Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Joanne Harris
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - Complete Recordings 1991-2007; Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Liszt: Orpheus.
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the author Joanne Harris.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - The Complete Recordings 1991-2007, WARNER. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet.
10:30
Rob's guest this week is the author Joanne Harris, best known for writing the award-winning novel Chocolat (later turned into a highly successful film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp). The book was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and due to its success in 2012 Joanne became one of only four female members of the "Millionnaires' Club," the elite group of authors who have achieved a million sales of one book in the UK since records began. She has written two more novels in the Chocolat series: The Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, as well as two French cookbooks (co-written with Fran Warde). In 2007 she published Runemarks, a fantasy novel based on Norse mythology, aimed at both children and adults. A sequel, Runelight, followed in 2011, and Joanne continued with the Norse mythology theme in her most recent novel, The Gospel of Loki, published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Liszt
Orpheus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052
Performer: Lukas Foss. Ensemble: Elysium String Quartet. Performer: John Feeney.- Elysium Recordings.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 3
Performer: Arthur Rubinstein. Orchestra: Symphony of the Air. Conductor: Josef Krips.- RCA Living Stereo.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture: Zur Namensfeier
Orchestra: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.1 - iii. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen
Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.- DG.
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Alfredo Catalani
"Ebben? Ne andro lontana" (La Wally)
Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Turin Teatro Regio Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.- DECCA.
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Charles Gounod
Cleopatra’s Dance (Faust)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Antonín Dvořák
String Quintet, Op.97
Ensemble: Talich Quartet.- LA DOLCE VITA.
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M. Camargo Guarnieri
Brazilian Dance
Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Franz Liszt
Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Symphony No.1 ‘Classical’
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolai Malko.- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Calme des nuits (2 Choruses Op.68)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Philips.
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Henryk Wieniawski
Légende Op.17
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.- Warner.
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William Wigthorpe
Rowland
Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Conductor: William Lyons.- Flower of Cities All - Music in London 1580-1620.
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Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who's Singing?
Cleopatra, from Handel's opera, Giulio Cesare.
The music played:
Handel
“V’adoro pupille” (Giulio Cesare)
Barbara Schlick (soprano)
Concerto Köln
Réne Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901385.87
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