Rob Cowan (born 14 April 1948) is an English music broadcaster and

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. Employed by music publisher

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for nineteen years in various capacities, his first record review was published in 1967."Radio 3 Presenter: Rob Cowan"
BBC Radio website He edited ''

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'' for four years from 1985, and has also contributed reviews to ''

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'', ''

Classic Record Collector ''Classical Recordings Quarterly'' (formerly ''Classic Record Collector'') was a quarterly British magazine devoted to vintage recordings of classical music, across the range of instrumental recordings, chamber music, orchestral, vocal and oper ...

'' and ''

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''. He was a co-presenter with

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and

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writer Keith Shadwick on Classic FM CD review programme. In September 1992, he was responsible for early radio plays of what became a best-selling recording (with soprano soloist

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) of

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's Third Symphony. After presenting ''CD Masters'' on Radio 3 for several years (the other host was Jonathan Swain), he had a spell as co-presenter of the Radio 3 Breakfast programme from 2007. He subsequently presented Radio 3's ''Essential Classics'' alongside Sarah Walker and ''Sunday Morning'' alongside James Jolly. He also appeared on Radio 3's ''CD Review''. In December 2017, he returned to Classic FM to present a Saturday evening programme."Rob Cowan swaps Radio 3 for Classic FM"
"Radio Today (website), 8 December 2017 Cowan has been married since 1971 and has two adult daughters.

References

External links

"Rob's Retro Classical
- Blog site
Rob Cowan on Classic FM
1948 births Living people BBC Radio 3 presenters {{UK-radio-bio-stub