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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. 9.00am Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff. 9.30am Artists of the Week. 11.00am Rob's Essential Choice: Strauss: Aus Italien.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff and the Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performance by the Artists of the Week, the Guarneri Quartet.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope.

Overflow and notes:
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Strauss: Aus Italien
Staatskapelle Dresden
Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
EMI CMS 764350-2.

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Wed 1 Aug 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Dance du corps de ballet et des nains (Swan Lake, Act III No.16)

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Pr茅vin (conductor)

    • EMI 967684-2.

  • 9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Adolphe Adam

      Si j'茅tais Roi: Overture

      Performers: Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra, Albert Wolff (conductor)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 1308.

  • 9.11am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Sonata in G major, Op. 30 No. 3

      Performers: Josef Suk (violin), Jan Panenka (piano)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 4077-2.

  • 9.32am

    • Lyadov

      Scherzo No. 1, Op. 16

      Performers: Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Shpiller (conductor)

      • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94077.

  • 9.40am

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Clarinet Concertino in E flat, Op.26

      Performers: Maximiliano Martin (clarinet), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Antonio Janiczek (conductor)

      • LINN CKD409.

  • 9.51am

    • Georges Bizet

      "Au fond du temple saint" (The Pearl Fishers)

      Performers: Jussi Bjorling (tenor), Robert Merrill (baritone), RCA Victor Orchestra, Renato Cellini (conductor)

      • RCA GD 87799.

  • 9.57: Artists of the Week - Guarneri Quartet

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 15

      Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano), Members of the Guarneri Quartet: John Dalley (violin), Michael Tree (viola), David Soyer (cello)

      • RCA RD86256.

  • 10.30: Joanna Trollope's Choice

    • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Violin Concerto in D major

      Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Pr茅vin (conductor)

      • DG 477 8114.

  • 10.59am

    • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

      La Joyeuse (Suite in D, 1724)

      Performers: Jill Crossland (piano)

      • SIGNUM SIGCD278.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Richard Strauss

      Aus Italien

      Performers: Dresden Staatskapelle, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

      • EMI CMS 764350-2.

  • 11.45am

    • Coleridge-Taylor

      Petite Suite de Concert, Op.77

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, George Wheldon (conductor)

      • EMI 587024-2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 1 Aug 2012 09:00
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