Friday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Anne Queffelec in Scarlatti piano sonatas; Artist of the Week: David Oistrakh; Rob's Essential Choice: Schubert, orch Koechlin: Wanderer Fantasy.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Anne Queffélec playing Scarlatti Sonatas. WARNER APEX 0927 44353 2
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist, David Oistrakh.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest is Miranda Krestovnikoff. She studied zoology at Bristol University, and from 1998 has appeared in very popular TV programmes on wildlife conservation and the environment, including The One Show, Coast and Countryfile. A keen musician, she spends a lot of her spare time making music. She plays the flute, bassoon, piano and recorders, and also sings. She currently plays with the New Bristol Sinfonia, and in 1994 she formed her own a cappella choir, Partsong, which she directed for eight years.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schubert orch. Koechlin: Wanderer Fantasy, D760
SWR Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stuttgart
Florian Hoelscher (piano)
Heinz Holliger (conductor)
HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.
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Playford
Wallom Green
Performers: Les Witches
- ALPHA 502.
9.02 [00’02”]: ROB'S ESSENTIAL CD OF THE WEEK
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in B minor, L.449 K.27
Performers: Anne Queffélec (piano)
- APEX 0927 44353 2.
9.07 [00'07]
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat K137
Performers: Moscow Virtuosi, Vladimir Spivakov (conductor)
- RCA RD60066.
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Chabrier orch. Koechlin
Bourée fantasque (1891, orch. 1924)
Performers: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – SWR, Heinz Holliger (conductor)
- HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.
9.31 [00’31”]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH
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Kodaly arr. Feighin
Three Hungarian Folk Dances (from Kallo)
Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Vladimir Yampolsky (piano)
- EMI 562 914 2.
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Farkas
Ancient Hungarian Dances
Performers: Frösunda Wind Quintet
- BIS BISCD 136.
9.49 [00’49”]:
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Today’s Brainteaser
Only Connect
Performers: Details of the music related to today’s brainteaser will appear on this page at 12pm. The answer will appear at the bottom of the page.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty -excerpts from Act 3
Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
- DG 457 636 2.
10.02 [10’02”]:
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Felix Mendelssohn
Ave Maria Op. 23 No. 2
Performers: La Chapelle Royale, Collegium Vocale, Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, Philippe Herreweghe (director)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HM901272.
10.10 [01’10”]: ARTIST OF THE WEEK - DAVID OISTRAKH
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata No. 4 in A minor, Op. 23
Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Lev Oborin (piano)
- PHILIPS 412 570 2.
10.30 [01’30”]: Miranda Krestovnikoff's Choices
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Antonín Dvořák
Finale of Cello Concerto in B minor, Op. 104
Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
- BBC LEGENDS BBCL 4110 2.
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Arvo Pärt
Cantus in memory of Benjamin Britten
Performers: Stuttgart State Orchestra, Dennis Russel Davies (conductor)
- ECM 817 764-2 .
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Franz Liszt
Die drei Zigeuner S320
Performers: Angelika Kirchschlager (mezzo-soprano), Julius Drake (piano)
- HYPERION CDA 67934.
11.00 [02’00”]: Rob's Essential Choice
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Schubert orch. Koechlin
Wanderer Fantasy D.760
Performers: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra – SWR, Florian Hoelscher (piano), Heinz Holliger (conductor)
- HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 93286.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Polka de W.R.
Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)
- ICAC 5020.
11.27 [02’27”]:
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Maurice Ravel
Ma Mère l'Oye
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux (conductor)
- PHILIPS 420869 2.
Broadcast
- Fri 7 Sep 201209:00BBC Radio 3
