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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: David Oistrakh; Rob's Essential Choice: Schubert, orch Koechlin: Wanderer Fantasy.

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

Schubert orch. Koechlin: Wanderer Fantasy, D760
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Florian Hoelscher (piano)
Heinz Holliger (conductor)
HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 7 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Playford

    Wallom Green

    Performers: Les Witches

    • ALPHA 502.
  • 9.02 [00鈥02鈥漖: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in B minor, L.449 K.27

      Performers: Anne Queff茅lec (piano)

      • APEX 0927 44353 2.
  • 9.07 [00'07]

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Divertimento in B flat K137

      Performers: Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov (conductor)

      • RCA RD60066.
  • Chabrier orch. Koechlin

    Bour茅e fantasque (1891, orch. 1924)

    Performers: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra 鈥 SWR, Heinz Holliger (conductor)

    • HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.
  • 9.31 [00鈥31鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Kodaly arr. Feighin

      Three Hungarian Folk Dances (from Kallo)

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

      • EMI 562 914 2.
  • Farkas

    Ancient Hungarian Dances

    Performers: Fr枚sunda Wind Quintet

    • BIS BISCD 136.
  • 9.49 [00鈥49鈥漖:

    • Today鈥檚 Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Sleeping Beauty -excerpts from Act 3

    Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • DG 457 636 2.
  • 10.02 [10鈥02鈥漖:

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Ave Maria Op. 23 No. 2

      Performers: La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Philippe Herreweghe (director)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HM901272.
  • 10.10 [01鈥10鈥漖: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23

      Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Lev Oborin (piano)

      • PHILIPS 412 570 2.
  • 10.30 [01鈥30鈥漖: Miranda Krestovnikoff's Choices

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      Finale of Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

      • 91热爆 LEGENDS 91热爆L 4110 2.
  • Arvo P盲rt

    Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten

    Performers: Stuttgart State Orchestra, Dennis Russel Davies (conductor)

    • ECM 817 764-2 聽.
  • Franz Liszt

    Die drei Zigeuner S320

    Performers: Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67934.
  • 11.00 [02鈥00鈥漖: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Schubert orch. Koechlin

      Wanderer Fantasy D.760

      Performers: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra 鈥 SWR, Florian Hoelscher (piano), Heinz Holliger (conductor)

      • HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Polka de W.R.

    Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

    • ICAC 5020.
  • 11.27 [02鈥27鈥漖:

    • Maurice Ravel

      Ma M猫re l'Oye

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 420869 2.

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