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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years; Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender; Rob's Essential Choice: Elgar: Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at 9.30 our brainteaser: Who's Singing?

10am
Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Penelope Wilton. Currently appearing on our screens as Isobel Crawley in Downton Abbey, Penelope is also well known for her film appearances including Cry Freedom, where she played the South African anti-apartheid activist Wendy Woods, and The History Boys. In 2004 in she was made OBE for her services to drama.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor, Op.84
John Ogdon (piano)
Allegri Quartet.

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Music Played

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Musensohn, D.764; Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118; Seligkeit, D.433

    Singer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Performer: Erik Werba.
    • EMI.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prince Rostislav

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • BIS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Hirtenmelodien (Music to Rosamunde, Princess of Cyprus)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Carl Friedrich Abel

    Overture in C major, Op 5 No 4

    Ensemble: Il Fondamento. Conductor: Paul Dombrecht.
    • PASSACAILLE.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no. 1 in D major Op.47

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Varitations on 'T盲ndeln und Scherzen' from Franz S眉ssmayr's opera, Soliman II

    Performer: Gianluca Cascioli.
    • DG.

  • Today's Brainteaser - Who's Singing?

  • Cesare Pugni

    Pas de Quatre arranged for Mme Markova by William McDermott

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar) - overture

    Orchestra: The UK Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • REGIS.

  • Franz Schubert

    Den Musensohn D.764; Gretchen an Spinnrade D.118; Seligkeit D.433

    Performer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Performer: Erik Werba.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Krommer

    Octet, Op.57

    Performer: Bl盲serensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No.4 in E flat, BWV1010

    Performer: Paul Tortelier.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Sturmisch in Lieb' und Tanz, Op.393

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • DECCA.

  • Edward Elgar

    Piano Quintet in A minor, Op 84

    Performer: John Ogdon. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.
    • EMI.

Who's Singing?

Answer:听 It was the Russian people singing at the Coronation of Boris Godunov. After the bells rang out, Prince Shuysky presented Boris to the people. <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />

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The music we heard was:

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Mussorgsky

Coronation Scene (Boris Godunov)

Prince Shuysky: Kenneth Riegel (tenor)

The Oratorio Society of Washington

The Choral Arts Society of Washington

National Symphony Orchestra

Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

ERATO 2292 45418-2

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  • Tue 29 Oct 2013 09:00
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