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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Dance Mix featuring the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Artist of the Week: Raphael Wallfisch; 20 Great British Works: Handel: Messiah (Part 3).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Dance Mix featuring the Baltimore Symphony conducted by David Zinman

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, the cellist Raphael Wallfisch

10.30am
This week Rob's guest is the writer and clinical psychologist, Frank Tallis. He has held lecturing posts at the Institute of Psychiatry and King's College, London. He has written self help manuals (How to Stop Worrying, Understanding Obsessions and Compulsions) non-fiction for the general reader (Changing Minds, Hidden Minds, Love Sick), academic text books and papers in international journals. He is also a successful novelist, with works including Vienna Blood and Fatal Lies, part of the popular Liebermann Paper detective series, set in Vienna in the early 20th century, a time when the foundations of modern forensic science were being laid.

11am
20 Great British Works

Handel: Messiah (Part 3)
Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), John Wakefield (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass)
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Colin Davis (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cythere

    Performers: Pascal Roge and Jean-Philippe Collard (2 pianos)

    • DECCA 443 968-2.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Ballet from 'The Perfect Fool'

    Performers: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHSA5069.

  • 9.14: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Michael Torke

      Charcoal (from Black and White)

      Performers: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)

      • ARGO 444 454-2.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    For lo, I raise up

    Performers: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge, James Vivian (organ), Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    • EMI 5 55535 2.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Raphael Wallfisch

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Pezzo capriccioso Op.62

      Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

      Performers: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), English Chamber Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

      • CHANDOS 6552.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D for 2 trumpets, timpani, strings and continuo

    Performers: John Wallace, John Miller (trumpets), English String Orchestra, William Boughton (conductor)

    • NIMBUS NI5189.

  • 9.50: Artist of the Week - Raphael Wallfisch

    • Gerald Finzi

      Cello Concerto, Op. 40

      Performers: Raphael Wallfisch (cello), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)

      • CHANDOS 10425.

  • 10.30: Frank Tallis' Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Die Zauberflote: "Der H枚lle Rache kocht in meinem Herzen"

      Performers: Lucia Popp (The Queen of the Night - soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • EMI CMS 76991-2.

  • 笔茅谤辞迟颈苍

    Viderunt Omnes

    Performers: The Hilliard Ensemble

    • ECM 837751-2.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scherzo, Op 40 No 11

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • REGIS RRC 1354.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • George Frideric Handel

      Messiah: Part III

      Performers: Heather Harper (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), John Wakefield (tenor), John Shirley-Quirk (bass), London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 464 703-2.

  • 11.33am

    • Ireland

      A Downland Suite

      Performers: City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN9376.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Machines an March (Things to Come)

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir Arthur Bliss (conductor)

    • DUTTON 2CDBP9818.

Broadcast

  • Tue 11 Jun 2013 09:00
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