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Monday - Rob Cowan with Gareth Malone

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos; Brainteaser: Transports of Delight; Rob's Essential Choice: Dvorak: Violin Concerto.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is the charismatic broadcaster and choirmaster Gareth Malone. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Transports of Delight.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fasch: Quartets and Concertos - Ensemble Marsyas, LINN. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: John Wilson

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the charismatic broadcaster and choirmaster, Gareth Malone. Ahead of his appearance in one of the highlights of this year's Proms season, the War Horse Prom, Gareth will be talking to Rob about his passion for choral music. He is best known for his television appearances in programmes about singing and introducing choral music to new participants, including the BAFTA-winning series, The Choir. He has also worked for the London Symphony Orchestra at LSO St Luke's, where he ran their youth choir and community choir, and later became involved with The Knight Crew, a youth opera performed at Glyndebourne and filmed for the 蜜芽传媒 television series Gareth Malone Goes to Glyndebourne. More recently he formed the Military Wives Choir, releasing records that reached No. 1 in the UK singles and albums charts, and he now directs the Gareth Malone Voices. Gareth was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire in the 2012 Birthday Honours, for services to music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Dvorak
Violin Concerto
Franz-Peter Zimmermann (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Franz Welser-M枚st (conductor).

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Mon 28 Jul 2014 09:00
蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in A major, Op 46 No 5

    Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Recorder Quartet in B flat major, FWV NB1

    Performer: Pamela Thorby. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in B flat for piano and orchestra WoO6

    Orchestra: Vienna Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Conductor: Kurt Sanderling.
    • DG.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D for 2 trumpets, timpani, strings and continuo

    Performer: John Miller. Orchestra: English String Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton. Performer: Wesley Warren. Performer: John Wallace. Performer: William Stokes.
    • Nimbus.

  • anon

    Transports of Delight

    Conductor: anon.

  • Edward German

    Coronation March and Hymn

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Dutton.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Bachianas brasileiras No. 9

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.

  • Thomas Tallis

    In ieiunio et fletu

    Choir: Magnificat. Conductor: Philip Cave.
    • Linn.

  • Eric Coates

    London Again

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Avie.

  • Eric Whitacre

    This Marriage

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • Hyperion.

  • Franz Schubert

    Wohin? (Die sch枚ne M眉llerin)

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Ian Bostridge.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill

    Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Nash Ensemble.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Violin Concerto

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek. Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann.
    • Decca.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    "Oh! fede negar potessi.." from Luisa Miller

    Performer: Carlo Bergonzi. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Purge me, O Lord

    Choir: Stile Antico.

  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo and Finale

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Giuseppe Sinopoli.

  • Franz Schubert

    "Der J盲ger", from Die sch枚ne M眉llerin

    Performer: Ian Bostridge.

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  • Mon 28 Jul 2014 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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