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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Leonid Kogan in Italian and Spanish music; Artist of the Week: conductor Paavo Berglund; Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No 8.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Leonid Kogan plays Italian and Spanish Music, MELODIYA MEL CD 1001 2920

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

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is wine critic and journalist Jancis Robinson. Jancis started her wine writing career in 1975, when she became assistant editor for the trade magazine Wine & Spirit. In 1984 she became the first person outside the wine trade to become a Master of Wine. She also served as British Airways' wine consultant, supervised the BA Concorde cellar luxury selection, and provides advice for the Queen's wine cellar. Her book, Jancis Robinson's Wine Course, written to accompany her 91热爆 2 series, has been published in several editions. She was made an OBE in 2003, and her many accolades include multiple Glenfiddich Awards and Andr茅 Simon Memorial Awards. As a wine writer she edited The Oxford Companion to Wine, and The World Atlas of Wine, which she co-authored with Hugh Johnson, is one of the world's leading wine atlases. She currently writes for her own website, as well as a weekly column for the Financial Times.

11am
Prokofiev: Piano Sonata No. 8
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 17 Dec 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • 9am: Artist of the Week - Paavo Berglund

    • Jarnefelt

      Praeludium

      Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

      • EMI 574731-2.
  • 9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Niccol貌 Paganini

      Sonatina in A

      Performers: Leonid Kogan (violin), Alexander Ivanov-Kramskoi (guitar)

      • MELODIYA MEL CD 1001292.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 64 in A

    Performers: SWF Symphony Orchestra Baden-Baden , Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

    • HANSSLER PROFIL PH10050.
  • Hans Christian Lumbye

    Champagne Galop

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georges Pretres (conductor)

    • DECCA 398402.
  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Songs of Songs No. 1-3: Osculetur me osculo oris sui; Trahe me post te; Nigra sum sed Form

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16105.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    Die Rheinnixen - Overture

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georges Pretres (conductor)

    • DECCA 398402.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Waltz from 'Masquerade' and Sabre Dance from 'Gayaneh'

    Performers: Cyprein Katsaris (piano)

    • PIANO RARITIES P21045.
  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Paavo Berglund

    • Jean Sibelius

      Symphony No. 3 in C, Op. 52

      Performers: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

      • EMI 574485-2.
  • 10.30: Jancis Robinson's Choices

    • Edward Elgar

      Where Corals Lie (Sea Pictures)

      Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

      • EMI CMS 763185-2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in B flat, D960 (4th movement, Allegro ma non troppo)

    Performers: Imogen Cooper (piano)

    • AVIE AV2158.
  • 11am:

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Piano Sonata No. 8

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

  • Bruckner

    • Zwei Totenlieder - O ihr die ihr heut mit mir zum Grabe geht

      Choir of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson (conductor)

      Performers: Delphian Dcd34071

  • Tchaikovsky

    • Suite for Orchestra No.4 in G Op.61 'Mozartiana'

      New Philharmonic Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

      Performers: Philips 4784788

Broadcast

  • Mon 17 Dec 2012 09:00

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