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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier (with Andras Schiff: piano); Artist of the Week: Jascha Heifetz; Rob's Essential Choice: Hunnenschlacht, S105.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach: Well-Tempered Clavier, Andr谩s Schiff (piano), ECM 476 4827.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Jascha Heifetz.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics is the English actor and songwriter Clive Swift. He is best known for his role as Richard Bucket in the British television series Keeping Up Appearances, the long-suffering husband of Hyacinth. Other notable television roles include that of Roy in the British television series The Old Guys. Further TV appearances include Doctor Black in two of the 91热爆's M.R. James adaptations, The Stalls of Barchester and A Warning to the Curious; the 91热爆 adaptation of The Barchester Chronicles; and he has appeared several times in Doctor Who. He also played Sir Ector, the adoptive father of King Arthur in John Boorman's 1981 film Excalibur, and the Reverend Eustacius Brewer in the 91热爆 1 series Born and Bred (2002-05).

As well as acting, Clive is a keen songwriter. Many of his songs are included in his show, Richard Bucket Overflows: An Audience with Clive Swift (2007); and Clive Swift Entertains, performing his own music and lyrics, which toured the UK in 2009.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Liszt: Hunnenschlacht, S105
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
DG 00289 477 9525.

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Music Played

  • Zelenka

    'Folia', from Ouverture a 7 concertanti in F

    Performers: Camerata Bern, Alexander van Wijnkoop (director)

    • BRILLIANT 93785.

  • Chopin arr. Douglas

    Grand valse brillante in E flat, Op. 18, from Les Sylphides

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Robert Irving (conductor)

    • EMI 9 49834 2.

  • 9.08: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Prelude and Fugue in B, BWV 868, and Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 869, from The Well-

      Performers: Andr谩s Schiff (piano)

      • ECM 476 4827.

  • Henry Purcell

    Behold, now, praise the Lord, Z3

    Performers: Iestyn Davies (counter tenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, John Challenger (organ), St John's Sinfonia, Andrew Nethsingha (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 0790.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Arensky

    Overture to A Dream on the Volga, Op. 16

    Performers: The USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

    • OLYMPIA OCD 167.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    "Ben io t'invenni ... Anch'io dischiuso", from Nabucco, Pt 3

    Performers: Renata Scotto (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)

    • EMI 5 85108 2.

  • Myslivecek

    Octet no.3 in B flat for 2 oboes, 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons

    Performers: Orfeo Wind Ensemble, Carin van Heerden (conductor)

    • CPO 777377-2.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    O Jesu mi dulcissime a 8

    Performers: Ex Cathedra, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67957.

  • 10.07: Artist of the Week - Jascha Heifetz

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Violin Concerto No. 2 in G minor, Op. 63

      Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)

      • SONY 88697761382.

  • 10.30: Clive Swift's Choices

    • Malcolm Lipkin

      From Across La Manche: Overture

      Performers: Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Gavin Sutherland (conductor)

      • NAXOS 8.557753.

  • Clive Swift arr. Stuart Morley

    An Old-fashioned Christmas Card

    Performers: Clive Swift (vocals), Ensemble

    • CSSM 09001.

  • Fritz Kreisler

    String Quartet: Allegro vivo con spirito

    Performers: Kreisler String Quartet

    • EMI 2 65042 2.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Children's Album, op.39 - Valse

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • REGIS RRC 1143 tk 13.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Franz Liszt

      Hunnenschlacht, S105

      Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • SONY 00289 477 9525.

  • George Frideric Handel

    'Cara pianta', from Apollo e Dafne

    Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Berlin Philharmonic, Gunther Weissenborn (conductor)

    • DG 463 519-2.

  • C茅sar Franck

    Piano Quintet in F minor

    Performers: Clifford Curzon (piano), Vienna Philharmonic Quartet: Willi Boskovsky (violin 1), Otto Strasser (violin 2), Rudolf Streng (viola), Emanuel Brabec (cello)

    • DECCA 478 4389.

  • Dinicu

    Hora Staccato

    Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Emanuel Bay (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.112072.

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  • Fri 23 Nov 2012 09:00
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