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Monday - Rob Cowan

A sequence of great music in classic recordings with Rob Cowan and his guest, political cartoonist and novelist Martin Rowson.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Boeuf Sur le Toit - Renaud Capu莽on (violin), Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Daniel Harding (conductor), VIRGIN 545482 2; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day an artist performing in today's Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around 10am.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the political cartoonist and novelist, Martin Rowson. His work frequently appears in The Guardian and The Independent. He also contributes freelance cartoons to other publications, such as The Daily Mirror and the Morning Star. Martin's books include graphic adaptations of The Waste Land and Tristram Shandy. His first novel Snatches is a comic journey through history, while Stuff is part autobiography, part history of his family and upbringing. In 2008 he published The Dog Allusion: Gods, Pets and How to Be Human. Martin is an Honorary Associate of the National Secular Society and a supporter of the British Humanist Association. He has been appointed 'Cartoonist Laureate' of London, and in 2006 he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Journalism from the University of Westminster.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Wagner: Wesendonck-Lieder
Hanne-Lore Kuhse (soprano)
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Vaclav Neumann (conductor).

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  • Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.

Music Played

  • 贵补耻谤茅/惭别蝉蝉补驳别谤

    Souvenir de Bayreuth, No. 1

    Performers: Jean-Philippe Collard, Bruno Rigutto (piano duo)

    • EMI 336126 2.

  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Danse macabre, Op. 4

      Performers: Renaud Capu莽on (violin), Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Daniel Harding (conductor)

      • VIRGIN 545482 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in D minor, K.397

    Performers: Maria Jo茫o Pires (piano)

    • REGIS RRC1382.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Ouverture, jointes d'une Suite tragi-comique in D, TWV 55

    Performers: Arte dei Suonatori, Martin Gester (director)

    • BIS 1979.

  • 9.30am

    • Carl Nielsen

      Dance of the Cockerels, from Maskerade

      Performers: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

      • SONY 88697 58423 2.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No. 11 in A minor, S244/11

    Performers: Georges Cziffra (piano)

    • MEMBRAN 233319.

  • Gesualdo

    Sixth Book of Madrigals: 'Al mio gioir il ciel si fa sereno'; 'Resta di darmi noia'

    Performers: La Compagnia del Madrigale

    • GLOSSA GCD 922801.

  • 9.54: Proms Artists Recommend - Daniel Hope

    • Johannes Brahms

      Quartet for piano and strings in C minor, Op. 60

      Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano), Members of The Guarneri Quartet: Arnold Steinhardt聽(violin), Michael Tree聽(viola), David Soyer聽(cello)

      • RCA 63065.

  • 10.30: Martin Rowson's Choices

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Dolly, Op. 56: Berceuse

      Performers: Jean-Philippe Collard, Bruno Rigutto (pianos)

      • EMI 336126 2.

  • Bizet, orch. Robert Russell Bennett

    Carmen Jones聽鈥撀�'Stan' up an' Fight'

    Performers: Brock Peters (Sgt Brown), [uncredited chorus and orchestra]

    • ASWAS CD6693.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen, Act 4: conclusion

    Performers: Teresa Berganza (soprano 鈥� Carmen), Pl谩cido Domingo (tenor 鈥� Don Jos茅), The Ambrosian Singers, London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 477 9144.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Richard Wagner

      Wesendonck Lieder (orch. Mottl)

      Performers: Hanne-Lore Kuhse (soprano), Gewandhaus Orchestra, V谩clav Neumann (conductor)

      • BERLIN CLASSICS 0013242BC.

  • 11.24am

    • B茅la Bart贸k

      Suite No. 2 (revised 1943)

      Performers: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dor谩ti (conductor)

      • MERCURY 434 350-2.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Danse des Sylphes, from Le Damnation de Faust, op.21

    Performers: Halle Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • The Barbirolli Society SJB 1065-66.

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