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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Karajan Conducts Works of the Great Composers; Artists of the Week: Il Giardino Armonico; Rob's Essential Choice: Mahler: Symphony No 8.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Karajan Conducts Works Of The Great Composers: MAJOR CLASSICS M3CD305

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the pioneering Italian early music ensemble, Il Giardino Armonico.

10.30am
This week Rob Cowan is joined by arts administrator and broadcaster Sir John Tusa. During the 1980s Sir John was a main presenter of 麻豆约拍 2's Newsnight programme, after which he was managing director of the 麻豆约拍 World Service. From 1995 until 2007 he was managing director of the City of London's Barbican Arts Centre, and since 1998 he has been chairman of the board of the Wigmore Hall. He has written two books jointly with his historian wife Ann Tusa: The Nuremberg Trial and The Berlin Blockade. His writings on the arts include On Creativity, The Janus Aspect: Artists in the C20 and more recently, Engaged with the Arts: Writings from the Frontline (2007), which explores ways that the arts can be encouraged in climates where funding is constantly under threat. He continues to write and broadcast widely.

11am: Rob's Essential Choice

Mahler: Symphony No. 8 'Symphony of a thousand', Part II
Julia Varady (soprano)
Jane Eaglen (soprano)
Susan Bullock (soprano)
Trudlelise Schmidt (alto)
Jadwiga Rappe (alto)
Kenneth Riegel (tenor)
Eike Wilme Schulte (baritone)
Hans Sotin (bass)
London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Eton College Boys鈥� Choir
London Symphony Chorus
Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
LPO LIVE 0052

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Thu 11 Apr 2013 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    7 Variations on 'Bei Mannern, welche liebe Fuhlen', WoO 46: Variation 7 - Allegro, ma no t

    Performers: Mischa Maisky (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)

    • DG 477 9524.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Medee: Overture

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

    • EMI 7544382.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurkas in B minor, Op. 33 No. 4; in C, Op. 56 No. 2

    Performers: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

    • DG 469 8202.

  • 9.21: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      The Hebrides Overture

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • MAJOR CLASSICS M3CD305.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • 9.32: Artists of the Week - Il Giardino Armonico

    • Dario Castello

      Ciaccona

      Performers: Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

      • WARNER 632642.

  • Giovanni Battista Fontana

    Sonata XV

    Performers: Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

    • WARNER 632642.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Ballad of Blanik

    Performers: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Tomas Netopil (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON SU 41312.

  • Ginastera

    Estancia Op.8 - Danzas del Ballet

    Performers: Simon Bolivar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

    • DG 4777457.

  • 10.05: Artists of the Week - Il Giardino Armonico

    • Arcangelo Corelli

      Concerti Grosso in G minor, Op. 6 No. 8 "Christmas"

      Performers: Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (conductor)

      • TELDEC 2292460132.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Sadko Op.5

    Performers: USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeney Svetlanov (conductor)

    • MELODIYA 74321341652.

  • 10.30: Sir John Tusa's Choices

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      Piano Trio in B flat, Op. 21: Allegro molto

      Performers: Beaux Arts Trio

      • PHILIPS 454 259-2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat, Op. 90/D.899 No. 4

    Performers: Arthur Schnabel (piano)

    • EMI CDH 7610212.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Sinfonia de Il ritorno d'Visse in Patria

    Performers: Il Giardano Armonico

    • WARNER 2564632642.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Gustav Mahler

      Symphony No. 8, Pt II

      Performers: Julia Varady (soprano), Jane Eaglen (soprano), Susan Bullock (soprano), Trudlelise Schmidt (alto), Jadwiga Rappe (alto), Kenneth Riegel (tenor), Eike Wilme Schulte (baritone), Hans Sotin (bass), London Philharmonic Choir and Orchestra, Eton College Boys鈥� Choir, London Symphony Chorus, Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

      • LPO LIVE 0052.

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  • Thu 11 Apr 2013 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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