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Monday - Rob Cowan

Essential Classics

Rob Cowan shares great music and performances. Including the Essential CD of the Week featuring recorder player Michala Petri and Artist of the Week Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The recorder player Michala Petri plays baroque Concertos and Sonatas: RCA 88697672632

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by our Artist of the Week, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

10.30am
In the week of Burns Night, the Essential Classics guest is the Scottish poet and novelist Jackie Kay who introduces her essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 23 Jan 2012 09:00

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Felix Mendelssohn

Midsummer Night's Dream - Dance of the Clowns

Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag (conductor)
- DECCA 4669902.
9.02: Rob's CD of the Week
- Antonio Vivaldi
  
  Concerto in G minor RV315 'Summer'
  
  Performers: Michala Petri (soprano recorder), Guildhall String Ensemble, George Malcolm (harpsichord)
  
  RCA 88697672632.
Alexander Borodin

Polovtsian March

Performers: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor)
- DECCA 4782122.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Divertimento in D major

Performers: The Amadeus Quartet
- DG 4778680.
9.30: Artist of the Week - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Franz Schubert
  
  Winterreise D.911 - Gute Nacht
  
  Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Klaus Billing (piano)
  
  MOVIMENTO MUSICA 051019.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Keyboard Concerto No. 4 in A major BWV1055

Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (conductor)
- HYPERION CDA 676078.
10.05: Artist of the Week - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau
- Gustav Mahler
  
  Lieder eines fahrenden gesellen
  
  Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
  
  DG 4635162.
10.30: Jackie Kay's Choices
- Antonio Vivaldi
  
  Concerto for two mandolins, strings and continuo in G RV532
  
  Performers: Giovanni Scaramuzzino & Sonia Maurer (mandolins), Europa Galante, Fabio Biondi (conductor)
  
  VIRGIN 5455272.
Bessie Smith

Kitchen Man

Performers: Bessie Smith (voice), Clarance Williams (piano), Eddie Land (guitar)
- BBC CD 602.
11am:
- Modest Mussorgsky
  
  Pictures at an Exhibition
  
  Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday’s CD Review
Debussy (arr. Busser)

Printemps

Performers: Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Markl (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.572583.