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Essential Classics

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Essential Classics: Thursday - Rob Cowan

Thursday - Rob Cowan

10/05/2012

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2.

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Artist of the Week: clarinettist Eduard Brunner; Rob's Essential Choice: Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 62.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Frederick Fennell conducting the London Pops and Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestras:
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9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the clarinettist Eduard Brunner.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest for the week is artist Jonathan Yeo who made his name as a contemporary portraitist in the late 1990s, exhibiting frequently at the National Portrait Gallery. Jonathan introduces his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 62.
Igor Oistrakh (violin),
Philharmonia Orchestra,
Alceo Galliera (conductor).
EMI 62889.

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