Wednesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, the Champagne Pianist; Proms Artist Recommends; Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Piano Concerto No 20 in D minor.
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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Office's working groups, on "engaging with women" and "preventing extremism together". She received her OBE for services to equal opportunities.
11am
Essential Choice
Mozart: Piano Concerto No.20 in D minor, K.466
Mitsuko Uchida (piano/director)
The Cleveland Orchestra.
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Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.
Music Played
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in D, TWV 55:D18: Les Postillons
Performers: Akademie fΓΌr Alte Musik Berlin
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMG 508396.97.
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9.02am
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Giuseppe Torelli
Trumpet Concerto in D major
Performers: Alison Balsom (trumpet / director), Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- EMI 216213-2.
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9.08: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Alexander Scriabin
Nocturne for the left hand in D flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano)
- EMI 679086-2.
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9.16am
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 3, Op. 72a
Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
- TESTAMENT SBT2 1481.
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9.30am
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Claude Debussy
Marche Ecossaise
Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
- PHILIPS 438 742-2.
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9.39am
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony No. 10 in B minor
Performers: Heidelberg Sinfonia, Thomas Fey (conductor)
- HANNSLER CD 98.547.
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9.51am
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John Philip Sousa
Stars and Stripes Forever (arr. Stokowski)
Performers: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra, Erich Kunzel (conductor)
- TELARC CD 80122.
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9.56am: Proms Artists Recommend - Edward Gardner
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Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion, Part I: conclusion
Performers: Evangelist: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Jesus: Andreas Schmidt (baritone), Judas: Cornelius Hauptmann (bass), The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- ARCHIV 427 648-2.
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10.30: Haleh Afshar's Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Opening movement of the String Quartet in C, K.545 'Dissonance'
Performers: Amadeus String Quartet
- DG 423 300-2.
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10.46: Haleh Afshar's Choice
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Snowflakes (The Nutcracker, Act I)
Performers: Children's Choir of L'Ecole FACE, Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 480 6549.
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10.56am
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Nedbal
Mazurka (Polish Blood)
Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vaclav Neumann (conductor)
- SUPRAPHON SU 11 1287-2.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466
Performers: Mitsuko Uchida (piano / director), The Cleveland Orchestra
- DECCA 478 2596.
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11.35am
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Schubert
Symphony No.3 in D major, D.200
Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 477 8687.
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