Tuesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Wagner: Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde).
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live CSOR 901 1103
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Ida Haendel.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the Geoffrey Robertson QC. Founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, Geoffrey Robertson serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a 'distinguished jurist' member of the United Nations Justice Council, having served as the first President of the Special Court in Sierra Leone and He has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law in the European Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the Privy Council and Commonwealth courts.
11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No.33: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod.
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Trad. Bohemian (from Ondrej Hulka鈥檚 collection from Zlat谩 Koruna)
U kl谩stera pole (There are fields around the monastery)
Performers: Musica Bohemica, Jaroslav Krcek (director)
- SUPRAPHON SU4098 2.
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9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Prokofiev arr. Joe Kreines
Three scenes from Romeo and Juliet
Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
- CSOR 901 1103.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu Op. 90/1
Performers: Friedrich Gulda (piano)
- PRICE-LESS D14201.
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John Dowland
Come again: sweet love doth now invite
Performers: Paul Agnew (tenor), Christopher Wilson (lute)
- METRONOME MET CD 1010.
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9.30:
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Today's Brainteaser
Critics' Corner
Performers: Mozart was writing to his wife Constanze
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Lambert
Aubade H茅ro茂que
Performers: English Northern Philharmonic, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
- HYPERION CDA 66565.
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9.40: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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Maurice Ravel - Pi猫ce en forme de Habanera
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Mazurka in D flat op 30 no 3
Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)
- DG 477 953 2.
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William Walton
Violin Concerto in B minor
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
- EMI CDM 764 202 2.
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10.30: Geoffrey Robertson QC's Choices
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Gaetano Donizetti
"O giusto cielo鈥l dolce suono" 鈥� Scene 2 Act 3 of Lucia di Lammermoor ('Mad scene')
Performers: Joan Sutherland (soprano), Orchestra e coro dell鈥橝ccademia di Santa Celilia, Rome, John Pritchard (conductor)
- DECCA 467 588 2.
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Georges Bizet
Entr'act to Act 3 of Carmen
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 419 636 2.
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11am: The Story of Music
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Richard Wagner
Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
- EMI CDM 763 617 2.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Act 2 scene 5 from The Coronation of Poppea
Performers: City of London Baroque Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)
- VIRGIN CLASSICS VM 561 783 2.
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Lecuona
Ante El Escorial & Granada
Performers: Clara Rodriguez (piano)
- NIMBUS NI 6214.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 7 'Le Midi'
Performers: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director)
- ARCHIV 423 098 2.
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