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18/09/2011

Rob Cowan plays great music, featuring the best recordings from the archive and the present day. Including works by Dvorak, Mendelssohn, Bach and Tchaikovsky.

Rob Cowan plays three hours of great music, featuring the best recordings from the archive and the present day.

9.00
Dvorak, J.C Bach, Mendelssohn

9.50
Pianist Mark Swartzentruber will be in the studio to respond to a blind-tasting of Rob's mystery piece.

10.30
Saint-Saëns arrangement of Bach Cantata No 8

Jascha Heifetz plays Spohr Violin Concerto No 8 in A minor

11.00
Works by Grieg, Korngold and Tchaikovsky.

3 hours

Last on

Sun 18 Sep 2011 09:00

Music Played

  • Antonín Dvořák

    I know that on my love to thee (Cypresses No. 1)

    Performers: Panocha Quartet

    • Supraphon SU 3815-2, CD 7 T1.
  • Johann Christoph Bach

    Der Gerechte, ob er gleich zu seitlich stirbt

    Performers: English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SDG 715 T4.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo brillant, Op. 29

    Performers: Martin Helmchen (piano), Royal Flemish Philharmonic Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

    • Pentatone PTC 5186 366.
  • Manuel de Falla

    El Amor Brujo

    Performers: Leontyne Price, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

    • Living Stereo 7885387.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Music for the Royal Fireworks

    Performers: Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • Testament 1253.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    16 Songs for Children, Op. 54 No.10: Lullaby in a Storm

    Performers: Georgi Vinogradov (tenor), Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Leonid Piatigorsky (conductor)

    • Immortal Performances IPCD 1008-1 Tr 4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Fairy's Kiss - from Scene 1

    Performers: Grand Symphony Orchestra of the All-Union Radio and Television, Gennadi Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

    • Melodiya MEL CD 10 01833 Tr 1.
  • Guillaume de Machaut

    De toutes flours

    Performers: Orlando Consort

    • Archiv Production 477 6731.
  • Michael Torke

    Fiji

    Performers: Ensemble 10/10, Clark Rundell (conductor)

    • Ecstatic Records 92231.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Andantino from Cantata No. 8

    Performers: Nadejda Vlaeva (piano) Arranger: Camille Saint-Saëns

    • Hyperion CDA67873.
  • Louis Spohr

    Violin Concerto No 8 in A minor

    Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin) , RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra ,Izler Solomon (conductor)

    • Naxos 8111371.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt – Anitra's Dance

    Performers: Mie Miki (accordion)

    • BIS BIS-CD-1629.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    L'estro armonico: Concerto No. 10

    Performers: Fabio Biondi (violin/Director), Europa Galante

    • Virgin Classics 648408 2.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Die Tote Stadt – Glück, das mir verblieb

    Performers: Carol Neblett (soprano) , René Kollo (tenor), Munich Radio Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

    • RCA 88697446602.
  • Henry Purcell

    Fantasia upon One Note

    Performers: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Franz Bruggen (director)

    • Phillips 426 714-2 T1.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite No. 2 in C, Op. 53

    Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic, Aleksander Dimitriev

    • Melodiya MEL CD 1000969.

Broadcast

  • Sun 18 Sep 2011 09:00