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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Stravinsky: The Firebird. Clifford Curzon in Schubert: Moments Musicaux (selection) and Mozart: Piano Concerto No 4. Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Symphony No 3.

9am
A selection of must-hear music including excerpts from Stravinsky's The Firebird from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording by Les Siecles.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and a recording of the Artist of the Week, the pianist Clifford Curzon, performing Schubert (Moments Musicaux, D780 - selection) and Mozart (Piano Concerto No.24, K491).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the psychological illusionist Derren Brown. Today he introduces a piece he would like to conduct and Rob Cowan acts as a personal shopper, playing a piece he hopes Derren will enjoy.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Dvorak
Symphony No.3
Prague Symphony Orchestra
Vaclav Smetacek (conductor)
SUPRAPHON SU 39682.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 4 Nov 201109:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Zelenka

    Ouverture a 7 concertanti in F – Folie

    Performers: Collegium 1704, Vaclav Luks (harpsichord)

    • SUPRAPHON SU38582.

  • Heinichen

    Concerto in G (Siebel 214)

    Performers: Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 4748922.

  • Kreisler arr. Rachmaninov

    Liebesfreud; Liebesleid

    Performers: Sergei Rachmaninov (piano)

    • RCA 88697489712.

  • ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Igor Stravinsky

      The Firebird (1er Tableau - Apparation de l'oiseau du feu; Danse de la suite de katchei; D

      Performers: Les Siecles, Francois-Xavier Roth (conductor)

      • MUSICALES ACTES SUD ASM06.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK

    • Franz Schubert

      Moments Musicaux D780 Nos.1, 5 & 6

      Performers: Clifford Curzon (piano)

      • DECCA 4756786.

  • Claude Debussy

    Danse: Tarantelle styrienne (orch. Ravel)

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 4753132.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Forelle

    Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto No.24 K491

      Performers: Clifford Curzon (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz (conductor)

      • DECCA 4304972.

  • Edward Elgar

    Dream of Gerontius – end of Part II

    Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), Ambrosian Singers, Sheffield Philharmonic Choir , Halle Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI 5735792.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Actus Tragicus BWV106 – Sonatina

    Performers: Munich Bach Orchestra, Karl Richter (conductor)

    • DG 46300824.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique –'March to the Scaffold'

    Performers: Francois-Rene Duchable (piano)

    • EMI 5723562.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Symphony No.3

    Performers: Prague Symphony Orchestra, Vaclav Smetacek (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON 3968.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Spring Song Op.16

    Performers: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • DG 45765422.

Broadcast

  • Fri 4 Nov 201109:00
    BBC Radio 3