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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Leopold Stokowski: The Stereo Collection; Artist of the Week: Shura Cherkassky; Rob's Essential Choice: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 2.

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
Rob's Essential Choice
Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony (Symphony No.2)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
TELARC CD 80138.

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Tue 30 Oct 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Adolphe Adam

    La Chasse 'The Hunt' (Giselle)

    Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94354.

  • 9.02am

    • Bizet arr. Borne

      Fantaisie brillante on themes from Carmen

      Performers: Wolfgang Schultz (flute), Stefan Vladar (piano)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 52 564.

  • 9.15: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Russian Easter Festival: Concert overture, Op. 36

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12 noon

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassy

    • Saint-Saens arr. Godowsky

      The Swan (Carnival of the Animals)

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • FIRST HAND MASTERS FHR04.

  • Lyadov

    A Musical Snuffbox, Op. 32

    Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

    • FIRST HAND MASTERS FHR04.

  • 9.37am

    • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

      Dances of Galanta

      Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

      • HUNGAROTON HCD31324.

  • 9.53am

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Nulla in mundo pax sincera sine felle, RV630

      Performers: Elly Ameling (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 462 234-2.

  • 10.08: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassy

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Preludes, Op. 28: Nos. 4, 6, 7, 10, 13, 17, 20 & 23

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • DECCA 433 653-2.

  • 10.24am

    • Coates

      The Seven Seas

      Performers: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)

      • ASV CD WHL2112.

  • 10.30: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • Richard Wagner

      Parsifal, Prelude to Act I

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • DG 413 347.

  • 10.51: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • Anne Dudley

      Canticles of the Sun and the Moon

      Performers: Frank Riccotti, Gary Kettel (percussion), Skaila Kanga (harp), Choir & Orchestra conducted by the composer

      • ECHO ECHCD 3.

  • 10.59am

    • Anon.

      A Scot's Tune

      Performers: Karl Nyhlin (lute)

      • DB Productions DBCD147.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Symphony No. 2 'A London Symphony'

      Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra [Barry Griffiths, solo violin], Andre Previn (conductor)

      • TELARC CD 80138.

  • 11.52am

    • Anton Bruckner

      Os Justi

      Performers: Choir of St Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson (director)

      • DELPHIAN DCD34071.

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