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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including; Artist of the Week: Gennady Rozhdestvensky in Weber: Turandot. Prokofiev: Cinderella; Rob's Essential Choice: Finzi: Dies natalis, Op 8.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Placido Domingo, The Verdi Tenor, with contributions from Katia Ricciarelli and others: RCA RED SEAL 88697840172.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Russian conductor Gennady Rozhdestvensky, in music by Weber (Turandot) and Prokofiev (Cinderella).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the author Helen Dunmore, winner of the Orange Prize (for her third novel A Spell of Winter). Today she remembers a great performer who is no longer with us, and Rob acts as her personal shopper, presenting her with a mystery piece, which he hopes she will like!

11am
Rob's Essential Choice:

Finzi
Dies natalis, Op. 8.
Wilfred Brown (tenor),
English Chamber Orchestra,
Christopher Finzi.
EMI 5 65588 2.

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Fri 25 Nov 2011 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Contre-danse (Les Indes Galantes)

    Performers: Collegium Aureum

    • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI DHM 05472 77420-2.

  • Robert Schumann

    Adagio and Allegro

    Performers: Pierre Fournier (cello), Lamar Crowson (piano)

    • DG 447 349-2.

  • 9.13am: Rob's CD of the Week

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      "Gi脿 nella note densa" (Otello) Love duet

      Performers: Placido Domingo (tenor), Katia Ricciarelli (soprano), Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Gianadrea Gavazzeni (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88697 84017-2.

  • Breton

    En la Alhambra - Serenata

    Performers: Grand Symphony Orchestra, Ataulfo Argenta (conductor)

    • MEDICI ARTS MM034-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Johann Strauss II - Auf dem Jagd

      Performers: Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna, Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

  • 9.38am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Frederick Delius

      A Song of the High Hills

      Performers: 大象传媒 Singers, 大象传媒 Symphony Chorus & Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • CARLTON CLASSICS 15656 91332.

  • 10.04am

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      La donna e mobile (Rigoletto)

      Performers: Placido Domingo (tenor), London Symphony Orchestra, Nello Santi (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88697 84017-2.

  • 10.08am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Turandot: overture

      Performers: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • HMV ASD 3714.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in F minor, Op.7 No.3

    Performers: Marjan Kiepura (piano)

    • KIE2000.

  • 10.14am: Artist of the Week - Gennady Rozhdestvensky

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Cinderella's Departure for the Ball; Entertainment of the Guests; Duet of the Sisters with

      Performers: USSR RTV Large Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • MELODIYA 74321 54358-2.

  • 10.30am: Helen Dunmore's Choice

    • Franz Schubert

      Du bist die Ruh'

      Performers: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Bruno Walter (piano)

      • DECCA 414 611-2.

  • 10.39am: Rob's Personal Shopper piece for Helen

    • Johannes Brahms

      Alto Rhapsody

      Performers: Aafje Heynis (alto), Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreunde, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 438 760-2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F sharp minor (Well-tempered Clavier, Book 1)

    Performers: Pierre Hantai (harpsichord)

    • MIRARE MIR9930.

  • 11.00am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Gerald Finzi

      Dies Natalis, Op.8

      Performers: Wilfred Brown (tenor), English Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Finzi (conductor)

      • EMI 565588-2.

  • 11.27am

    • Johannes Brahms

      Violin Sonata No.1 in G major, Op.78

      Performers: Henryk Szeryng (violin), Artur Rubinstein (piano)

      • RCA 88697 76099-2.

  • Astor Piazzolla

    Yo Soy Maria (Maria de Buenos Aires)

    Performers: Julia Nenko (vocal), Instrumental Ensemble directed by Gidon Kremer

    • TELDEC 3984 20632-2.

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  • Fri 25 Nov 2011 09:00
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