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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Susan Hill

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love: violin miniatures; author Susan Hill; Artist of the Week: Belcea Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Tapiola, Op 112.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. This week his guest is the author Susan Hill.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love' violin miniatures, featuring
great romantic showpieces performed by star violinists Hagai Shaham, Nikolaj Znaider, Isaac Stern, Jascha Heifetz and Arthur Grumiaux.

9.30am
Mystery Voice
Take part in our daily challenge and identify the character that is singing.

10am
Especially for Halloween week, the author Susan Hill joins Rob in the studio. Susan's writing career has encompassed acclaimed literary novels, ghost stories, children's books, detective novels and memoirs. Her ghost story The Woman in Black was adapted into a successful film and is currently running as a play in the West End. Susan shares a selection of her favourite music with Rob.

10.30am
Artist of the Week:
The Belcea Quartet performing quartets by Ravel, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert's 'Death and the Maiden' and Brahms' String Quintet, Op. 111.

11am
This week's Essential Choices feature composers' final masterpieces, written at the end of their lives.
Sibelius
Tapiola, Op. 112
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor).

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Tue 28 Oct 2014 09:00

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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Miniature Overture (Nutcracker Suite Op.71a)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
- PHILIPS.
Antonio Vivaldi

Concerto for String and Continuo in A, R.159
Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
- ARCHIV.
5 Reasons to love... Violin Miniatures
- Henryk Wieniawski
  
  Polonaise Op. 4
  Performer: David Gortler. Performer: Nikolaj Znaider.
  
  RCA.
Ernest Chausson

Soir de fete, Op.32
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
- CHANDOS.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Piano Sonata in E flat major, Op.81a ‘Les Adieux’
Performer: Kun Woo Paik.
- DECCA.
Susan Hill's Choice No. 1
- Herbert Howells
  
  Like as the Hart
  Choir: Christ Church Cathedral Choir, Oxford. Director: Stephen Darlington.
  
  AVIE.
Susan Hill's Choice No. 2
- John Ireland
  
  This week's guest, Susan Hill
  Choir: Lincoln Cathedral Choir. Performer: Charles Harrison. Director: Aric Prentice.
  
  NAXOS.
Giuseppe Martucci

Tarantella, Op 44 No 6
Orchestra: Orchestra sinfonica di Roma. Conductor: Francesco La Vecchia.
- Martucci: Complete Orchestral Music 2.
- Naxos.
- 7.
Artists of the Week: Belcea Quartet
- Johannes Brahms
  
  String Quartet in G major, Op 111 No 2
  Performer: Thomas Kakuska. Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.
  
  EMI.
Essential Choice
- Jean Sibelius
  
  Tapiola
  Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
  
  BIS.
Aleksander Zarzycki

Mazurka
Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Vladimir Yampolsky.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Piano Concerto No.26 in D 'Coronation', K.537
Performer: Maria João Pires. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.