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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Gareth Malone

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos, with Ensemble Marsyas; Brainteaser: Puzzle; Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 1.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is the charismatic broadcaster and choirmaster Gareth Malone. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Puzzle.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos - Ensemble Marsyas, LINN. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the charismatic broadcaster and choirmaster, Gareth Malone. Ahead of his appearance in one of the highlights of this year's Proms season, the War Horse Prom, Gareth will be talking to Rob about his passion for choral music. He is best known for his television appearances in programmes about singing and introducing choral music to new participants, including the BAFTA-winning series, The Choir. He has also worked for the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's, where he ran their youth choir and community choir, and later became involved with The Knight Crew, a youth opera performed at Glyndebourne and filmed for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ television series Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne. More recently he formed the Military Wives Choir, releasing records that reached No. 1 in the UK singles and albums charts, and he now directs the Gareth Malone Voices. Gareth was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Sibelius
Symphony No. 1
San Francisco Symphony
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor).

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Wed 30 Jul 2014 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude No.12 in G sharp minor

    Performer: Grigory Sokolov.
    • NAIVE.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    Caprice viennois

    Performer: Henryk Szeryng. Performer: Charles Reiner.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Horn Quartet in F major, FWV N: F3

    Performer: Alec Frank-Gemmill. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Masques et Bergamasques

    Conductor: Kazuki Yamada. Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra.
    • Pentatone.

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • William Alwyn

    Overture in the Form of a Serenade

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson. Choir: London Chorus. Singer: Micaela Haslam.
    • Dutton.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony No. 1 in G major H657

    Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore)

    Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Choir: Ambrosian Singers.
    • EMI.

  • Beethoven

    Contradanses WoO14 Nos. 9-12

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Lorin Maazel (conductor).
    • DG.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Heroic Elegy & Triumphal Epilogue

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra.
    • Dutton.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dance Op.72 No.8

    Performer: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Rafael Kubelik (conductor).
    • DG.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Laudamus te (Gloria)

    Choir: Lausanne Pro Arte Chorus. Choir: Swiss Romande Chorus. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Jesús López Cobos.
    • Decca.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    The Wasps (Overture)

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Un Ballo in Maschera 'Forse la soglia attinse'

    Performer: Carlo Bergonzi (tenor). Performer: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Performer: Gianandrea Gavazzeni (conductort).
    • DECCA.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 1 in E minor

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Decca.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto Grosso Op.10 No.2 in F

    Performer: Avison Ensemble.
    • DIVINE ART.

  • Mozart

    Symhpony No.1 in E flat K.16

    Performer: Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française. Performer: Lorin Maazel (conductor).
    • DG.

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  • Wed 30 Jul 2014 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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