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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. 9.30am Artist of the Week: Bernard Haitink. 10.30am Novelist Salley Vickers's favourite classical music. 11.00am Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Coronation Mass.

9am
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

Mozart
Coronation Mass, K.317
Maria Stader (soprano)
Sieglinde Wagner (alto)
Helmut Krebs (tenor)
Josef Greindl (bass)
St Hedwigs Cathedral Choir
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Markevitch (conductor)
DG 437 383-2.

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Thu 17 May 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Karl Goldmark

    Allegro vivace (String Quartet in B major, Op. 8)

    Performers: Klenke Quartet

    • HANSSLER CD 93.077.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Variations concertantes, Op. 17

    Performers: Roel Dieltiens (cello), Frank Braley (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901868.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort, BWV 20: Part II

    Performers: Wilke te Brummelstroete (alto), Paul Agnew (tenor), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 101.

  • 9.20: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Johann Strauss II - Morning Papers, Op. 279

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Bernard Haitink

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Symphony No. 10: Allegro 2nd mvt

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • RCO LIVE RADIO RECORDINGS - BERNARD HAITINK - no CD number.

  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons Op. 2

    Performers: Eric Le Sage (piano)

    • ALPHA 098.

  • 9.50am: Artist of the Week - Bernard Haitink

    • Franz Schubert

      Rosamunde incidental music: Chorus of Shepherds

      Performers: Netherlands Radio Chorus, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 446 574-2.

  • 9.55am: Artist of the Week - Bernard Haitink

    • Johannes Brahms

      Serenade No. 2 in A major, Op. 16

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 442 068-2.

  • Chopin arr. Douglas

    Mazurka, Op.67 No.3

    Performers: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Peter Maag (conductor)

    • DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 3483.

  • 10:30: Salley Vickers' Choices

    • Litolff

      Scherzo (Concerto symphonique No. 4 in D minor, Op. 102)

      Performers: Clifford Curzon (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • DECCA 466 376-2.

  • 10:44am: Salley Vickers' Choices

    • Richard Wagner - Parsifal: Prelude

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

  • Edvard Grieg

    Butterfly (Lyric Pieces, Op.43 No.1)

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • DG 459 671-2.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Coronation Mass, K.317

      Performers: Maria Stader (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (alto), Helmut Krebs (tenor), Josef Greindl (bass), St Hedwigs Cathedral Choir, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Igor Markevitch (conductor)

      • DG 437 383-2.

  • 11.31am

    • Bloch orch. Stak茅vitch

      Nigun (Baal Schem)

      Performers: Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

      • LE CHANT DU MONDE RUS 288 165.

  • 11.43am

    • L茅o Delibes

      La Source (excerpts)

      Performers: Paris Conservatoire Orchestra, Peter Maag (conductor)

      • DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 3483.

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  • Thu 17 May 2012 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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