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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including Artist of the Week: pianist Martha Argerich. Haydn: Gypsy Piano Trio. Chopin: Prelude, Op 28 No 15; Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 7.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Idylls - Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Neville Marriner (conductor) PHILIPS 442 8415.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Martha Argerich. A keen chamber musician, today we hear her in works by Haydn (Gypsy Piano Trio), Prokofiev (Symphony No. 1 'Classical', arranged for two pianos), and in Chopin's Prelude in D flat Op. 28 No. 15.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest this week is science writer, broadcaster and professor of genetics Prof. Steve Jones. Today Steve reveals a composer he has a particular passion for, as well as one of his favourite performers.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice.

Sibelius: Symphony No. 7 in C major Op.105
Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra
Paavo Berglund (conductor)
EMI CDC 747 443 2.

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Tue 14 Feb 2012 09:00

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9am: Artist of the Week - Martha Argerich
- Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Bourée from English Suite no 2 in A minor BWV 807
  
  Performers: Martha Argerich (piano)
  
  DG 477 9554.
Nick Hallam

Dance Suite

Performers: Galliard Ensemble
- DEUX ELLES DXL1025.
9.15: Rob's CD of the Week
- Frank Bridge
  
  Summer (Tone poem for orchestra)
  
  Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
  
  PHILIPS 442 8416.
George Frideric Handel

Qui ti sfido (Arianna in Creta)

Performers: Philippe Jaroussky (countertenor), Le Concert d’Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm (conductor)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS 0094639524228.
9.30: Artist of the Week - Martha Argerich
- Joseph Haydn
  
  Piano Trio in G Hob.XV:25 ('Gypsy' Trio)
  
  Performers: Renaud Capuçon (violin), Gautier Capuçon (cello), Martha Argerich (piano)
  
  EMI 094623 2.
Claude Debussy

Clair de lune

Arranger: Caplet Performers: The Philharmonia, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)
- CALA CACD1001.
10am: Artist of the Week - Martha Argerich
- Sergei Prokofiev
  
  Symphony no 1 in D op 25 'Classical'
  
  Arranger: Terashima Performers: Martha Argerich & Yefim Bronfman (pianos)
  
  EMI 094053 2.
Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer

Concerto Armonico no 3 in A

Performers: I Musici
- NEWTON CLASSICS 8802023.
Giovanni Gabrieli

Canzon V

Performers: Canadian Brass
- SONY CLASSICAL 886977 679827.
10.25: Artist of the Week - Martha Argerich
- Frédéric Chopin
  
  Prelude in D flat op 28 no 15 'Raindrop'
  
  Performers: Martha Argerich (piano)
  
  PHILIPS 456 704 2.
10.30: Steve Jones' Choices
- Richard Wagner - "Ewig war ich, ewig bin ich…" - to end of opera (Act 3 'Siegfrie
  
  Performers: Brünnhilde: Helga Dernesch, Siegfried: Jess Thomas, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Domenico Scarlatti

Sonata: In D major Kk 492

Performers: Wanda Landowska (harpsichord)
- EMI CDH 764 934 2.
Anon c 1795

Guter Mond, du gehst so stille

Performers: Christine Maria Rembeck (voice and piano); Emilia Gliozzi (cello)
- RAUM KLANG RK 3002.
11am: Rob's Essential Choice
- Jean Sibelius
  
  Symphony no 7 in C major op 105
  
  Performers: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
  
  EMI CDC 747 443 2.
11.22:
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  String Quintet in G minor K516
  
  Performers: Amadeus Quartet, Cecil Aronowitz (viola)
  
  DG 431 151 2.