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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Includes Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat, K449.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Irving and Gamley present a Musical Merry-Go-Round and Famous Evergreens

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the pianist Murray Perahia.

10.30am
Rob's guest in National Gardening Week is Alys Fowler. Alys has been a gardener since her teens, and after leaving school trained with the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the New York Botanical Gardens. She later worked as a journalist on Horticulture Week and Landscape Review and joined 大象传媒 TV's Gardeners' World team first as a horticultural researcher and later as Head Gardener at the programme's Berryfields garden. She has also presented on Hampton Court Flower Show. Her books include The Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden and The Thrifty Forager.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat, K.449
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
Bath Festival Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Tue 16 Apr 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Hornpipe in D minor (The Fairy Queen, Z629)

    Performers: Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (director)

    • ARCHIV 479 0077.
  • 9.02am

    • J.C. Bach

      Symphony in G minor, Op. 6 No. 6

      Performers: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)

      • NEWTON CLASSICS 8802065.
  • 9.11: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Debussy arr. Caplet

      Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)

      Performers: The Sinfonia of London, Robert Irving (conductor)

      • VOCALION CDLK4181.
  • 9.16am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Divertimento for quartet or orchestra in D major, K.136, aka 'Salzburg Symphony No. 1'

      Performers: Hagen Quartet

      • DG 431 645-2.
  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Etudes, Op. 25 Nos. 6-10

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

      • SONY 88697 64823-2.
  • 9.48am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Coriolan Overture, Op. 62

      Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

      • TELDEC 0630 13140-2.
  • 9.57am

    • Gustav Mahler

      Nun she' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (Kindertotenlieder)

      Performers: Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

      • EMI CDC747793-2.
  • 10.04am: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 6

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

      • SONY 88697 00818-2.
  • 10.30: Alys Fowler's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Prelude; Allemande (Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007)

      Performers: Yo-Yo Ma (cello)

      • SONY CLASSICAL S2K 63203.
  • 10.43am

    • Olivier Messiaen

      Louange 脿 l'茅ternit茅 de Jesus (Quartet for the end of time)

      Performers: Jian Wang (cello), Myung-Whun Chung (piano)

      • DG 469 052-2.
  • 10.57am

    • Anon. arr. Morini

      Ballo de li Sante

      Performers: Instrumental band directed by Guido Morini

      • ALPHA 532.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto in E flat major, K.449

      Performers: Hephzibah Menuhin (piano), Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)

      • EMI SPCD1944.
  • 11.23am

    • Alfred Schnittke

      Suite in Old Style

      Performers: Daniel Shafran (cello), Anton Ginzburg (piano)

      • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93096.
  • 11.34am

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony No.3 in D major, D200

      Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

      • AUDITE 92.542.

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  • Tue 16 Apr 2013 09:00

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