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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Artist of the Week: Bernard Haitink; Novelist Salley Vickers's favourite pieces of classical music; Rob's Essential Choice: Chopin: Piano Concerto No 1.

A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Vienna - Fritz Reiner conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in waltzes. RCA 09026 68160-2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Bernard Haitink.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest for the week is novelist Salley Vickers, whose books explore the impact of spiritual values on contemporary lives. Salley introduces her essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Chopin
Piano Concerto No.1, Op.11
Eric Heidsieck (piano)
Orchestra of the Colonne Concerts Association
Pierre Dervaux (conductor)
EMI 5 85222 2.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 15 May 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Organ Sonata in B flat K.68

    Performers: Marie-Claire聽Alain (organ), Jean-Fran莽ois Paillard Chamber Orchestra, Jean-Fran莽ois Paillard (conductor)

    • ERATO 5050466-6695-2.
  • Tony Hiller

    Overture to 'Die Jagd' [The Hunt]

    Performers: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • QUERSTAND RECORDS VKJK 0507.
  • 9.15: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Strauss arr. Reiner

      Der Rosenkavalier: Waltzes

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 68160-2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Moravian Duets: I will escape you, Op.29 No.1; If my scythe were whetted, Op.29b No.3; The

    Performers: Genia K眉hmeier (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo-soprano), Christoph Berner (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902081.
  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Bernard Haitink

    • Johannes Brahms

      Tragic Overture, Op. 81

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 442 068-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto No. 13 in F major 'Cuckoo and the Nightingale'

    Performers: Daniel Chorzempa (organ of the Old Catholic church in Haarlem), Concerto Amsterdam, Jaap Schr枚der (conductor)

    • PENTATONE PTC 5186 104.
  • 9.46am

    • Schubert

      Schubert - Schlachtgesang, D.443

      Performers: John Mark Ainsley (tenor), The London Schubert Chorale, Stephen Layton (conductor), Graham Johnson (piano)

  • Franz Schubert

    Das Rosenband, D.280

    Performers: Elly Ameling (soprano), Graham Johnson (piano)

    • HYPERION CDJ33007.
  • 10.09: Artist of the Week - Bernard Haitink

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Storm

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 442 061-2.
  • 10.22: My Own Shakespeare - Jane Glover

    • Quilter

      It was a lover and his lass; The Harebell by a Graveside

      Performers: Amanda Pitt & Joanne Thomas with David Owen Norris (piano)

      • NAXOS 8.557495.
  • 10:30: Salley Vickers' Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quintet in G minor, K.516: I. Allegro

      Performers: Jascha Heifetz & Israel Baker (violins), William Primrose & Virginia Majewski (violas), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)

      • RCA GD87869.
  • 10:44: Salley Vickers' Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      O Jesu Christ, mein's Lebens Licht, BWV 118/231

      Performers: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 463 581-2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Beau Soir

    Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Brooks Smith (piano)

    • RCA 09026 61776-2.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 11

      Performers: Eric Heidsieck (piano), Orchestra of the Colonne Concerts Association, Pierre Dervaux (conductor)

      • EMI 5 85222 2.
  • 11.36am

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Sleeping Beauty, Op.66 (excerpts)

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Anatole Fistoulari (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 442 562-2.

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  • Tue 15 May 2012 09:00

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