (1933)

      Performers: Bergen Woodwind Quintet

      • BIS BIS SACD 2008.

  • 9.30 [00’30”]:

    • Today’s Brainteaser

      Mystery Piece

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • 9.36 [00’36”]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Leclair

      Sonata in D major Op. 9 No. 3

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Naum Walter (piano)

      • BERLIN CLASSICS BC 2132 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture Op. 80

    Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

    • BSO CB 110.

  • Louis Couperin

    Passacaille (8th ordre, 2nd Bk Pieces de Clavecin 1716)

    Performers: Jean-Luc Ho (harpsichord)

    • ECL 1101.

  • 10.08 [01’08”]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Violin Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 19

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Berlin Symphony Orchestra, Kurt Sanderling (conductor)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2905257 54.

  • 10.30 [01’30”]: Miranda Krestovnikoff's Choices

    • Claude Debussy

      Syrinx

      Performers: Michael Cox (flute)

      • KINGDOM KCLCD 2013.

  • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

    Allegro vivace – 3rd movement of Piano Concerto No. 3

    Performers: Stephen Bishop Kovacevich (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4266602.

  • Maurice DuruflΓ©

    Quatre Motets sur des Thèmes Gregoriens, Op. 10

    Performers: Mary Seers (soprano), Corydon Singers, Matthew Best (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 66191.

  • 11.00 [02’00”]: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Richard Strauss

      Don Quixote Op. 35

      Performers: Antonio Janigro (cello), Milton Preves (viola), John Weicher (violin), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 617962.

  • 11.43 [02’43”]:

    • Various Artists

      Variations on a Russian folk song for string quartet (1898)

      Performers: Kuss Quartet

      • ONYX ONYX 4090.

  • Various Artists

    Variations on a Russian folk song for string quartet (1898)

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  • Mon 3 Sep 2012 09:00
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