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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, the Champagne Pianist; Proms Artist Recommends; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No 4 in G, Op 61.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, The Champagne Pianist; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
Proms Artist Recommends. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week, which includes the Festival of Eid-al-Fitr, is Baroness Haleh Afshar OBE, a British professor and a life peer in the House of Lords. She is a prominent Muslim feminist, and characterises herself as a Socialist and a Shi'a Muslim. She grew up in Iran and has written extensively on the country and its politics. In the UK, she is a founding member of the Muslim Women's Network and has served on the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Office's working groups, on "engaging with women" and "preventing extremism together". She received her OBE for services to equal opportunities.

11am
Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky: Orchestral Suite No.4 in G, Op.61 'Mozartiana'
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor).

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

Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'Enfants: Galop, Le Bal

    Performers: Montréal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 421 527-2.

  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction and Allegro

    Performers: Allegri String Quartet, Sinfonia of London, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI CDC 747537-2.

  • 9.16: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Valse-Impromptu in A flat, S213

      Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

      • EMI 679086-2.

  • Heinichen

    Concerto in F major, S.232

    Performers: Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (director)

    • ARCHIV 477 6330.

  • 9.30am

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Galop [of the children] and the Entrance of the Parents (The Nutcracker, Act I) 

      Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

      • DECCA 480 6549.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No. 1 in B flat major, K.207

    Performers: Gidon Kremer (violin / director), Kremerata Baltica

    • NONESUCH 7559 79886-3.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance in A, Op.46 No.5

    Performers: Czech Philharmonic, Karel Sejna

    • SUPRAPHON SU 1916-2.

  • 10am: Proms Artists Recommend - Tine Thing Helseth

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Chaconne (Partita No. 2 for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004)

      Performers: Janine Jansen (violin)

      • DECCA 475 9081.

  • Dohnanyi

    Valse aimiable (Winterreigen, Bagatelles, op.13)

    Performers: Martin Roscoe (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67871.

  • 10.30: Haleh Afshar's Choices

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Scheherazade: The Sea and Sinbad's Ship

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • RCA GD 60875.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 4 in E flat major, BWV 1010: Prelude; Allemande

    Performers: Pablo Casals (cello)

    • EMI CHS761027-2.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Orchestral Suite No. 4 in G, Op. 61 'Mozartiana'

      Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 454 253-2.

  • 11.26am

    • Astor Piazzolla

      Libertango

      Performers: Héctor Ulises Passarelle (bandoneón), Luis Bacalov (piano), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung (conductor)

      • DG 463 471-2.

  • César Franck

    Prelude, Fugue & Variation, Op. 18

    Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

    • EMI 679086-2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G, RV303

    Performers: Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Venice Baroque Orchestra, Andrea Marcon

    • DG 477 8167.

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