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Monday - Rob Cowan with Geraldine James

Essential Classics

With Rob Cowan. Including Reasons to Love Schumann songs; Musical challenge; Artists of the Week: the LaSalle Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Haydn: Nelson Mass.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Schumann songs.' Amongst the greatest musical achievements of the nineteenth century, each day this week Rob will handpick a great interpreter to showcase these miniature marvels.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery composer.

10am
Rob's guest this week is the actress Geraldine James. An award-winning actress of both stage and screen, Geraldine will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Tallis, Schubert and Bach, every day at 10am.

10.30am
This week Rob features the LaSalle Quartet. A personal favourite of Rob's, he will be exploring this American string quartet's finest recordings by composers including Brahms, Wolf, Beethoven and Debussy, as well as their renowned interpretations of Schoenberg and the Second Viennese School.

11am
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review

Haydn
Missa in angustiis Hob:XXII:11 'Nelson Mass'.

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Mon 23 Mar 2015 09:00

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Joseph Haydn

Il mondo della luna (Act 2, March)
Orchestra: Lausanne Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
- PHILIPS.
William Herschel

Symphony No 13 in D major
Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
- CHANDOS.
5 Reasons to Love... Schumann songs
- Robert Schumann
  
  Myrthen, Op. 25: Widmung; Liederkreis, Op. 39: In der Fremde
  Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf.
  
  EMI.
Gioachino Rossini

Variazioni a più strumenti obbligati
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
Marcel Dupré

Magnificat VI: Gloria
Performer: Michael Murray.
- TELARC.
Igor Stravinsky

Apollon musagète: Pas de deux
Conductor: Igor Stravinsky. Orchestra: Columbia Orchestra.
- SONY.
Hector Berlioz

The damnation of Faust Op.24 (excerpts)
Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
- DECCA ELOQUENCE.
François-Joseph Gossec

Marche Lugubre
Orchestra: The Wallace Collection. Conductor: John Wallace.
- NIMBUS.
Geraldine James' Choice No. 1
- Frederick Loewe
  
  ‘On the Street Where You Live’, from My Fair Lady
  Singer: Leonard Weir. Director: Cyril Ornadel.
  
  COLUMBIA.
Geraldine James' Choice No. 2
- Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
  
  Scheherazade Op.35; 1. The Sea and Sinbad’s Ship
  Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
  
  RCA.
Artist of the Week: LaSalle Quartet
- Arnold Schoenberg
  
  Verklärte Nacht
  Performer: Donald McInnes. Performer: Jonathan Pegis. Ensemble: LaSalle Quartet.
  
  DG.
Essential Choice
- Joseph Haydn
  
  Missa in Angustiis Hob. XXII:11 ‘Nelson Mass’
  Ensemble: Bach‐Collegium Stuttgart. Conductor: Helmuth Rilling. Singer: Letizia Scherrer. Singer: Roxana Constantinescu. Choir: Gächinger Kantorei Stuttgart. Singer: Maximilian Schmitt. Singer: Michael Nagy.
  
  HANSSLER CLASSIC.