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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, the Champagne Pianist; Proms Artist Recommends; Rob's Essential Choice: Britten: Violin Concerto.

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
Britten: Violin Concerto
Ida Haendel (violin)
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor).

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

Music Played

  • Arthur Benjamin

    Jamaican Rumba

    Performers: The Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Carmen Dragon (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 763734-2.

  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Rondo a capriccio in G, Op. 129 'Rage over a lost penny, vented in a Caprice'

      Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

      • EMI 679086-2.

  • 9.08am

    • Johann Friedrich Fasch

      Sonata in B flat for two oboes and bassoon (Sächsische Landesbibliothek, Dresden, Mus. 242

      Performers: Ingo Goritzki and Burkhard Glaetzner (oboes), Thomas Reinhardt (bassoon), Seigfried Pank (viola da gamba), Achim Beyer (violone), Christine Schornsheim (harpsichord)

      • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94673.

  • 9.18am

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Euryanthe overture

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • DG 419 070-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Nisi Dominus (Vespers of 1610)

      Performers: Taverner Consort & Players, Andrew Parrott (director)

      • EMI CDS 747078.

  • 9.37am

    • Edvard Grieg

      Two Elegiac Melodies: Heart's Wounds; Last Spring

      Performers: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra, Iona Brown (conductor)

      • VIRGIN CLASSICS 562179-2.

  • 9.48am

    • JaromΓ­r Weinberger

      Schwanda the Bagpiper: Polka & Fugue

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • SONY 88765 41497-2.

  • 9.58am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Der Vogelfanger bin ich ja (Die Zauberflote)

      Performers: Walter Berry (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • SONY 88765 41497-2.

  • 10.02am

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Andante assai (Violin Concerto No.2 in G minor, Op.63)

      Performers: Isaac Stern (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL MYK38525.

  • 10.12am

    • CΓ©sar Franck

      Symphonic Variations

      Performers: Cedric Tibergien (piano), Orchestre Philharmonique Royal de Liege, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

      • CYPRES CYP7612.

  • 10.30: Haleh Afshar's Choice

    • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      Stabat mater: "Sancta Mater, istud agas"

      Performers: Elin Manahan Thomas (soprano), Robin Blaze (counter-tenor), Florilegium

      • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA 29810.

  • 10.42: Haleh Afshar's Choice

    • Hormoz Farhat

      Nouveau Rivage

      Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Pascal Rophe (conductor)

      • Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Recording.

  • 10.53am

    • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

      Nocturne in C minor, Op.48 No.1

      Performers: Nelson Freire (piano)

      • DECCA 478 2182.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Benjamin Britten

      Violin Concerto

      Performers: Ida Haendal (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 764202-2.

  • 11.32am

    • Bach arr. Hess

      Jesu Joy of Man's Desiring' (Chorale Prelude: Jesus bleibet meine Freude)

      Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano)

      • EMI 679086-2.

  • 11.36am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No.77 in B flat

      Performers: Stuttgart Chamber Orchestra, Dennis Russell Davies (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88697 44331-2.

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