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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Francine Stock

With Rob Cowan. Five Reasons to Love Glenn Gould; Mystery Object; Artist of the Week: Lorin Maazel; Rob's Essential Choice: L Couperin: Prelude a l'imitation de Mr Froberger.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - Glenn Gould'. Throughout the week Rob makes the case for the polarising pianist Glenn Gould in music by Byrd, Beethoven, Mozart, Brahms and Bach.

9.30am
Mystery Object
Take part in our daily challenge and identify what is being described.

10am
The radio and TV presenter and novelist Francine Stock joins Rob in the studio. Francine was one of the original presenters of 91热爆 Radio 4's Front Row and later moved to The Film Programme, as well as writing about film for Prospect magazine. On television she has presented Newsnight, The Money Programme and The Antiques Show, and she is also the regular host of the BAFTA Life in Pictures strand. As a novelist, she has published two works of fiction: A Foreign Country (shortlisted for the Whitbread First Novel award) and Man-Made Fibre. Francine shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.

10.30am
Artist of the Week
Conductor Lorin Maazel in music by Mendelssohn, Scriabin, Respighi, Schubert and Prokofiev.

11am
This week's Essential Choices feature the genre of the Prelude.
Louis Couperin
Pr茅lude 脿 l'imitation de Mr. Froberger
Richard Egarr (harpsichord).

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Wed 5 Nov 2014 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    'L'evapor茅e', from Troisi猫me Livre de pi猫ces de clavecin, Ordre 15

    Performer: Olivier Baumont.
    • WARNER.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    La gazza ladra 鈥� Overture

    Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
    • DECCA.

  • 5 Reason to Love Glenn Gould

    • William Byrd

      Sellinger's Round

      Performer: Glenn Gould.
      • SONY.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Concertino for Clarinet

    Conductor: Neville Marriner. Performer: Andrew Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata in G, K303

    Performer: Artur Balsam. Performer: Oscar Shumsky.
    • NIMBUS RECORDS.

  • Hugo Wolf

    'Die Feuerreiter'

    Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano. Choir: Berlin Radio Choir.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D, K119

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich.
    • DG.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Fireworks, Op.4

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • BMG.

  • Francine Stock's Choice No. 1

    • Emmanuel Chabrier

      10 Pi猫ces pittoresques (no.10)

      Performer: Kathryn Stott.
      • UNICORN-KANCHANA.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Idylle (10 Pi猫ces pittoresques)

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • UNICORN-KANCHANA.

  • Francine Stock's Choice No. 2

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Cello Sonata, Op.5 No. 2 in G Minor: 2nd movement

      Performer: Pierre Fournier. Performer: Friedrich Gulda.
      • DG.

  • Fontana

    Sonata No. 6 per canto solo

    Performer: William Dongois. Performer: Le Concert Bris茅.
    • ACCENT.

  • Artist of the Week

    • Ottorino Respighi

      Feste Romane

      Conductor: Lorin Maazel. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.
      • DECCA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    My love she's but a lassie yet Hob. XXXIa: 194

    Performer: Werner G眉ra. Performer: Christoph Berner.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Essential Choice

    • Louis Couperin

      Pr茅lude 脿 l'imitation de Mr Froberger

      Performer: Richard Egarr.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Mieczyslaw Weinberg

    Concerto for trumpet and orchestra in B flat, Op.94

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Algis Zhiuraitis. Performer: Timofei Dokshizer.
    • RUSSIAN DISC.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in G minor, Op. 20 No. 3

    Ensemble: Doric String Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

Musical Challenge - Mystery Object

The clues:

I tend to sound sforzando and have explosive tendencies.听
Stravinsky鈥檚 musical description of me lead to his first commission from Sergei Diaghilev.
Handel wrote a famous wind band suite to accompany me.

听
The answer:

Firework

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