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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval - Folk Songs; Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin; Rob's Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Concerto.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval ? Folk Songs, ECM 476 6179. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

10.30am
This week is National Storytelling Week (with National Libraries' Day this Saturday, 8th February) and Rob's guest is the award-winning author, Kate Atkinson. Kate's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1985, and she has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. Her novel Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster, while When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year. Her latest novel, Life After Life, recently won the 2013 Costa Novel Award. Kate was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 2011 Birthday Honours, for services to literature.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Schumann
Piano Concerto
Alfred Brendel (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Kurt Sanderling (conductor)
PHILIPS.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Béla Bartók

    Three Hungarian Folksongs from Csík District (No 3 Poco vivace)

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Andrew Armstrong.
    • Chandos.
  • Trad.

    Tjovane [The Thieves]

    Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Airs de ballet Nos 1 and 4 (Jérusalem)

    Orchestra: La Scala Philharmonic. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita for solo violin in D minor, BWV 1004: Chaconne

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Onyx.
  • Anon.

    Today's Brainteaser - Originally Written For...?

  • Jacques Ibert

    Three Short Pieces

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Sony.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Exsultate Jubilate K.165

    Performer: Barbara Bonney (soprano). Performer: Concentus Musicus Wien. Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
    • WARNER.
  • Franz Lachner

    Wind Quintet No. 2

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.
  • Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in G minor BWV861

    Performer: Pierre Hantai (harpsichord).
    • MIRARE.
  • Trad.

    Blow the Wind Southerly

    Singer: Kathleen Ferrier.
    • Decca.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 60, 'Leningrad' (2nd mvt)

    Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Kurt Masur.
    • Naive.
  • Shebalin

    Scherzo from Quartet No.5 'Slavonic' Op.33

    Performer: Borodin Quartet.
    • TELDEC.
  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Kurt Sanderling.
    • Philips.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Memento, Domine, David (Selva morale et spirituale)

    Performer: The Sixteen. Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor).
    • CORO.
  • Frederick Delius

    Eventyr

    Performer: Hallé. Performer: Vernon Handley (conductor).
    • EMI.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Originally Written For

Answer: String Quintet.

The music played:

Mozart adapted. Paul Dessau
String Quintet in E flat, K.614 – IV: Allegro
Staatskapelle Berlin
Otmar Suitner (conductor)
BRILLIANT CLASSICS 9440/1

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