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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Leopold Stokowski: The Stereo Collection; Artist of the Week: Shura Cherkassky; Essential Choice: Falla: The Three Cornered Hat (excerpts).

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
Falla: The Three Cornered Hat (excerpts)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
EMI CDM769037-2.

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Thu 1 Nov 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Air in G minor (an arrangement of an Air from 'Abdelazar)

    Performers: Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

    • APARTE AP 027.

  • Edward German

    Nell Gwyn Overture

    Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)

    • AVIE AV2194.

  • 9.09: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Joseph Canteloube

      Ba茂l猫ro (Songs of the Auvergne)

      Performers: Anna Moffo (soprano), American Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.

  • 9.15am

    • Bach arr. Stokowski

      Toccata and Fugue in D minor, BWV565

      Performers: Leopold Stokowski and his Symphony Orchestra

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Where am I?

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

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassky

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Waltz in D major, Op. 42 No. 2

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • DECCA 448 063-2.

  • 9.36am

    • Coates

      Cinderella

      Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)

      • AVIE AV2070.

  • 9.54am

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto for oboe and bassoon in G major, RV 545

      Performers: Zefiro [Paolo Grazzi (oboe), Alberto Grazzi (bassoon)], Alfredo Bernardini (director)

      • ASTREE NA脧VE E8679.

  • 10.05am

    • Sullivan

      Ivanhoe: Act 1 scene 2

      Performers: Geraldine McGreevey (soprano), Toby Spence (tenor), 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales, David-Lloyd Jones (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN10578(3).

  • 10.18: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassky

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Andante and Rondo Capriccioso, Op. 14

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • 91热爆 LEGENDS 91热爆L 4254-2.

  • 10.24am

    • Chaminade

      Autrefois, Op.87

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • DECCA 448 063-2.

  • 10.30: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      The Lark Ascending

      Performers: Pinchas Zuckerman (violin), English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • DG 419 748-2.

  • 10.51: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • Maurice Ravel

      Piano Concerto in G: 2nd movement, Adagio assai

      Performers: C茅cile Ousset (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra with Peter Walden (cor anglais), Simon Rattle (conductor)

      • EMI CDC 7 54158.

  • 11.02am

    • John Dowland

      Mrs Vaux's Jig

      Performers: Julian Bream (lute)

      • DG 477 7550.

  • 11.05am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Falla

      The Three-Cornered Hat

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 769037-2.

  • 11.24am

    • Alkan

      Le Festin d'Esope (Douze Etudes, Op.39 No.12)

      Performers: Raymond Lewenthal (piano)

      • RCA 09026 63310-2.

  • 11.34am

    • Moross

      Sonata for piano duet and string quartet in G major

      Performers: Lyric Arts Quartet of Houston, Nancy Weens & John Jensen (piano)

      • BAY CITIES BCD1014.

  • 11.54am

    • Arensky

      Polonaise from Suite No.3

      Performers: USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

      • OLYMPIA OCD 136.

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  • Thu 1 Nov 2012 09:00
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