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Essential Classics

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Refresh your morning with a great selection of classical music, presented by Georgia Mann.

Essential Classics: Thursday - Rob Cowan

Thursday - Rob Cowan

05/09/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Bruckner: Mass No 2.

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Stephen Hough - French Album; Xian Zhang recommends the Intermezzo from Puccini's Manon Lescaut; Essential Choice: Bruckner: Mass No 2.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Stephen Hough - French Album: HYPERION CDA67890; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
?Proms Artist Recommends?. A chance to hear a work recommended by an artist appearing in tonight?s Prom. Today, Xian Zhang recommends Puccini: Intermezzo from Manon Lescaut.

10.30am
Rob?s guest this week is author and screenwriter Patrick Gale. Patrick has written a number of novels, his latest being A Perfectly Good Man, as well as short stories, novellas and a non-fiction book about the American novelist Armistead Maupin. He chaired the St Endellion Summer Music Festival in its Golden Jubilee year and also works as a book reviewer for The Daily Telegraph. When he is not writing he spends his time raising cattle and playing the baroque ?cello.

11am
Essential Choice
Bruckner: Mass No. 2 in E minor
Bavarian Radio Chorus and Orchestra
Eugen Jochum (conductor)
DG 432 127 2.

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