Monday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Leopold Stokowski: The Stereo Collection; Artist of the Week: pianist Shura Cherkassky; author and broadcaster Kate Mosse; Debussy: Images.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Leopold Stokowski: The Stereo Collection RCA RED SEAL 88691916852
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Shura Cherkassky.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week of Hallowe'en is the international best-selling author and broadcaster Kate Mosse. Kate has enjoyed widespread acclaim for her novels. Labyrinth was a New York Times bestselling novel, winning the Best Read category at the British Book Awards 2006, and was the biggest selling title of 2006. Sepulchre, the second in the Languedoc Trilogy, was also an international bestseller, while Citadel, the final novel in the trilogy, was published in September this year. Kate is the co-founder and Honorary Director of the Orange Prize for Fiction, now the Woman's Prize for Fiction.
As well as fiction, Kate currently writes columns for The Bookseller, The Times, The Sunday Times, the Guardian, the Independent and the Financial Times.
She is also a popular broadcaster, and appears as a regular guest on 91热爆 One's Breakfast News, 91热爆 Two's The Review Show and as a guest presenter on A Good Read for 91热爆 Radio 4.
11am
Debussy: Images
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Aram Khachaturian
Scene of Embroidering of a Rug (Gayaneh)
Performers: USSR Large TV Symphony Orchestra, Djansug Kakhidze (conductor)
- MELODIYA 74321 63459-2.
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9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture, Op. 80
Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
- SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major, K.439b/1
Performers: Nicholas Bucknall, Richard Horsford & Mark Tromans (basset horns), Wind Soloists from the Chamber Orchestra of Europe
- WARNER CLASSICS 2564 60866-2.
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Today's Brainteaser
Mystery Piece
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
- EMI 5678932.
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9.48: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassky
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Litolff
Scherzo (Concerto symphonique No. 4, Op. 102)
Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano), 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
- FIRST HAND MASTERS FHR04.
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Bach arr. Busoni
Chaconne (Partita for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004)
Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)
- DECCA 433 654-2.
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Franz von Supp猫
Dichter und Bauer
Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- SONY SMK 47606.
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10.30: Kate Mosse's Choices
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67: 1st movement, Allegro con brio 聽 聽
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber聽(conductor)
- DG 415 861-2.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5 in D minor, Op. 47: 3rd movement, Largo
Performers: National Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
- TELDEC 4509-94557-2.
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Bedrich Smetana
Our Song
Performers: Czech Philharmonic Chorus, Josef Veselka (chorus master)
- SUPRAPHON SU 30402.
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Claude Debussy
Images pour orchestre
Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Violin Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.75
Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin) and Brooks Smith (piano)
- RCA 09026 617762.
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