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Wednesday - 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: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto 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
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op.44
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Richard Krauss (conductor)
PHILIPS 456 745-2.

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Aragonaise (Le Cid)

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Fr茅maux (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 763024-2.

  • Enescu

    Romanian Rhapsody No. 1, Op. 11

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • MERCURY 432 015-2.

  • 9.14: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Bach arr. Stokowski

      Komm s眉sser Tod, BWV 478

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.

  • 9.18: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Trad.

      Deep River

      Performers: Norman Luboff Choir, New Symphony Orchestra of London, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.

  • 9.25am

    • Bolcom

      Graceful Ghost (Three Ghost Rags)

      Performers: John Murphy (piano)

      • ALBANY TROY 325-326.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • 9.31am

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      The Ruler of the Spirits Op.27

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Neeme J盲rvi (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN8766.

  • 9.40am

    • Edvard Grieg

      Anitra's Dance; Peer Gynt's Serenade (Incidental music to Ibsen's Peer Gynt, Op. 23)

      Performers: Urban Malmberg (baritone), San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 4588.

  • 9.48am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      String Quartet in G major, K.387

      Performers: Amadeus Quartet

      • DG 423 300-2.

  • 10.10: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassky

    • George Gershwin

      Three Preludes

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • FIRST HAND MASTERS.

  • 10.22am

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Epithalme; Nocturne (Shylock, incidental music)

      Performers: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, Michel Plasson (conductor)

      • EMI 648625-2.

  • 10.30: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • William Walton

      Belshazzar's Feast (conclusion)

      Performers: Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), 91热爆 Symphony Chorus & Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

      • TELDEC 4509 97868-2.

  • 10.48: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • Claude Debussy

      Preludes from Book 1: La Fille aux Cheveux de lin; La Cath茅drale Engloutie

      Performers: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN10421.

  • 10.59am

    • Maurice Durufl茅

      Notre Pere

      Performers: King's Singers

      • NAXOS 8.572987.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Piano Concerto No. 2 in G major, Op. 44

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Krauss (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 456 745-2.

  • 11.39am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Sonata in E flat, Op.12 No.3

      Performers: Josef Suk (violin), Jan Panenka (piano)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 4077-2.

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  • Wed 31 Oct 2012 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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