Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Monday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig

With Rob Cowan. Includes CD of the Week: Incarnation - Christmas Music; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski; Broadcaster Sandi Toksvig; Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 6.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Dvorak
Symphony No. 6
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 23 Dec 2013 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Friday - Rob Cowan with Russell Grant

Next

Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig

See all episodes from Essential Classics

Music Played

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    The Comedians, Op. 26: Galop

    Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • RCA.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila: Overture

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Constantin Silvestri.
    • EMI.

  • Herbert Howells

    Cortege, from Pageantry

    Ensemble: Black Dyke Band. Conductor: Major Peter Parkes.
    • Signum.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Slavonic Rhapsody in D, Op. 45 No. 1

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Bohumil Gregor.
    • Supraphon.

  • anon

    Who's Marching?

    Conductor: anon.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Un pensiero voli in ciel (Il delirio amoroso)

    Singer: Magdalena KoΕΎenΓ΅. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Archiv.

  • Percy Grainger

    Hill Song No 2

    Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in B minor, Op 32 no.10

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 94 in G 'Surprise'

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Naive.

  • Gustav Holst

    In the Bleak Midwinter

    Performer: Handel and Haydn Society. Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor).
    • CORO.

  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's Apprentice

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.
    • Disney.

  • Borge

    A Mozart Opera

    Singer: Victor Borge.
    • Sony.

  • Emil Montia

    Colindita

    Performer: Angela Gheorghiou (soprano). Performer: Orchestra Nationyala Radio Tiberiu.
    • MEDIA PRO MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Symphony No. 6 in D, Op. 60

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: IstvΓ΅n KertΓ©sz.
    • Decca.

  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    7 Sonatas from Veintiseis Sonatas Ineditas para clave; nos 3 (K541) and 4 (K533)

    Performer: Sandro Russo (piano).
    • MUSICAL CONCEPTS.

  • Borodin (arr. Skip Martin)

    Swingin' with Prince Igor; Polovtsian Dance One

    Performer: Skip Martin's All-Star Jazz Band. Performer: Skip Martin (conductor).
    • FLARE.

Broadcast

  • Mon 23 Dec 2013 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.