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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).

3 hours

Last on

Tue 6 Aug 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Anon. Country Dance

    Running Footman

    Performers: Ulsamer Collegium, Josef Ulsamer (director)

    • DG 469 641-2.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus: Overture

    Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SMK 47601.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Overture on Hebrew Themes

    Performers: Melos Ensemble

    • EMI 918514-2.
  • 9.20: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • George Gershwin

      Variations on "I got Rhythm"

      Performers: Alexis Weissenberg (piano), Berlin Philharmonic, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

      • EMI 679086-2.
  • 9.30am

    • Umberto Giordano

      La Mamma Morta (Andrea Chenier)

      Performers: Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin (piano)

      • EMI 566696-2.
  • 9.35am

    • Richard Strauss

      Don Juan

      Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

      • DAL SEGNO DSPRCD050.
  • 9.55am

    • Jean Sibelius

      Romance in D flat, Op.24 No.9

      Performers: Annette Servadei (piano)

      • REGIS RRC 1281.
  • 10am: Proms Artists Recommend - John StorgÃ¥rds

    • Robert Schumann

      Violin Sonata No. 3

      Performers: Carolin Widmann (violin), Dénes Várjon (piano)

      • ECM 476 6744.
  • 10.20am

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture No.5 in D major

      Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 0722.
  • 10.30: Haleh Afshar's Choice

    • 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.
  • 10.41: Haleh Afshar's Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Presto Agitato (Piano Sonata in C sharp minor, Op.27 No.2 'Moonlight')

      Performers: Valentina Lisitsa (piano)

      • DECCA 478 457-2.
  • 10.51am

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Spring

      Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi

      • CHANDOS CHAN 7049.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Gustav Holst

      Hymn of Jesus

      Performers: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • DECCA 470 191-2.
  • 11.23am

    • Kodály Zoltán

      Summer Evening

      Performers: Philharmonica Hungarica, Antal Dorati (conductor)

      • DECCA 443 006-2.
  • 11.38am

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Variations on a Rococo theme, Op.33

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • DG 477 8167.

Broadcast

  • Tue 6 Aug 2013 09:00

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