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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Stephen Hough - French Album; Proms Artist Recommends; Rob's Essential Choice: Barber: Souvenirs, Op 28.

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.

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
Barber: Souvenirs (Ballet Suite), Op. 28
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor)
NAXOS 8.559044.

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Fri 6 Sep 201309:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Sonata, K.545: 3rd movement

    Performer: Xavier de Maistre.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in D major S.226 (1st mvt)

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv Producktion.

  • Cécile Chaminade

    Autumn (6 Études de concert- book 1 Op.35)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 013.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mephisto Waltz

    Orchestra: Danubia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Domonkos Heja.
    • Warner Apex.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour, Op. 12

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • Chandos.

  • Édouard Lalo

    Norwegian Rhapsody for orchestra

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yondani Butt.
    • ASV.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Capriccio for piano and orchestra: 3rd movement

    Performer: Geoffrey Tozer. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Neue Pizzicato-Polka, Op. 449

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Quintana.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Love Scene from Romeo and Juliet

    Performer: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Lorin Maazel.
    • DG 459 019 2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    String Quartet No. 2 in C, Op. 36: Allegro calmo senza rigore

    Ensemble: Endellion Quartet.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Schutz

    Wie habe ich dein Gesetze so lieb (Psalm 119)

    Performer: Collegium Vocale Gent. Performer: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No. 3 in C major: Bouree & Gigue

    Performer: Daniil Borisovich Shafran.
    • Brilliant Classics.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Mazurka in C sharp minor op 30 no 4

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini (piano).
    • DG.

  • Samuel Barber

    Souvenirs (Ballet Suite), Op. 28

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in F K280

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor, 'Farewell' (4th movement)

    Orchestra: Anima Eterna. Conductor: Jos van Immerseel.
    • Zig Zag Territories.

Broadcast

  • Fri 6 Sep 201309:00
    BBC Radio 3

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