BBC - BBC Radio 3 Programmes - Essential Classics, Thursday

Listen :

Availability:

Sorry, this programme is not available to listen again . (why?)

Last broadcast on Thu, 19 Jan 2012, 09:00 on BBC Radio 3.

Synopsis

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Arias of Anna de Amicis featuring Teodora Gheorghiu, Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset: APARTE AP021.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and a performance by the Artists of the Week, the Hagen Quartet.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is explorer, Benedict Allen, who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.

11.00am
Rob's Essential Choice.

Mahler:Symphony No.1.
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra,
Rafael Kubelik (conductor).

Today's Brainteaser Answer

The Hollywood Bowl

Music played

Timings are shown from the start of the programme in hours and minutes.

--:--

Fritz Kreisler — Rondino on a theme of Beethoven

Performers: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Istvan Hajdu (piano)
DECCA 475 8375
9.03: Rob's CD of the Week
1. --:--
  
  Myslivecek — “Sorprender mi vorresti” (Romolo ed Ersilia)
  
  Performers: Teodora Gheorghiu (soprano), Les Talens Lyriques, Christophe Rousset (director)
  APARTE AP021
--:--

Alexander Konstantinovich Glazunov — Raymonda, Act I, Sc.ii: Fantastic Waltz; Grand Adagio

Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Lovro von Matacic (conductor)
EMI 967706-2
9.30: Artists of the Week - The Hagen Quartet
1. --:--
  
  Ludwig van Beethoven — Duo for viola and cello in E flat, WoO32 ‘Duet with two obbligato eyeglasses’
  
  Performers: Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello)
  DG 453 772-2
--:--

Claude Debussy — Ecstatic Dance of Sebastian on the Live Coals (The Martyrdom of St Sebastien: First Window – The Court of Lies)

Performers: Leslie Caron (The Saint), Nathalie Stutzman (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo-soprano), London Symphony Chorus and Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 48240
--:--

Percy Grainger — Shallow Brown

Performers: John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor)
DECCA 425 159-2
10.00: Artists of the Week - The Hagen Quartet
1. --:--
  
  Antonin Dvorak — String Quartet in F major, ‘American’, Op.96
  
  Performers: Hagen Quartet
  DG 419 601-2
10.30: Benedict Allen's Choices
1. --:--
  
  Ludwig van Beethoven — Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 ‘Moonlight’ (Opening movement)
  
  Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
  DG 415 834-2
--:--

Sergey Vasilievich Rachmaninov — Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor Op.30 (Finale)

Performers: Bryon Janis (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
MERCURY 432 759-2
11.00: Rob's Essential Choice
1. --:--
  
  Gustav Mahler — Symphony No.1
  
  Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
  AUDITE 95.467