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Monday - Rob Cowan

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including Artist of the Week: violinist Isaac Stern; The Rev Richard Coles's favourite classical music; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Goldberg Variations.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Balalaika Favourites - a classic recording from the Osipov State Russian Folk Orchestra: MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 4501352

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Isaac Stern.

10.30am
In the first week of Lent, The Essential Classics guest is the Reverend Richard Coles who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Bach
The Goldberg Variations BWV988
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 20 Feb 2012 09:00

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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

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Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)
- PHILIPS 4781708.
9.19: Rob's CD of the Week
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  
  The Tale of Tsar Saltan - The flight of the bumblebee
  
  Performers: Osipov State Russian Orchestra, Vitaly Gnutov (conductor)
  
  MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 450136.
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Kamarinskaya

Performers: Osipov State Russian Orchestra, Vitaly Gnutov (conductor)
- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 450136.
Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

Kamarinskaya

Performers: Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor)
- FUGA LIBERA FUG571.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Don Giovanni - 'Don Giovanni, a cenar teco'

Performers: Don Giovanni: Eberhard Wachter (baritone); Leporello: Guiseppe Taddei (baritone); Commendatore: Gottlob Frick (bass), Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
- EMI CDS 7472608.
9.35: Artist of the Week - Isaac Stern
- Maurice Ravel
  
  Tzigane
  
  Performers: Isaac Stern (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
  
  SONY 45952.
Louis Couperin

Les Baricades Misterieuses (Book II - Sixieme Ordre)

Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67440.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Don Giovanni - 'Meta di voi qua vadano'

Performers: Don Giovanni: Eberhard Wachter (baritone), Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
- EMI CDS 7472608.
9.55: Artist of the Week - Isaac Stern
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  Violin Concerto in D Op.35
  
  Performers: Isaac Stern (violin), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
  
  SONY 45952.
10.30: Richard Coles' Choices
- Joseph Haydn
  
  String Quartet Op. 20 No. 6 in A
  
  Performers: Hagen Quartet
  
  DG 4399202.
Richard Wagner - 'Winterstürme wichen dem Wonnemond' Die Walkure, Act I Sc III

Performers: Wotan: John Vickers (tenor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
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- Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Goldberg Variations (No.16 to final Aria)
  
  Performers: Andras Schiff (piano)
  
  ECM NEW SERIES 1825.
Bedrich Smetana

Sarka (Ma Vlast)

Performers: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Valek (conductor)
- SUPRAPHON SU 39162.
Luigi Cherubini

Overture to Finaska

Performers: Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
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