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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

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. 35: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 20 Feb 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Wedgwood

    Dragonfly

    Performers: Uchenna Ngwe (oboe), Philip Cornwell (piano)

    • OBOE CLASSICS CC2026.
  • Richard Wagner

    Prelude: Die Meistersinger

    Performers: The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

    • SONY CLASSICAL MYK 42597.
  • Scott Joplin

    The Easy Winners

    Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: André Previn.

    Performers: Joshua Rifkin (piano)

    • EMI 082934 2.
  • 9.16: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Giovanni Gabrieli

      Sacrae Symphoniae No. 6: Sonata Pian e forte; Canzon duodecimi toni a 10; Canzon spetimi t

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass

      • CSOR 901 1103.
  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser - Spot the Openings

      Tchaikovsky - Scene from Swan Lake; Schubert - Die Forelle (The Trout); Coates - By the Sl

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel

    • Paganini ed. Kreisler

      La Clochette Op. 7

      Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 1259.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Two pieces from Scarlatti, Op. 17

    Performers: Wind Section of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra

    • PRAGA PR 250 090.
  • Eccles

    A Division on a Ground by Mr John Eckles

    Performers: Musicke and Mirth

    • RAMEE RAM 1204.
  • 9.56: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel

    • Édouard Lalo

      Symphonie Espanole

      Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 3677 2.
  • 10.30: Geoffrey Robertson QC's Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus

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

      • DG 415 833 2.
  • Weill arr. Blitzstein

    Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny

    Performers: Lotte Lenya (voice), Original Cast Recording, Samuel Matlowsky (musical director)

    • POLYDOR 8202602.
  • Novello

    We'll gather lilacs

    Performers: Richard Tauber (tenor)

    • MUSIC FOR PLEASURE CDDL 1242.
  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Mussorgsky orch. Ravel

      Pictures at an Exhibition

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • RCA 88765414972 -09.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Quel guardo il cavalier… (Don Pasquale)

    Performers: Mirella Freni (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccard Muti (conductor)

    • EMI 416 494 2.
  • 11.45am

    • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

      Suite: The Adventures of Robin Hood

      Performers: National Philharmonic, Charles Gerhardt (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 60966 2.
  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Suite: The Adventures of Robin Hood

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  • Wed 20 Feb 2013 09:00

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