Friday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Includes Artist of the Week: Martha Argerich (piano). Schubert: Rondo in A, D951. Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite; Rob's Essential Choice: Bartok: Piano Concerto No 3.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Idylls - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Neville Marriner (conductor) PHILIPS 442 8415.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Martha Argerich. Today we hear her in a pair of piano duets, including Schubert's Rondo in A D.951 and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, and as soloist in the third of Bartok's three piano concertos.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest this week is science writer, broadcaster and professor of genetics Prof. Steve Jones. On his final day as this week's guest, he talks about a work that reminds him of a particular place, as well as a piece he enjoys playing himself, and Rob acts as his Personal Shopper with a mystery piece for Steve.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice.
Bartok: Piano Concerto No. 3
Martha Argerich (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Claus Peter Flor (conductor)
RCO 11004.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Allegretto (4th movement) from Divertimento no 2 in D major K131
Performers: Maurice Sharp (flute), Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)
- CBS M2YK46463.
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9.03: Rob's CD of the Week
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Percy Grainger
Youthful Rapture
Performers: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
- PHILIPS 442 8417.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano sonata no 22 in F op 54
Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)
- PHILIPS 412 575 2.
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Johann Strauss II - Overture: Der Zigeunerbaron
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber
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Peerson
Fantasia in D minor a 6 (PIII.10)
Performers: Fretwork
- REGENT REGCD341.
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9.35: Artist of the Week - Martha Argerich
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Franz Schubert
Rondo in A major D951 "Grande Rondeau"
Performers: Nelson Freire & Martha Argerich (pianos)
- DG 477 9555.
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Johann Friedrich Fasch
Sinfonia in G minor FWV M:g1
Performers: Tempesta di Mare, The Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra
- CHACONNE CHAN0783.
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Vesta la guibba from I Pagliacci
Performers: Mario Lanza (tenor), Orchestra conducted by Constantine Callinicos
- RCA RD 86218.
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10.05: Artist of the Week - Martha Argerich
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Tchaikovsky trans Nicolas Economou
Nutcracker Suite op 71a
Performers: Martha Argerich & Mirabela Dina (pianos)
- EMI 094053 2.
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10.30: Steve Jones' Choices
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Troyte (text Dylan Thomas)
Eli Jenkins' Prayer from Under Milk Wood
Performers: Dunvant Male Choir
- DUNCD05.
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Fernando Sor
Etudes 鈥� op 35 no 14 (1.36); op 6 no 2 (1.05); op 35 no 16 (1.36); op 35 no 22 (2.58)
Performers: Narciso Yepes (guitar)
- DG 435 842 2.
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Pfitzner
Prelude to Act 2 of Palestrina
Performers: Bishop Ercole Severolus: Gerd Nienstedt, Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 9093.
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Robert Schumann
Er, der herrlichste von allen from Frauenliebe und-leben
Performers: Lisa della Casa (soprano), Sebastian Peschko (piano)
- EMI 567 678 2.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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B茅la Bart贸k
Piano Concerto no 3
Performers: Martha Argerich (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Claus Peter Flor (conductor)
- RCO 11004.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Oboe Sonata in G minor
Performers: Katharina Arfken (oboe), Guido Larisch (cello), Michael Behringer (harpsichord)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902042.
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John Taverner
Audivi vocem
Performers: Alamire
- OBSIDIAN CD707.
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Richard Wagner - Prelude and Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde)
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
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