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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan, whose guest this week is actress Imogen Stubbs. Plus the Story of Music in 50 Pieces with Howard Goodall.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach Keyboard Music played by Ralph Kirkpatrick.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, conductor Bernard Haitink.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the actress Imogen Stubbs. She has appeared in many plays throughout her career including spells at the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare company. She recently played Mennna in Hamish Pirie's production of Tim Price's new play Salt, Root and Roe for the Donmar Trafalgar which has been nominated for the Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in an Affiliate Theatre. Recent screen work includes a guest lead role in Parents, a comedy drama starring Sally Phillips, and a guest lead on Switch. Imogen is also a writer, co-writing and directing, Snow on Saturday, for which she won Best British Short Film. She has also written two plays, We Happy Few and Grace, and contributed extensively as a writer for newspapers and magazines.

11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No. 25: Mendelssohn: Hebrides Overture, Op. 26.

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Music Played

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Gigue (from Mozartiana, Op. 61)

    Performers: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • CAPRICCIO 10 200.

  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in C, D.591 (In the Italian style)

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • WARNER APEX 0927 40840 2.

  • 9.10: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto in F minor, BWV 1056

      Performers: Ralph Kirkpatrick (harpsichord), Lucerne Festival Strings, Rudolf Baumgartner (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 477 0132.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Rapsodie d'Auvergne, Op. 73

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA63321/2.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • Thomas Tallis

    Absterge Domine

    Performers: The Cardinall鈥檚 Musick, Andrew Carwood (director)

    • HYPERION CDA67548.

  • 9.50: Artist of the Week - Bernard Haitink

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Romance No. 2 in F, Op. 50

      Performers: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 422 274-2.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Gwendoline Overture

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • DG 447 751-2.

  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturnes

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 438 742.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Remembrances (Lyric Pieces, Op 71 No 7)

    Performers: Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

    • DG 437 522-2.

  • 10.30: Imogen Stubbs' Choices

    • George Gershwin

      'Bess, you is my woman now' and 'Oh! I can't sit down' (Porgy and Bess, Act II, scene 1)

      Performers: Cynthia Haymon (Bess), Willard White (Porgy), Marietta Simpson (Maria), Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, London Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

      • EMI CDS 749568-2.

  • Richard Rodney Bennett

    The Insect World

    Performers: New London Childrens鈥� Choir, Ronald Corp (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8572113.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Contrapunctus VIII (The Art of Fugue, BWV 1080)

    Performers: The Emerson String Quartet

    • DG 00289 477 8167.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      The Hebrides Overture (Fingal's Cave), Op. 26

      Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

      • SONY SBK46536.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Beatus Vir, RV 597

    Performers: Margaret Marshall (soprano), Ann Murray (mezzo soprano), Anne Collins (contralto), Anthony Rolfe-Johnson (tenor), Robert Holl (bass), Alastair Ross (organ), John Alldis Choir, English Chamber Orchestra, Vittorio Negri (conductor)

    • DECCA 442 9337.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Anacreon Overture

    Performers: The Lamoureux Orchestra, Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • DG 00289 477 8412.

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