Tuesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Includes Artist of the Week: the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Claire Taylor's favourite music; Rob's Essential Choice: Scriabin: Prometheus.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: a disc of Verdi opera choruses, preludes and ballet music conducted by Riccardo Muti: EMI 0980152.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.
10.30am
This week marks the biennial Sport Relief charity fund-raising effort, organized by Comic Relief in association with 大象传媒 Sport. Rob Cowan's Sport Relief guest is Claire Taylor MBE, who was named as the ICC Women's Cricketer of the Year in 2009. Claire introduces her essential pieces of classical music.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Scriabin: Prometheus
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 5677202.
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Anon.
Dindirindin
Performers: Ensemble fur Fruhe Musik Augsburg [Sabine Lutzenberger (voice)]
- CHRISTOPHORUS CHE 01302.
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Leopold Mozart
Symphony in C, Eisen C1
Performers: London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN10496.
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9.15: Rob's CD of the Week
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Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco - Chorus of the Hebrew Slaves
Performers: Chorus and Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- EMI 0980152.
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Franz Liszt
Consolations Nos. 2 and 6
Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)
- DECCA 467801.
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9.30: Artists of the Week - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
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Scheidt
Battle Suite
Performers: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- DECCA 4481832.
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Leonard Bernstein
West Side Story 鈥� Prologue
Performers: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- DECCA 4173542.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien Op.45
Performers: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- DG 4153792.
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Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka (excerpt)
Performers: The Cleveland Orchestra
- DG 4778167.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Etude en Forme de Valse Op.52 No.6
Performers: Francois-Rene Duchable
- EMI 5723562.
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10.20: Artists of the Week - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
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Giovanni Gabrieli
In ecclesiis
Performers: Thomas Elias (treble), Charles Brett (counter-tenor), William Kendall and Peter Hall (tenors), Ian Caddy (bass), Richard Farnes and Stephen Layton (organ), Choir of King's College, Cambridge, Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)
- ARGO 4174682.
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10.30: Claire Taylor's Choices
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No.40 - Allegro Assai
Performers: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)
- LINN 308.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.61 - Rondo
Performers: Viktoria Mullova (violin), Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- PHILIPS 4738722.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Alexander Scriabin
Prometheus
Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- EMI CDC 7541122.
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Wolf
Prometheus
Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Daniel Barenboim (piano)
- DG 4778707.
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Franz Liszt
Prometheus
Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
- PHILIPS 4387512.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in G minor RV331
Performers: Giuliano Carmignola (violin) and the Venice Baroque Orchestra
- DG 4778387.
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