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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Szymon Goldberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra; Artist of the Week: Andres Segovia; Writer and critic Paul Bailey.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Szymon Goldberg and the Netherlands Chamber Orchestra RETROSPECTIVE 93407

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, guitarist, Andres Segovia.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest on Essential Classics this week is the writer and critic Paul Bailey, who won a scholarship to The Central School of Speech and Drama, and began his career as an actor. In 1967 he became a freelance writer. He was awarded the E.M. Forster Award in 1974 and the George Orwell Prize for his essay 'The Limitations of Despair' in 1978. His novels, 'Peter Smart's Confessions' (1977) and 'Gabriel's Lament' (1986), were both shortlisted for the Booker Prize, he has written plays for radio and TV and his non-fiction writings include biographies of Cynthia Payne and Quentin Crisp.

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Thu 30 Aug 201209:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No. 10 in F minor

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 326-2.

  • 9.02am [0.02]: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Concert Rondo in A major, K.386

      Performers: Ingrid Haebler (piano), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Szymon Goldberg (conductor)

      • RETROSPECTIVE 93407.

  • 9.11am [0.11]

    • Sullivan

      Overture di Ballo

      Performers: New Symphony Orchestra of London, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • CHESKY RECORDS CD 53.

  • 9.22am [0.22]

    • George Frideric Handel

      Alcina: overture

      Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Richter

      • DG 457 903-2.

  • 9.30am [0.30]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - ANDRES SEGOVIA

    • Aguado

      Eight Lessons for the Guitar: Nos. 1, 2, 4 and 8

      Performers: Andrés Segovia (guitar)

      • DG 471 430-2.

  • 9.39am [0.39]

    • Lyadov

      Baba Yaga

      Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Yevgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

      • SCRIBENDUM SC 031.

  • 9.43am [0.43]

    • Gustav Holst

      Fugal Concerto for flute, oboe and strings, Op. 40 No. 2

      Performers: William Bennett (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst (conductor)

      • LYRITA SRCD.223.

  • 9.51am [0.51]

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Francesca da Rimini

      Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • DG 453 988-2.

  • 10.17am [1.17]

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Contrapunctus 9 (Art of Fugue)

      Performers: Lionel Rogg (organ)

      • EMI 381766-2.

  • 10.23am [1.23]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - ANDRES SEGOVIA

    • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

      Prelude No. 3 in A minor

      Performers: Andrés Segovia (guitar)

      • DG 471 697-2.

  • 10.30am [1.30] PAUL BAILEY'S CHOICE

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      "Voi, che sapete" (Marriage of Figaro, Act 2)

      Performers: Cherubino: Sena Jurinac (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • EMI CMS 567068-2.

  • 10.39am [1.39] PAUL BAILEY'S CHOICE

    • Porter

      After you - Who?

      Performers: Fred Astaire (vocal) with Orchestra

      • CONIFER TQ134.

  • 10.46am [1.46] PAUL BAILEY'S CHOICE

    • Franz Schubert

      Des Baches Wiegenlied (Die schöne Müllerin, D.795)

      Performers: Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Hubert Giesen (piano)

      • DG 423 956-2.

  • 10.53am [1.53]

    • Claude Debussy

      Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)

      Performers: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN10421.

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Aug 201209:00
    BBC Radio 3