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Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Wednesday - Rob Cowan

18/04/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Rob Cowan presents music by Shostakovich and Schumann. His guest is Alan Hollinghurst.

With Rob Cowan. Including Artist of the Week: cellist Alban Gerhardt in Shostakovich: Spring Waltz; Sonata, Op 40; Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C, Op 61.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Barry McDaniel - Lieder by Schubert, Schumann, Wolf, Duparc and Debussy (AUDITE 23.426)

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, cellist Alban Gerhardt. Hear him in a pair of works by Shostakovich: Spring Waltz (from 8 pieces for cello and piano) and the Sonata in D minor for cello and piano, Op.40.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the novelist Alan Hollinghurst, winner of the 2004 Man Booker Prize for The Line of Beauty. Alan introduces his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Schumann
Symphony No. 2 in C, Op.61
Southwest German Radio Symphony Orchestra Michael Gielen (conductor) HANSSLER CD 93.259.

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