Wednesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Artist of the Week: the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble; Claire Taylor's favourite music; Rob's Essential Choice: Rameau: Dardanus Suite.
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
Rameau: Dardanus Suite
European Union Baroque Orchestra
Roy Goodman (conductor)
NAXOS 8.557490.
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Franz Leh谩r
Die Lustige Witwe - Act III, Dance scene
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- DG 4399112.
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9.02: Rob's CD of the Week
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Giuseppe Verdi
Macbeth - Prelude (Act I) and Ballo (Act II)
Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)
- EMI 0980152.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Les Indes Galantes - excerpt
Performers: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans Bruggen (conductor)
- PHILIPS 4727780.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Mazurka in A minor Op.17 No.4
Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)
- SONY 64399.
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9.32: Artists of the Week - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
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Michael Berkeley
Music from Chaucer - The Wakeful Poet
Performers: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- CHANDOS CHAN 8490.
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Richard Wagner - Das Rheingold - Entry of the Gods into Valhalla (arr. Chas O'Neill)
Performers: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble, Elgar Howarth (conductor)
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Jean Sibelius
Tapiola
Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Thomas Beecham (conductor)
- EMI CDM 7634002.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Ernani - 'Eviva! Beviam! Beviam!
Performers: Chorus and Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Richard Armstrong (conductor)
- EMI 6085122.
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Claude Debussy
Images - Book I (Hommage a Rameau & Mouvements)
Performers: Mark Schwartzentruber (piano)
- SOLO SLR5.
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10.22: Artists of the Week - Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
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Francis Poulenc
Sonata for Trumpet, Horn and Trombone
Performers: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble
- DECCA 470501.
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10.30: Claire Taylor's Choices
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker (excerpt)
Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
- DG 4290972.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Marriage of Figaro - Duettino "Sull'aria...che soave zeffiretto"
Performers: La Contessa: Gundula Janowitz (soprano), Susanna: Edith Mathis (soprano), Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Karl B枚hm (conductor)
- DG 4298692.
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Trad.
Kamarinskaya
Performers: Red Army Ensemble
- EMI 3920312.
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Lady John Scott
Annie Laurie
Performers: Red Army Ensemble
- EMI 3920312.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Dardanus Suite
Performers: European Union Baroque Orchestra, Roy Goodman (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.557490.
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Bach
Prelude and Fugue in D BWV850
Performers: Rosalyn Tureck (piano)
- VAIA 1139.
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Granados
Piano Quintet in G minor Op.49
Performers: Gabriela Montero (piano), Alissa Margulis (violin), Geza Hosszu-Legocky (violin), Lyda Chen (viola), Natalia Margulis (cello)
- CHANDOS CHAN 9650.
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Ernest Chausson
La Tempete Op. 18 - Air de danse and Danse rustique
Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 9650.
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