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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; CD Review's Building a Library recommendation: Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Irving and Gamley present a Musical Merry-Go-Round and Famous Evergreens

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the pianist Murray Perahia.

10.30am
Rob?s guest in National Gardening Week is Alys Fowler. Alys has been a gardener since her teens, and after leaving school trained with the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the New York Botanical Gardens. She later worked as a journalist on Horticulture Week and Landscape Review and joined Â鶹ԼÅÄ TV?s Gardeners' World team first as a horticultural researcher and later as Head Gardener at the programme's Berryfields garden. She has also presented on Hampton Court Flower Show. Her books include The Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden and The Thrifty Forager.

11am
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday?s CD Review
Liszt: Piano Concerto No.2.

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Mon 15 Apr 2013 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Gigue (Suite in G minor, HWV 432)

    Performers: Gilbert Rowland (harpsichord)

    • DIVINE ART DDA21220.

  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Amilcare Ponchielli

      Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)

      Performers: The Sinfonia of London, Robert Irving (conductor)

      • VOCALION CDLK4181.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore No. 3, Op. 72a

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

    • EMI 573900-2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    La finta giardiniera, K.196

    Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)

    • EMI 463989-2.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Dancing?

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

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in G minor HWV.393 'Dresden no.2'

    Ensemble: Ensemble Zefiro.

    Performers: Ensemble Zefiro

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 88697 63023-2.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances, Op. 46: No. 5 in A major – skocná; No. 6 in D major – sousedská; No. 7 in

    Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

    • DG 419 056-2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Keyboard Concerto in D minor, BWV 1052

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano), Academy of St Martin in the Fields

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK89245.

  • 10.20am

    • Hector Berlioz

      Romeo & Juliette: Queen Mab Scherzo

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 462 252-2.

  • 10.30: Alys Fowler's Choices

    • Erik Satie

      Gymnopedie No. 3

      Performers: Aldo Ciccolini (piano)

      • EMI 567239-2.

  • Steve Reich

    Music for 18 Musicians: excerpt from Section 3A & 3B

    Performers: Steve Reich and Musicians

    • ECM 821 417-2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto No. 1 in E major, 'La Primavera', RV 269

    Performers: Nigel Kennedy (violin/director), English Chamber Orchestra

    • EMI CDC 749557-2.

  • 11am

    • Franz Liszt

      Piano Concerto No. 2

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday’s CD Review

  • 11.20am

    • Edward Elgar

      Variations on an Original Theme 'Enigma'

      Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

      • BR 900705.

  • 11.50am

    • Friedrich Silcher

      Mein Roslein

      Performers: South German Radio Choir, Rupert Huber (conductor)

      • CARUS 83.322.

Broadcast

  • Mon 15 Apr 2013 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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