Thursday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Szymon Goldberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Artist of the Week: Andres Segovia; Writer and critic Paul Bailey.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Szymon Goldberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra RETROSPECTIVE 93407
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, guitarist, Andres Segovia.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the writer and critic Paul Bailey, who won a scholarship to The Central School of Speech and Drama, and began his career as an actor. In 1967 he became a freelance writer. He was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 1974 and the George Orwell Prize for his essay 'The Limitations of Despair' in 1978. His novels, 'Peter Smart's Confessions' (1977) and 'Gabriel's Lament' (1986), were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he has written plays for radio and TV and his non-fiction writings include biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 10 in F minor
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
- MERCURY 434 326-2.
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9.02am [0.02]: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concert Rondo in A major, K.386
Performers: Ingrid Haebler (piano), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Szymon Goldberg (conductor)
- RETROSPECTIVE 93407.
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9.11am [0.11]
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Sullivan
Overture di Ballo
Performers: New Symphony Orchestra of London, Adrian Boult (conductor)
- CHESKY RECORDS CD 53.
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9.22am [0.22]
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George Frideric Handel
Alcina: overture
Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter
- DG 457 903-2.
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9.30am [0.30]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - ANDRES SEGOVIA
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Aguado
Eight Lessons for the Guitar: Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 8
Performers: Andr茅s Segovia (guitar)
- DG 471 430-2.
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9.39am [0.39]
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Lyadov
Baba Yaga
Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky (conductor)
- SCRIBENDUM SC 031.
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9.43am [0.43]
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Gustav Holst
Fugal Concerto for flute, oboe and strings, Op. 40 No. 2
Performers: William Bennett (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst (conductor)
- LYRITA SRCD.223.
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9.51am [0.51]
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Francesca da Rimini
Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)
- DG 453 988-2.
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10.17am [1.17]
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue)
Performers: Lionel Rogg (organ)
- EMI 381766-2.
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10.23am [1.23]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - ANDRES SEGOVIA
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
Prelude No. 3 in A minor
Performers: Andr茅s Segovia (guitar)
- DG 471 697-2.
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10.30am [1.30] PAUL BAILEY'S CHOICE
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Voi, che sapete" (Marriage of Figaro, Act 2)
Performers: Cherubino: Sena Jurinac (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
- EMI CMS 567068-2.
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10.39am [1.39] PAUL BAILEY'S CHOICE
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Porter
After you - Who?
Performers: Fred Astaire (vocal) with Orchestra
- CONIFER TQ134.
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10.46am [1.46] PAUL BAILEY'S CHOICE
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Franz Schubert
Des Baches Wiegenlied (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin, D.795)
Performers: Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Hubert Giesen (piano)
- DG 423 956-2.
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10.53am [1.53]
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Claude Debussy
Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)
Performers: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN10421.
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