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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54.

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

Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Van Cliburn (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor).

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Fri 19 Apr 2013 09:00
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Music Played

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

    • Novacek arr. Gamley

      Moto Perpetuo

      Performers: The Sinfonia of London, Douglas Gamley (conductor)

      • VOCALION CDLK4181.

  • 9.03am

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto for recorder, oboe, violin, bassoon and basso continuo, RV 105

      Performers: Michala Petri (recorder), Heinz Holliger (oboe), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Felix Ayo (violin), I Musici

      • PHILIPS 411 356-2.

  • 9.13: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Rodgers arr. Gamley

      The Carousel Waltz

      Performers: The Sinfonia of London, Douglas Gamley (conductor)

      • VOCALION CDLK4181.

  • 9.20am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Te Deum, Hob. XXIIIc: 2

      Performers: RIAS Chamber Choir, NDR Choir, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)

      • DG 463 612-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • 9.33: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in C sharp minor, K.247; Sonata in D major, K.29

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

      • SONY SK 62785.

  • 9.46am

    • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      In Czechia

      Performers: USSR Sate Academic Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

      • MELODIYA MEL CD 10 01877.

  • 9.58am

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Song without Words, Op.30 No.6 'Venetian Gondola Song'

      Performers: Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu (piano)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 66511.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • Franz Schubert

      Fantasia for piano, four hands, in F minor, D.940

      Performers: Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu (piano)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 39511.

  • 10.23am

    • George Frideric Handel

      Concerto grosso in D major, Op.3 No.6

      Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (director)

      • WARNER 2564 69720-1.

  • 10.30: Alys Fowler's Choices

    • GyΓ¶rgy Ligeti

      Lux aeterna

      Performers: Schola Cantorum Stuttgart, Clytus Gottwald (director)

      • WERGO WER 6903-2 / 286 903-2.

  • 10.44am

    • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

      Four Orchestral Pieces Sz 51 (Op. 12): I Preludio (Moderato)

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

      • DG 477 8125.

  • 10.53am

    • Jules Massenet

      Le Cid ballet music: Andalouse; Aragonaise; Aubade

      Performers: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Martinon (conductor)

      • DECCA 475 7209.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Robert Schumann

      Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

      Performers: Van Cliburn (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • SONY 88765 40723-2.

    • Robert Schumann

      Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 54

      Performers: Van Cliburn (piano), Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • SONY 88765 40723-2.

  • 11.31am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No.97

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

      • RCO LIVE RCO12004.

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  • Fri 19 Apr 2013 09:00
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