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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: violinist David Oistrakh; Essential Choice: Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade.

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

Rimsky-Korsakov: Sheherazade
Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Druian (violin)
Antal Dorati (conductor)
MERCURY 462 953 2.

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Tue 4 Sep 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz No. 8 in A flat major, Op. 64 No. 3

    Performers: Vladimir Feltsman (piano)

    • NIMBUS NI6184.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture to 'Idomeneo'

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

    • TESTAMENT SBT 1273.

  • 9.08 [00’08”]: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in E major, L.430 K.531

      Performers: Anne QueffΓ©lec (piano)

      • APEX 0927 44353 2.

  • 9.12 [00’12”]:

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Suite from 'The Love for Three Oranges' Op. 33a

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

      • MERCURY 4327532.

  • 9.31 [00’31”]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Zarzycki

      Mazurka Op. 26

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)

      • EMI 562 914 2.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Overture: La forza del destino

    Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • IMG 575 126 2.

  • 9.47 [00’47”]:

    • Today’s Brainteaser Answers

      Critics' Corner

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite no 1 for small orchestra

    Performers: Ensemble InterContemporain, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK 45843.

  • 9.52 [00’52”]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Violin Concerto No. 3 in G major, K.216

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin/director), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

      • EMI CDM 769.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Spanish Melody and Spanish Dance

    Performers: Alexander Paley (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94086/6.

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

    • Claude Debussy

      Dieu! qu'il la fait bon regarder (No. 1 of Trois Chansons de Charles d'Orleans)

      Performers: Bristol University Singers, Glyn Jenkins (conductor)

      • BPI UNCD001.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI CDC 555 394 2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Clair de lune arr Roelens

    Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)

    • EMI 562 914 2.

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

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Sheherazade

      Performers: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Druian (violin), Antal Dorati (conductor)

      • MERCURY 462 953 2.

  • 11.42 [02’42”]:

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39 Nos. 2, 4 and 9

      Performers: Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

      • OLYMPIA OCD337.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Etudes-Tableaux Op. 39 Nos. 2, 4 & 9

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  • Tue 4 Sep 2012 09:00
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