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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Constantin Silvestri - Complete EMI Recordings; Artist of the Week; Essential Choice: Telemann: Overture in B flat, TWV 55 B1.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Constantin Silvestri - The Complete EMI Recordings: EMI ICON 7 23347 2.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.

10.30am
Essential Classics guests in the month-long Baroque Spring season include baroque music enthusiasts, and this week Rob Cowan is joined by renowned jeweller, Kevin Coates. Kevin is an award-winning independent artist-goldsmith who creates one-off jewels, larger ceremonial silver items, medals, and small sculpture. He is known for his extraordinary technical virtuosity and symbolic imagery, which is drawn from mythology, folklore, music and mathematics. His work appears in private and public collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, the British Museum, the Silver Trust for No. 10 Downing Street, and the Goldsmiths' Company, London. He is also an accomplished instrumentalist, specialising in Baroque and early Classical music, and formed the Duo Vinaccia with his wife, Nel Romano.

11am: Rob?s Essential Choice

Telemann: Overture in B flat, TWV 55:B1 (Tafelmusik, Produktion III)
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
WARNER CLASSICS DAS ALTE WERK 2564 687041-2.

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Wed 13 Mar 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Conclusion: Furioso (Tafelmusik, 3rd Production)

    Performers: Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)

    • ARCHIV 429 774-2.

  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Enescu

      Romanian Rhapsody No. 1 in A, Op. 11 No. 1

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Constatin Silvestri (conductor)

      • EMI 723347-2.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Song of the Night, Op. 19 No. 1

    Performers: Lesley Hatfield (violin), Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10725X.

  • ³Ò±ô¾±Ã¨°ù±ð

    Concert Waltz, Op. 90

    Performers: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic, Vassily Sinaisky (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10679(5).

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

      Laetatus Sum

      Performers: Max van Egmont & Jacques Villisech (basses), Alice Harnoncourt (violin), Concentus Musicus of Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

      • TELDEC 3984 21798-2.

  • Robert Schumann

    Allegro in B minor, Op. 8

    Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DG 471 368-2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    • George Frideric Handel

      Concerto grosso in B major, Op. 6 No. 7

      Performers: Concentus Musicus of Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

      • TELDEC 4509 95500-2.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Selva Morale et Spirituale: Magnificat (secondo)

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16109.

  • 10.30: Kevin Coates' Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Apollo and Hyacinthus, K.38: No. 19: "Natus cadit"

      Performers: Oebalus, King of Laconie: Markus Schäfer (tenor), Melia, his daughter: Christan Fliegner (boy soprano), Ensemble Baroque de Nice, Gerhard Schmidt-Gaden (conductor)

      • PAVANE ADW7236/37.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Apollon Musagete (conclusion): Pas de Deux; Coda – Apollon et les Muses; Apotheose

    Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • DECCA 443 577-2.

  • Franz Liszt

    Un Sospiro

    Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

    • DECCA 478 5157.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Ouverture in B flat major (Tafelmusik, 3rd Production)

      Performers: Concentus Musicus of Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

      • WARNER CLASSICS 2564 687041-2.

  • 11.35: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Claude Debussy

      La Mer

      Performers: Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra, Constatin Silvestri (conductor)

      • EMI 723347 2.

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  • Wed 13 Mar 2013 09:00
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