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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years; Artist of the Week: Brigitte Fassbaender; Rob's Essential Choice: Debussy: Violin Sonata.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Paavo Berglund - The Bournemouth Years and at 9.30 our brainteaser: Back to the Beginning.

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
Debussy
Violin Sonata
Arthur Grumiaux (violin)
Istv谩n Hajdu (piano)

Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Rob dips into his CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!

3 hours

Last on

Wed 30 Oct 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Stick Dance (Romanian Folk Dance No.1)

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johan Halvorsen

    Entry of the Boyars

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

    Piano Sonata in G minor, Hob. XVI:44

    Performer: Ekaterina Dershavina.
    • PROFIL.
  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes: Sir猫nes

    Choir: Royal Concertgebouw Choir. Orchestra: Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Trois Nocturnes, Jeux (Concertgebouw Orchestra feat. conductor: Bernard Haitink).
    • PHILIPS.
    • 003.
  • Today's Brainteaser - Back to the Beginning

  • Arvo P盲rt

    My heart's in the highlands

    Singer: Else Torp. Performer: Christopher Bowers-Broadbent.
    • Creator Spiritus.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 006.
  • Eric Coates

    London Everyday

    Performer: Rumon Gamba. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Agnus Dei (Petite Messe solennelle)

    Performer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Performer: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que. Performer: David Briggs. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.
    • EMI.
  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale, Op 52

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • AUDITE.
  • Johannes Hanssen

    Valdres March

    Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bjarte Engeset.
    • NAXOS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • DG.
  • Detroit Symphony Orchestra

    Zampa: overture

    Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.
  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata in G minor for Violin and Piano

    Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Istv谩n Hajdu.
    • 3 Sonatas / Syrinx.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 001-003.
  • Kurt Weill

    Suite panam茅enne

    Ensemble: Ensemble Modern. Conductor: H. K. Gruber.
    • LARGO.
  • Johann Ludwig Bach

    Ich will meinen Geist in euch geben

    Singer: Maria Zadori. Singer: Lena Susanne Norin. Singer: Wilfried Jochens. Singer: Stephan Schreckenberger. Choir: Rheinische Kantorei. Orchestra: Das Kleine Konzert. Conductor: Hermann Max.
    • CAPRICCIO.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Aladdin Suite: selection

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Esa鈥怭ekka Salonen.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

Back to the Beginning

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Wagner

Ride of the Valkyries

Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra

Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

EMI CZS 568616 2

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