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Friday - 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: Bruckner: Te Deum.

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
Bruckner: Te Deum
Maria Stader (soprano)
Sieglinde Wagner (contralto)
Ernst Haefliger (tenor)
Peter Lagger (bass)
Choir of the Deutschen Oper Berlin
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Eugen Jochum (conductor)
DG 457 7432.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 2 Nov 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Danse des Sauvages (Les Indes Galantes)

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 479 0374.
  • 9.02am

    • Richard Strauss

      Piano Trio No. 1 in A major, TrV 53

      Performers: Amelia Piano Trio

      • NAXOS 8.570896.
  • 9.19: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2

      Performers: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.
  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassky

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Nocturne, Op. 19 No. 4

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • DECCA 448 063-2.
  • 9.37am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No. 28 in C major, K.200

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 48 063.
  • 10.00am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No. 28 in C major, K.200

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 48 063.
  • 10.08: Artist of the Week - Shura Cherkassky

    • Franz Liszt

      Fantasia on Hungarian Folk Melodies

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

      • DG 453 130-2.
  • 10.25am

    • George Frideric Handel

      Menuets (Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351)

      Performers: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • SONY CLASSICAL 88691 91685-2.
  • 10.30: Kate Mosse's Choice

    • Smyth

      The Wreckers: Overture

      Performers: Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Gibson (conductor)

      • EMI CDB 7 67753 2.
  • 10.45: Rob's personal shopper for Kate Mosse

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Symphony No. 7: 4th movement, Vivace

      Performers: Moscow Radio Symphony Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

      • MELODIYA MEL CD 10 01797.
  • 10.57am

    • Trad. Volga Tartars

      Fazyla Spring

      Performers: G. Gafiatullina (vocal), N. Vildanov & F. Iskhakov (bayans)

      • MELODIYA MEL CD 30 10845.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Anton Bruckner

      Te Deum

      Performers: Maria Stader (soprano), Sieglinde Wagner (contralto), Ernst Haefliger (tenor), Peter Lagger (bass), Bavarian Radio Chorus, Choir of the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jochum (conductor)

      • DG 457 743-2.
  • 11.23am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto in G, K.453

      Performers: Fredrich Gulda (piano), Orchestra, Paul Angerer (conductor)

      • DECCA 480 3442.
  • 11.54am

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Sicilienne

      Performers: Alban Gerhardt (cello), Cecile Licad (piano)

      • HYPERION CDA67872.

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  • Fri 2 Nov 2012 09:00

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