Tuesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Includes Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: pianist Murray Perahia; Rob's Essential Choice: Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat, K449.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Irving and Gamley present a Musical Merry-Go-Round and Famous Evergreens
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artists of the Week, the pianist Murray Perahia.
10.30am
Rob's guest in National Gardening Week is Alys Fowler. Alys has been a gardener since her teens, and after leaving school trained with the Royal Horticultural Society, the Royal Botanic Gardens Kew and the New York Botanical Gardens. She later worked as a journalist on Horticulture Week and Landscape Review and joined 91热爆 TV's Gardeners' World team first as a horticultural researcher and later as Head Gardener at the programme's Berryfields garden. She has also presented on Hampton Court Flower Show. Her books include The Thrifty Gardener, The Edible Garden and The Thrifty Forager.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Mozart: Piano Concerto in E flat, K.449
Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
Bath Festival Orchestra
Yehudi Menuhin (conductor).
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Henry Purcell
Hornpipe in D minor (The Fairy Queen, Z629)
Performers: Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (director)
- ARCHIV 479 0077.
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9.02am
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J.C. Bach
Symphony in G minor, Op. 6 No. 6
Performers: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)
- NEWTON CLASSICS 8802065.
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9.11: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Debussy arr. Caplet
Clair de lune (Suite bergamasque)
Performers: The Sinfonia of London, Robert Irving (conductor)
- VOCALION CDLK4181.
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9.16am
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento for quartet or orchestra in D major, K.136, aka 'Salzburg Symphony No. 1'
Performers: Hagen Quartet
- DG 431 645-2.
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9.30am
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Today's Brainteaser
Critics' Corner
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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9.31: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Etudes, Op. 25 Nos. 6-10
Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)
- SONY 88697 64823-2.
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9.48am
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Coriolan Overture, Op. 62
Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
- TELDEC 0630 13140-2.
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9.57am
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Gustav Mahler
Nun she' ich wohl, warum so dunkle Flammen (Kindertotenlieder)
Performers: Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)
- EMI CDC747793-2.
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10.04am: Artist of the Week - Murray Perahia
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Sonata in E major, Op. 6
Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)
- SONY 88697 00818-2.
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10.30: Alys Fowler's Choices
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude; Allemande (Cello Suite No. 1 in G major, BWV 1007)
Performers: Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
- SONY CLASSICAL S2K 63203.
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10.43am
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Olivier Messiaen
Louange 脿 l'茅ternit茅 de Jesus (Quartet for the end of time)
Performers: Jian Wang (cello), Myung-Whun Chung (piano)
- DG 469 052-2.
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10.57am
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Anon. arr. Morini
Ballo de li Sante
Performers: Instrumental band directed by Guido Morini
- ALPHA 532.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in E flat major, K.449
Performers: Hephzibah Menuhin (piano), Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)
- EMI SPCD1944.
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11.23am
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Alfred Schnittke
Suite in Old Style
Performers: Daniel Shafran (cello), Anton Ginzburg (piano)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93096.
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11.34am
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No.3 in D major, D200
Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
- AUDITE 92.542.
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