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Friday - Rob Cowan with Gareth Malone

With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos, with Ensemble Marsyas; Brainteaser: Only Connect; Rob's Essential Choice: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is the charismatic broadcaster and choirmaster Gareth Malone. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Only Connect.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos - Ensemble Marsyas, LINN. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the charismatic broadcaster and choirmaster, Gareth Malone. Ahead of his appearance in one of the highlights of this year's Proms season, the War Horse Prom, Gareth will be talking to Rob about his passion for choral music. He is best known for his television appearances in programmes about singing and introducing choral music to new participants, including the BAFTA-winning series, The Choir. He has also worked for the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's, where he ran their youth choir and community choir, and later became involved with The Knight Crew, a youth opera performed at Glyndebourne and filmed for the 91热爆 television series Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne. More recently he formed the Military Wives Choir, releasing records that reached No. 1 in the UK singles and albums charts, and he now directs the Gareth Malone Voices. Gareth was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.6
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
John Barbirolli (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Only Connect

    Conductor: anon.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No.6

    Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra.
    • Orfeo.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Le Rouet d'Omphale

    Conductor: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture for 3 oboes, bassoon, 2 violins, viola and basso continuo TWV55

    Ensemble: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Quartet in F major

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Farewell to Arms, Op. 9

    Conductor: David Hill. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Singer: James Gilchrist.
    • Naxos.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Die Feuersbrunst (Overture)

    Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.
  • Robert Farnon

    Captain Horatio Hornblower: Suite

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra.
    • Dutton.
  • Richard Rodgers

    Carousel: 鈥楥arousel Waltz鈥

    Conductor: John Wilson. Orchestra: John Wilson Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    6 Songs (Op.34), no.2; Auf Flugeln des Gesanges

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet. Music Arranger: Paul Cassidy.
    • Petits-Fours, Favourite Encores: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Organ Sonata No. 2 in C minor

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Decca.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Vingt regards sure l鈥檈nfant Jesus: Regard du Pere

    Performer: Yvonne Loriod.
    • Apex.
  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo capriccioso

    Performer: Ofra Harnoy. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • RCA.
  • Regino S谩inz de la Maza

    Zapateado

    Performer: Sharon Isbin.
    • Virgin.

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  • Fri 1 Aug 2014 09:00

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