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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Constantin Silvestri - The Complete EMI Recordings; Artist of the Week; Rob's Essential Choice: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 8.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Constantin Silvestri - The Complete EMI Recordings: EMI ICON 7 23347 2.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.

10.30am
Essential Classics guests in the month-long Baroque Spring season include baroque music enthusiasts, and this week Rob Cowan is joined by renowned jeweller, Kevin Coates. Kevin is an award-winning independent artist-goldsmith who creates one-off jewels, larger ceremonial silver items, medals, and small sculpture. He is known for his extraordinary technical virtuosity and symbolic imagery, which is drawn from mythology, folklore, music and mathematics. His work appears in private and public collections worldwide, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Museums of Scotland, the British Museum, the Silver Trust for No. 10 Downing Street, and the Goldsmiths' Company, London. He is also an accomplished instrumentalist, specialising in Baroque and early Classical music, and formed the Duo Vinaccia with his wife, Nel Romano.

11am: Rob?s Essential Choice

Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 8
Hall茅 Orchestra
Mark Elder (conductor)
Halle CDHLL7533.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 14 Mar 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Dohnanyi

    Widmung (Winterreigen, Op. 13)

    Performers: Martin Roscoe (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67871.
  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Edward Elgar

      In the South (Alassio)

      Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Cedric Morgan (viola), Constatin Silvestri (conductor)

      • EMI 723347 2.
  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    • Giovanni Gabrieli

      Canzon 脿 4

      Performers: Concentus Musicus, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

      • AMADEO 423 418-2.
  • Edward Elgar

    Scenes from 'The Bavarian Highlands', Op. 27: The Dance; False Love

    Performers: Cambridge University Chamber Choir, Iain Farrington (piano), Christopher Robinson (director)

    • NAXOS 8.570541.
  • Paganini arr. Kreisler

    I Palpiti, Op. 13

    Performers: Maxim Vengerov (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)

    • TELDEC 9031 77351-2.
  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Nikolaus Harnoncourt

    • Zelenka

      Ouverture 脿 7 concertanti

      Performers: Concentus musicus of Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

      • TELDEC 8.42415.
  • 10.30: Kevin Coates' Choices

    • Pablo de Sarasate

      Zapateado

      Performers: Pablo de Sarasate (violin), Camille Decreus (piano)

      • OPAL CD 9851.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra, Op. 33

    Performers: David & Igor Oistrakh (violins), Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Franz Konwitchny (conductor)

    • DG 463 616-2.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Symphony No. 8 in D minor

      Performers: Hall茅 Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor)

      • HALL脡 CD HLL 7533.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Widmung (Winterreigen, Op. 13)

  • Edward Elgar

    In the South (Alassio)

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon a 4

  • Edward Elgar

    The Bavarian Highlands, Op. 27: The Dance; False Love

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Che faro senza Euridice (Orfeo ed Euridice)

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • Kathleen Ferrier: Bach, Gluck, Handel.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Ouverture a 7 concertanti

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Navarra

  • anon.

    anon. - Rob's Personal Shopper Piece for Kevin Coates

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 8 in D minor

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  • Thu 14 Mar 2013 09:00

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