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Thursday with Rob Cowan - Patricia Routledge, Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik, Bone Piles

Rob Cowan takes us through the morning with the best in classical music, plus we hear from Dame Patricia Routledge.

Essential Classics with Rob Cowan

Rob takes us through the morning with the best in classical music including:

0930 Rob explores potential companion pieces for a well-known piece of music. Today's journey begins with Mozart's serenade Eine kleine Nachtmusik: what would you choose to follow it?

1010 Time Traveller. A quirky slice of cultural history

1050 Actress Dame Patricia Routledge reveals the cultural influences that have shaped and inspired her.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jacques Offenbach

    L'Ile de Tulipatan - Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lille. Conductor: Darrell Ang.
    • Naxos.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major: II. Air

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Kurt Sanderling.
    • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Clarinet Sonata

    Performer: Martin Fr枚st. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G major, K 525, 'Eine kleine Nachtmusik'

    Performer: Gidon Kremer. Ensemble: Kremerata Baltica.
    • Gidon Kremer, Kremerata Baltica: After Mozart.
    • Nonesuch.
    • 6.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    The Beatitudes

    Performer: Andrew Lucas. Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Berliner Messe: Magnificat Antiphons etc: Polyphony: Andrew Lucas/Steven layton.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Three-part inventions for keyboard: No. 1 in C major

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Bach: Two-Part & Three-Part Inventions.
    • Decca.
    • 411 974-2.
    • 16.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Carnival Overture, Op 92

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • Dvor谩k Overtures: In Nature's Realm, Carnival, My Home, Othello, Husitsk谩: Ancer.
    • Supraphon.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz in E flat, Op 18: 'Grande valse brillante'

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Chopin: Waltzes: Stephen Hough.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Luciano Berio

    Ritirata notturna di Madrid [after Boccherini]

    Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Berio: Orchestral transcriptions: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Guiseppe Verdi.
    • Decca.
    • 3.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major, 'Il Gardellino', RV90

    Performer: Maurice Steger. Ensemble: I Barocchisti. Director: Diego Fasolis.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Lied von der Erde: Von der Schonheit

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Bruno Walter.
    • Decca.
  • Peggy Glanville-Hicks

    Etruscan Concerto

    Performer: Caroline Almonte. Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Mills.
    • ABC Classics.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Twelve Variations on Folie d'espagne

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Recuerdos de la Alhambra

    Performer: John Williams.
    • Spanish Guitar Music.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 16.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Jota (La vida breve)

    Performer: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • Falla: Montsalvatge, Sreneata Andaluza: Alicia de Larrocha.
    • BMG.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat major Op.53 'Eroica'

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • Decca.

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  • Thu 26 Oct 2017 09:00

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