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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Monica Galetti

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Folk Dances; Artist of the Week: Hilliard Ensemble; Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 4 in D minor.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Rob Cowan. His guest is the chef Monica Galetti.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... folk dances'. Throughout the week Rob enjoys works based on folk themes by Arnold, Grieg, Bartok and Bruch.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery object.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the chef Monica Galetti. Well known for her role as a judge on the cooking show MasterChef: The Professionals, Monica is the Senior Sous Chef at top London restaurant Le Gavroche. Monica will be sharing her favourite classical music every day at 10am.

10.30am
This week Rob features recordings by the vocal quartet The Hilliard Ensemble. Regarded as one of the world's finest vocal chamber groups, The Hilliards have established a formidable reputation both for their interpretations of early music and for their premieres of works by living composers. As they celebrate their 40th anniversary and prepare for their final performance, Rob showcases favourite recordings chosen especially by the members of the ensemble.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schumann
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 (1841 version)
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

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Tue 16 Dec 2014 09:00

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Louis‐Claude Daquin

Le coucou
Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
- ARCHIV.
5 Reasons to love... Folk Dances
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  Swan Lake: Hungarian Dance
  Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
  
  DG.
Frédéric Chopin

Barcarolle in F sharp major Op.60
Performer: Samson François.
- EMI.
Ralph Vaughan Williams

Tuba Concerto in F minor
Performer: Patrick Harrild. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
- CHANDOS.
Artists of the Week: The Hilliard Ensemble
- Anon.
  
  Lullay, I Saw
  Performer: The Hilliard Ensemble.
Igor Stravinsky

Scherzo a la Russe
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
- Mercury Living Presence.
Christoph Willibald Gluck

Trio Sonata No 6 in F major
Ensemble: Aura Musicale. Director: Balázs Máté.
- CHR. W. Gluck The Seven Trio Sonatas Aura Musicale.
- Hungaroton Classic.
- 16.
Gaetano Donizetti

Air de danse (Les martyrs)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio de Almeida.
- PHILIPS.
Johann Gottlieb Naumann

Sonata No.3 – Andantino amaroso
Performer: Thomas Bloch.
- NAXOS.
Monica Galetti's Choice No. 1
- Fernando Sor
  
  5 Fantasias Op.21 – No.6 in G ‘Les Adieux!’
  Performer: Luis Orlandini.
  
  CPO.
Monica Galetti's Choice No. 2
- Georg Philipp Telemann
  
  Suite in D major (Tafelmusik)
  Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
  
  ARCHIV.
Percy Grainger

Blithe Bells
Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
Artists of the Week: The Hilliard Ensemble
- anon
  
  Madame d’amours
  Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
  
  MUSICAL CONCEPTS.
Antonín Dvořák

My Homeland, Op 62
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Libor Pešek.
- Dvorak: Czech Suite/American Suite Overtures: Pesek.
- Virgin Classics.
- 4.
Artists of the Week: The Hilliard Ensemble
- Pérotin
  
  Viderunt omnes
  Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.
  
  ECM NEW SERIES.
Robert Schumann

Romance, Op 94 No 2
Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Performer: Markus Becker.
- Music for oboe, oboe d'amore, cor anglais and piano: Albrecht Mayer, Markus Beck.
- EMI Classics.
- 2.
Essential Choice
- Robert Schumann
  
  Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120 (1841 version)
  Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
  
  DG.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Flute Concerto No 1 in G, K313
Performer: Werner Tripp. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Karl Böhm.
Frédéric Chopin

Waltz in E minor
Performer: Friedrich Gulda.