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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, the Champagne Pianist; Proms Artist Recommends; Rob's Essential Choice: Holst: The Hymn of Jesus.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, The Champagne Pianist; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
Proms Artist Recommends. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week, which includes the Festival of Eid-al-Fitr, is Baroness Haleh Afshar OBE, a British professor and a life peer in the House of Lords. She is a prominent Muslim feminist, and characterises herself as a Socialist and a Shi'a Muslim. She grew up in Iran and has written extensively on the country and its politics. In the UK, she is a founding member of the Muslim Women's Network and has served on the Home Office's working groups, on "engaging with women" and "preventing extremism together". She received her OBE for services to equal opportunities.

11am
Essential Choice
Holst: The Hymn of Jesus
BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Adrian Boult (conductor).

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Tue 6 Aug 201309:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anon. Country Dance

    Running Footman

    Performers: Ulsamer Collegium, Josef Ulsamer (director)

    • DG 469 641-2.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus: Overture

    Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK 47601.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Performers: Melos Ensemble

    • EMI 918514-2.

  • 9.20: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • George Gershwin

      Variations on "I got Rhythm"

      Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Berlin Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

      • EMI 679086-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Umberto Giordano

      La Mamma Morta (Andrea Chenier)

      Performers: Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin (piano)

      • EMI 566696-2.

  • 9.35am

    • Richard Strauss

      Don Juan

      Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

      • DAL SEGNO DSPRCD050.

  • 9.55am

    • Jean Sibelius

      Romance in D flat, Op.24 No.9

      Performers: Annette Servadei (piano)

      • REGIS RRC 1281.

  • 10am: Proms Artists Recommend - John Storgårds

    • Robert Schumann

      Violin Sonata No. 3

      Performers: Carolin Widmann (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano)

      • ECM 476 6744.

  • 10.20am

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture No.5 in D major

      Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 0722.

  • 10.30: Haleh Afshar's Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      La ci darem il mano (Don Giovanni)

      Performers: Cesare Siepi (bass), Hilde Gueden (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, Josef Krips (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 1389.

  • 10.41: Haleh Afshar's Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Presto Agitato (Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight')

      Performers: Valentina Lisitsa (piano)

      • DECCA 478 457-2.

  • 10.51am

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Spring

      Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi

      • CHANDOS CHAN 7049.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Gustav Holst

      Hymn of Jesus

      Performers: BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • DECCA 470 191-2.

  • 11.23am

    • Kodály Zoltán

      Summer Evening

      Performers: Philharmonica Hungarica, Antal Dorati (conductor)

      • DECCA 443 006-2.

  • 11.38am

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Variations on a Rococo theme, Op.33

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • DG 477 8167.

Broadcast

  • Tue 6 Aug 201309:00
    BBC Radio 3