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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff; Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 5 in F, Op 76.

Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope. Following in the footsteps of her relation Anthony Trollope, the prolific Victorian novelist famous for the Barchester Chronicles, the Palliser sequence and 'The Way We Live Now', Joanna has published a series of best-selling novels chronicling aspects of contemporary British life, including 'The Choir', 'A Village Affair', 'The Rector's Wife' and 'Other People's Children', all of which have been made into TV series. Her latest novels are 'The Other Family' (2010) and 'Daughters-in-Law' (2011). The popularity of her novels among middle-class readers has led to them being dubbed 'Aga-sagas'. She has also published several historical novels under the nom-de-plume Caroline Harvey, and a study of women in the British Empire, 'Britannia's Daughters'. She was born in the Cotswolds, and divides her time between her homes in Gloucestershire and London. In 2012 she chaired the Orange Prize for Fiction.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Opera overtures conducted by Albert Wolff and the Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performance by the Artists of the Week, the Guarneri Quartet.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the best-selling novelist Joanna Trollope.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Dvorak
Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Karel Sejna (conductor)
SUPRAPHON 1917-2.

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Variations du Miroir (Faust 鈥� ballet music)聽

    Performers: Orchestre De L'Op茅ra National De Paris, Georges Pretre (conductor)

    • EMI CDS 747493 8.

  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • 贬茅谤辞濒诲

      Zampa: Overture

      Performers: Paris Conservatoire Concerts Society Orchestra, Albert Wolff (conductor)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 1308.

  • 9.12:

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Oboe Concerto

      Performers: Neil Black (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • DG ELOQUENCE 442 8333.

  • 9.39:

    • Alexander Borodin

      In the steppes of central Asia

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Cluytens.

      Performers: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

      • DECCA 456 632-2.

  • 9.48: Artists of the Week - Guarneri Quartet

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      String Quintet No. 3 in E flat major, Op. 97

      Performers: Guarneri Quartet with Walter Trampler (viola)

      • RCA 92886.

  • 10.30: Joanna Trollope's Choices

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Romeo and Juliet, Op.64 (Act 1 Sc 2) Dance of The Knights

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Pr茅vin (conductor)

      • EMI CDS 7490128.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor:聽Et incarnatus est

    Performers: Sylvia McNair (soprano), English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 422 736-2.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      Symphony No. 5 in F major, Op. 76

      Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Sejna (conductor)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 1917-2.

  • 11.33am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Partita No.1 in B flat, BWV825

      Performers: Ivo Janssen (piano)

      • VOID 0098.

Broadcast

  • Mon 30 Jul 2012 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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