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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; Rob's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 1 in F sharp minor, Op 1.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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
Rob's Essential Choice

Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No.1 in F sharp minor, Op.1
Byron Janis (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor).

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Wed 17 Apr 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • 9am: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Mendelssohn arr. Banks

      Bees' Wedding [Song without words, Op. 67 No. 4]

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

      • VOCALION CDLK 4181.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

    Performers: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

    • EMI CMS 7 64002 2.

  • 9.08am: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Pietro Mascagni

      Cavalleria Rusticana (Intermezzo Sinfonico)

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

      • VOCALION CDLK4181.

  • 9.13am

    • Ibert

      Escales

      Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)

      • RCA 82876 61387-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • George Frideric Handel

      Chaconne in G major, HWV 435

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 62785.

  • 9.43am

    • Maurice Ravel

      Introduction and Allegro

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 63683-2.

  • 9.54am

    • Franz Schubert

      Der Lindenbaum; Wasserflut (Winterreise)

      Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

      • EMI 562784-2.

  • 10.04am: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Quintet for piano and winds, K.452

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano), Members of the English Chamber Orchestra: Neil Black (oboe), Thea King (clarinet), Tony Halstead (horn), Graham Sheen (bassoon)

      • CBS MASTERWORKS MK 42099.

  • 10.30: Alys Fowler's Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Chromatic Fantasy, BWV 903

      Performers: Glenn Gould (piano)

      • SONY SMK 52620.

  • 10.41: Alys Fowler's Choice

    • George Frideric Handel

      Lontan del mio tesoro (Il pastor fido, HWV 8a, first version, 1712)

      Performers: Mirtillo: Anna Dennis (soprano), La Nuova Musica, David Bates (director)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907585/86.

  • 10.51am

    • Adolphe Adam

      Giselle: Finale to Act I

      Performers: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor)

      • DECCA 475 7209.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Piano Concerto No. 1 in F sharp minor, Op. 1

      Performers: Byron Janis (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • SONY 88725 48440-2.

  • 11.27am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      String Quartet, Op.135

      Performers: Belcea Quartet

      • ZIG-ZAG TERRITORIES ZZT321.

  • 11.50am

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Lobet den Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV230

      Performers: Netherlands Chamber Choir, Ton Koopman (director)

      • DECCA 478 5152.

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