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Essential Classics: Tuesday - Rob Cowan

Tuesday - Rob Cowan

25/10/2011

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Rob Cowan presents music by Weber, Wagner and Scriabin.

With Rob Cowan. Includes Herbert Blomstedt leading Weber's Clarinet Concertino (with Sabine Mayer) and Wagner's Siegfried Idyll. Plus Essential Choice: Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy.

9am.
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The Melos Ensemble, Music among Friends - EMI 918514-2.

9.30am.
A daily brainteaser and a recording of our Artist of the Week conductor Herbert Blomstedt in Weber (Clarinet Concertino with Sabine Meyer) and Wagner (Siegfried Idyll). 

10.30am.
The Essential Classics guest is journalist and author Matthew D'Ancona, one of the judges on this year's Booker Prize panel. Today he introduces a piece he would like to play if he were a virtuoso and music by his favourite composer.

11am.
Rob's Essential Choice.

Schubert
String Quartet in G major, D.887
Gidon Kremer & Daniel Philips (violins), Kim Kashkashian (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
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