
Tuesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, the Champagne Pianist; Proms Artist Recommends; Rob's Essential Choice: Holst: The Hymn of Jesus.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Alexis Weissenberg, The Champagne Pianist; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
Proms Artist Recommends. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week, which includes the Festival of Eid-al-Fitr, is Baroness Haleh Afshar OBE, a British professor and a life peer in the House of Lords. She is a prominent Muslim feminist, and characterises herself as a Socialist and a Shi'a Muslim. She grew up in Iran and has written extensively on the country and its politics. In the UK, she is a founding member of the Muslim Women's Network and has served on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Office's working groups, on "engaging with women" and "preventing extremism together". She received her OBE for services to equal opportunities.
11am
Essential Choice
Holst: The Hymn of Jesus
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus
Adrian Boult (conductor).
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Music Played
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Anon. Country Dance
Running Footman
Performers: Ulsamer Collegium, Josef Ulsamer (director)
- DG 469 641-2.
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Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus: Overture
Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- SONY CLASSICAL SMK 47601.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Overture on Hebrew Themes
Performers: Melos Ensemble
- EMI 918514-2.
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9.20: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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George Gershwin
Variations on "I got Rhythm"
Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Berlin Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- EMI 679086-2.
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9.30am
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Umberto Giordano
La Mamma Morta (Andrea Chenier)
Performers: Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin (piano)
- EMI 566696-2.
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9.35am
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Richard Strauss
Don Juan
Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
- DAL SEGNO DSPRCD050.
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9.55am
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Jean Sibelius
Romance in D flat, Op.24 No.9
Performers: Annette Servadei (piano)
- REGIS RRC 1281.
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10am: Proms Artists Recommend - John Storgårds
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Robert Schumann
Violin Sonata No. 3
Performers: Carolin Widmann (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano)
- ECM 476 6744.
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10.20am
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Thomas Arne
Overture No.5 in D major
Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 0722.
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10.30: Haleh Afshar's Choice
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
La ci darem il mano (Don Giovanni)
Performers: Cesare Siepi (bass), Hilde Gueden (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic, Josef Krips (conductor)
- DECCA 478 1389.
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10.41: Haleh Afshar's Choice
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Presto Agitato (Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight')
Performers: Valentina Lisitsa (piano)
- DECCA 478 457-2.
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10.51am
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Alexander Glazunov
Spring
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi
- CHANDOS CHAN 7049.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Gustav Holst
Hymn of Jesus
Performers: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Adrian Boult (conductor)
- DECCA 470 191-2.
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11.23am
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Kodály Zoltán
Summer Evening
Performers: Philharmonica Hungarica, Antal Dorati (conductor)
- DECCA 443 006-2.
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11.38am
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo theme, Op.33
Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
- DG 477 8167.
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Broadcast
- Tue 6 Aug 2013 09:00ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio 3