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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Frederick Fennell - Fabulous Marches for Orchestra; Artists of the Week: Chamber Orchestra of Europe; Beethoven: Missa solemnis (excerpts).

with Rob Cowan, and his guest, actor Simon Russell Beale.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Frederick Fennell - Fabulous Marches for Orchestra.
Eastman-Rochester Pops and Eastman Wind Ensemble, Frederick Fennell (director). MERCURY 434 394-2

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser from one of our listeners, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.

10.30am
Rob's guest this New Year week is the actor Simon Russell Beale, whose many accolades include being described as "the greatest stage actor of his generation" by The Independent. His recent stage roles include Leontes in The Winter's Tale and Lopakhin in The Cherry Orchard. In 2010 he played Sir Harcourt Courtly in London Assurance at the National Theatre, and in 2011 he made his debut with The Royal Ballet in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.

Simon has also worked in television, most recently as 91热爆 Secretary, William Towers, in the final series of 91热爆1's spy drama, Spooks. In 2008 he made his debut as a television presenter, fronting the 91热爆 Four series Sacred Music with Harry Christophers and The Sixteen, with a second series broadcast in 2010. Recent radio appearances include the character of George Smiley in the 91热爆 Radio 4 adaptations of John Le Carr茅 novels.

Earlier this year Simon appeared as the title role in Timon of Athens at the Royal National Theatre, which was broadcast to cinemas around the world. He will star in a revival of Peter Nichols's Privates on Parade at the Noel Coward Theatre until March 2013.

11am
Beethoven: Missa solemnis (excerpt: Credo; Sanctus; Benedictus; Agnus Dei)
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 31 Dec 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Poulenc (arr. Nakariakov)

    Eiffel Tower Polka

    Performers: Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Maria Meerovitch (piano)

    • TELDEC 2564659589.
  • 9.02: Artists of the Week - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    • Gioachino Rossini

      Overture to La scala di seta

      Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 431 653.
  • 9.08: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • William Walton

      Orb and Sceptre

      Performers: Eastman-Rochester 'Pops' Orchestra, Frederick Fennell (conductor)

      • MERCURY 434 394-2.
  • Debussy (arr. Paul Cassidy)

    R锚verie for string quartet

    Performers: Brodsky Quartet

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10717.
  • Wolf

    Italian Serenade in G for small orchestra

    Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (solo viola: Nardo Poy)

    • DG 431 680-2.
  • 9.30: Today's Brainteaser

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto in G for strings and continuo, RV151 ('Concerto alla rustica')

      Performers: I Musici

      • PHILIPS 411 035-2.
  • Jarom铆r Weinberger

    Polka and Fugue from Schwanda the Bagpiper

    Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

    • RCA 09026 62587 2.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Nocturne no.6 in D flat major Op.63

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

    Performers: Jean Doyen (piano)

    • ERATO 4509-96220-2.
  • Zelenka

    Alma Redemptoris Mater, ZWV 126

    Performers: Alex Potter (countertenor), Capriccio Baroque Orchestra, Dominik Kiefer (leader / director)

    • PAN PC 10274.
  • 10.05: Artists of the Week - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony No. 3 in D, D.200

      Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 423 653-2.
  • 10.30: Simon Russell Beale's Choices

    • William James Kirkpatrick

      Away in a Manger

      Performers: The King's SIngers

      • SIGNUM SIGCD502.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 21 in C, K.467 ('Elvira Madigan'): 2nd movement

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano), English Chamber Orchestra

    • SONY 88697757852.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Wir setzen uns mit Tr盲nen nieder' (In tears of grief), from The St Matthew Passion, BWV 2

    Performers: St Thomas Choir of Leipzig, T枚lz Boys' Choir, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2194.
  • 11am: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Missa Solemnis (Kyrie, Credo, Agnus Dei)

      Performers: Heather Harper (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzosoprano), Robert Tear (tenor), Hans Sotin (bass), New Philharmonia Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo-Maria Giulini (conductor)

      • EMI 7 62693 2.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Navarra, from Iberia, Book 4

    Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

    • SONY 88765414972-55.

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