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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: violinist David Oistrakh; Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 6.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queff茅lec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Sibelius: Symphony no 6
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K47622.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 5 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 6

  • George Frideric Handel

    Prelude 鈥 The Alchymist

    Performers: The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (director)

    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 455 709 2.
  • 9.02 [00鈥02鈥漖: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in D major, L.465 K.96

      Performers: Anne Queff茅lec (piano)

      • APEX 0927 44353 2.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Overture: Der Freisch眉tz

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 769 572 2.
  • 9.17 [00鈥17鈥漖:

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto in F major, RV 293 'Autumn'

      Performers: Enrico Onofri (violin), Il Giardino Armonico, Giovanni Antonini (director)

      • TELDEC 4509 908502.
  • 9.32 [00鈥32鈥漖:

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Overture 'The Ruins of Athens' Op. 113

      Performers: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 438706 2.
  • 9.39 [00鈥39鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Tchaikovsky trans. Bezekirsky

      Valse-scherzo Op. 34

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)

      • EMI 562 914 2.
  • 9.47 [00鈥47鈥漖:

    • Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answers

      The Year in Question

      Performers: Details of the music related to today鈥檚 brainteaser will appear at the bottom this page at 12pm.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Grande valse brillante op 18

    Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    • DECCA 414 600 2.
  • 9.53 [00鈥53鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Violin Concerto No. 1 in A minor, Op. 99

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), New York Philharmonic, Dimitri Mitropoulos (conductor)

      • SONY MHK 63327 聽.
  • 10.30 [01鈥30鈥漖: Miranda Krestovnikoff's Choices

    • Ian Stephens

      The Ecchoing Green

      Performers: The Elysian Singers of London, Sam Laughton (conductor)

      • www.elysiansingers.com.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite in D minor, BWV 1008

    Performers: Yo Yo Ma (cello)

    • SONY CLASSICAL S2K63203.
  • 11.00 [02鈥00鈥漖: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Aaron Copland

      Quiet City

      Performers: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

      • DECCA 448 261 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Trio No. 3 in E major, K.542

    Performers: Trio Fontenay

    • TELDEC 2292 46439 2.
  • 11.30 [02鈥30鈥漖

    • Jean Sibelius

      Symphony No. 6

      Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SM2K47622.

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  • Wed 5 Sep 2012 09:00

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