Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Nigel Williams
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: My Violin Legends, with Pavel Sporcl and Petr Jirikovsky; Artist of the Week: Charles Munch; Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 1.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: My Violin Legends - Pavel Šporcl (violin) & Petr Jiríkovský (piano), SUPRAPHON SU41412. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30 - today: Originally Written For.
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Munch
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Nigel Williams. Nigel's most successful work has been his script for the 2005 TV drama Elizabeth I (starring Helen Mirren), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His novels include the bestselling 'Wimbledon Trilogy' - The Wimbledon Poisoner, They Came from SW19 and East of Wimbledon - the first of which he adapted into a successful television film. He won a television BAFTA for his screen adaptation of William Horwood's Skallagrigg, and was the primary scriptwriter for the second season of Jim Henson's Storyteller series. As a playwright, Nigel has adapted William Golding's Lord of the Flies for the stage, and his first play, Class Enemy, has been translated into more than thirty languages.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 'Winter Daydreams'
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor).
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Music Played
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Robert Schumann
Kinderszenen, Op. 15: Am Kamin
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.- Sony.
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František Drdla
Souvenir
Performer: Pavel Šporcl. Performer: Petr Jiříkovský.- Supraphon.
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Johann Ludwig Bach
Suite in G
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- Archiv.
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Jean Sibelius
Swan of Tuonela (from Lemminkainen Suite, Op. 22 No. 3)
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.- Sony.
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Anon.
Today's Brainteaser - Originally Written For...?
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Robert Schumann
Manfred Overture
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No. 4 in A, Op. 90 'Italian'
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA.
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Orlando Gibbons
This is the record of John
Singer: Rogers Covey‐Crump. Choir: The Choir of Magdalen College, Oxford. Ensemble: Fretwork. Conductor: Bill Ives.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Fantasy in C minor, K 475
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- Philips.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 1 'Winter Daydreams'
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Robert Schumann
Fantasiestücke Op.12 - Warum? & Auschwung
Performer: Klara Würtz (piano).- BRILLIANT.
Today's Brainteaser Answer
Originally Written For
Dvorak's String Quartet No. 12 'American', arranged for wind quintet.
The music played:
Dvorak (arr. David Walter)
String Quartet No.12 in F Op.96 ‘American’: Allegro ma non troppo
Royal Flemish Philharmonic Wood Quintet
ROYAL FLEMISH PHILARMONIC RFP 005
Broadcast
- Tue 14 Jan 2014 09:0091ȱ Radio 3