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Thursday - 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: Schubert: String Quartet in G.

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

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
Schubert
String Quartet in G, D887
Belcea Quartet.

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Thu 31 Oct 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Alexei Lvov

    God save the Tsar

    Choir: Soglasie Male Voice Choir of St. Petersburg. Conductor: Alexander Govorov.
    • IMP.

  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial - Coronation March

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • Gloria / Te Deum / Fa莽ade Suites (City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra).
    • EMI.
    • 015.

  • Fernando Sor

    O Crux, ave spes unica

    Choir: Coro Cervantes. Director: Carlos Fernandez Aransay.
    • GUILD.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Rhapsody in A flat major, Op 45 No 3

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Nikolai Tcherepnin

    Chimes and Clock Dance (Le pavillon d'Armide)

    Orchestra: St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Viktor Fedotov.
    • OLYMPIA.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    L'Egyptienne (Nouvelles suites de pi猫ces de clavecin)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • AVIE.

  • John Foulds

    April- England

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • WARNER APEX.

  • Robert Schumann

    Tragodie, Op.64 No.3

    Singer: Brigitte Fassbaender. Performer: Irwin Gage.
    • DG.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Notturno (String Quartet No.2)

    Performer: Borodin Quartet.
    • TELDEC.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Concerto per l'orchestra di Dresda (S.213) in G major ..., [complete]

    Conductor: Reinhard Goebel. Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln.
    • Johann David Heinichen Dresden Concerti Musica Antiqua Koln Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 20.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI:40

    Performer: Ekaterina Dershavina.
    • PROFIL.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Con l'ali di costanza (Ariodante)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Steve Reich

    Europe, During the War (Different Trains)

    Performer: Vincent Carver. Conductor: Kevin Griffiths. Ensemble: London Steve Reich Ensemble.
    • EMI.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    H盲nsel und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • German Operetta Overtures: Academy of St Martin in the Fields/Marriner.
    • Philips.
    • 5.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in G, D.887

    Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
    • EMI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances Nos 20 and 21 orch Dvorak

    Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • DECCA.

Who am I?

I am the composer Alexander Borodin.

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