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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Stephen Hough - French Album; Xian Zhang recommends the Intermezzo from Puccini's Manon Lescaut; Essential Choice: Bruckner: Mass No 2.

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, Xian Zhang recommends Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut.

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
Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra
Eugen Jochum (conductor)
DG 432 127 2.

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Thu 5 Sep 201309:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Joseph Canteloube

    Chants d'Auvergne: Lou dizious be

    Performer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Warner Apex.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for lute and strings in D major, RV 93

    Performer: Julian Bream. Orchestra: Monteverdi Orchestra. Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • RCA Red Seal.

  • Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Gabriel Fauré

      Nocturne no.6 in D flat major Op.63

      Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
      • hyperion.

  • Grainger

    My Robin is to the Greenwood Gone; Molly on the Shore

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Philips.

  • Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov

    Baba-Yaga Olympia

    Performer: Anatoly Konstantinovich Lyadov. Performer: Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

  • Franz Lehár

    Gold and Silver Waltz, Op. 79

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • The Barbirolli Society.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Zadok the Priest (HWV 258)

    • Decca.

  • Proms Artists Recommend: Xian Zhang

    • Giacomo Puccini

      Manon Lescaut: Intermezzo

      Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
      • DG.

  • Patrick Gale’s Choice

    • Benjamin Britten

      Friday Afternoons (selection)

      Choir: New London Children’s Choir. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
      • Naxos.

  • Camille Saint‐Saëns

    Piano Trio No. 2: Finale

    Ensemble: Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Rob’s Essential Choice

    • Anton Bruckner

      Mass No. 2 in E minor

      Choir: Bavarian Radio Chorus. Orchestra: Budapest Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Eugen Jochum.
      • DG.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Introduction & Rondo, Op. 16

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Columbia.

Broadcast

  • Thu 5 Sep 201309:00
    BBC Radio 3