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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Stephen Hough - French Album; Baiba Skride on Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor; Essential Choice Saint-Saens: Piano Concerto No 4.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Stephen Hough - French Album: HYPERION CDA67890; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear a work recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom. Today, Baiba Skride recommends Schumann's Violin Concerto in D minor.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is author and screenwriter Patrick Gale. Patrick has written a number of novels, his latest being A Perfectly Good Man, as well as short stories, novellas and a non-fiction book about the American novelist Armistead Maupin. He chaired the St Endellion Summer Music Festival in its Golden Jubilee year and also works as a book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph. When he is not writing he spends his time raising cattle and playing the baroque 'cello.

11am
Essential Choice
Saint-Saëns: Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44
Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
Orchestre de Paris
Serge Baudo (conductor)
EMI 586 129 2.

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Mon 2 Sep 201309:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • 9am: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Francis Poulenc

      Improvisation No. 8 in A minor

      Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

      • HYPERION CDA 67890.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Overture: L'Hôtellerie portugaise

    Performers: Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • EMI 575 160 2.

  • 9.12: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Claude Debussy

      Clair de lune (Suite Bergamasque)

      Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

      • HYPERION CDA 67890.

  • Fiala

    Concerto in E flat for cor anglais and orchestra

    Performers: Heinz Holliger (cor anglais), English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 426 972 2.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Dancing?

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Sammartini

    Concerto in F for descant recorder

    Performers: Michala Petri (recorder), Academy of St-Martin-in-the-Fields, Iona Brown (director)

    • PHILIPS 400 0752.

  • Claude Debussy

    Premiere rapsodie

    Performers: James Campbell (clarinet), John York (piano)

    • CALA CACD1017.

  • 9.57: Proms Artists Recommend: Baiba Skride

    • Robert Schumann

      Violin Concerto in D minor

      Performers: Gidon Kremer (violin), The Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

      • TELDEC 4509906962.

  • 10.30: Patrick Gale's Choices

    • Robert Schumann

      Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Vom fremden Ländern und Menschen; Kuriose Geschichte

      Performers: Martha Argerich (piano)

      • DG 410 653 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Noye's Fludde: Voice of God and Entry of the Animals

    Performers: The Voice of God: Richard Pasco, Noye: Donald Maxwell, Coull String Quaret, Members of Endymion Ensemble, Schools’ Orchestra and Choir from Salisbury and Chester schools, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS CUV5611222.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.

    Performers: Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 426 384 2.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Camille Saint‐Saëns

      Piano Concerto No. 4 in C minor, Op. 44

      Performers: Aldo Ciccolini (piano), Orchestre de Paris, Serge Baudo (conductor)

      • EMI 586 129 2.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op. 43

    Performers: Ensemble Wien-Berlin

    • SONY CLASSICAL CD45996.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Si celebri alfine tra canti, tra fior (Act V I vespri siciliani)

    Performers: Chorus and Orchestra of Welsh National Opera, Richard Armstrong (conductor)

    • EMI 433 830 2.

Broadcast

  • Mon 2 Sep 201309:00
    BBC Radio 3