Thursday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op 48.
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
Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings, Op.48
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Charles Munch (conductor).
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R. Mackintosh
Gavotta No. 29
Performers: Concerto Caledonia
- DELPHIAN DCD34128.
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9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Liszt (arr. Sir Henry Wood)
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Performers: The Sinfonia of London, Robert Irving (conductor)
- VOCALION CDLK4181.
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9.10am
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Westhoff arr. Badzura
Imitazione della Campane (Sonata for violin and continuo No. 3)
Performers: Daniel Hope (violin), Deutsches Kammerorchester Berlin
- DG 479 0571.
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9.14am
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Robert Schumann
Marchenbilder, Op. 113
Performers: Rachel Roberts (viola), Lars Vogt (piano)
- AVI-MUSIC / DEUTSCHRUNDFUNK 8553181.
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9.30am
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Today's Brainteaser
What am I?
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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9.31am
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Liadov
Scherzo No. 1, Op. 16
Performers: Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Shpiller (conductor)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94077.
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9.39am
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Bridge
Two Entr'actes: Rosemary, H.68b; Canzonetta, H.169
Performers: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)
- CHANDOS 10729(6)X.
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9.46am
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Sergey Prokofiev
Symphony No. 1 in D major, Op. 25 'Classical'
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DECCA 480 6611.
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10.02am
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Goldberg Variations: conclusion
Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)
- SONY CLASSICAL SK89243.
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10.15am
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Debussy orch. Jarrel
Three Etudes: Nos 6, 9 & 10
Performers: Lyon National Orchestra, Jun Markl (conductor)
- NAXOS 8509002.
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10.30: Alys Fowler's Choice
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Gabriel Faur茅
Requiem: Libera me; In Paradisum
Performers: Thomas Hampson (baritone), Ambrosian Singers, Philharmonia Orchestra, Michel Legrand (conductor)
- TELDEC 4509 90879-2.
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10.43: Alys Fowler's Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Andante (Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.467)
Performers: G茅za Anda (piano), Camerata Academica des Salzburger Mozarteums
- DG 469 510-2.
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10.53am
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Engelbert Humperdinck
String Quartet in C minor
Performers: Diogenes Quartet
- CPO 777 547-2.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade for Strings, Op. 48
Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)
- SONY 88697 89979-2.
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11.28am
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Still
Land of Romance (Africa)
Performers: Lara Downes (piano)
- STEINWAY & SONS 30016.
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11.35am
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Grieg orch. Kraggerud & Lund
Violin Concerto No.2 in G, Op.13
Performers: Henning Kraggerud (violin), Tromso Chamber Orchestra
- NAXOS 8573137.
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