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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval - Folk Songs; Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin; Rob's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor).

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:
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'
Mindru Katz (piano)
Halle Orchestra
John Barbirolli (conductor)
THE BARBIROLLI SOCIETY.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    惭补濒补驳耻别帽补

    Performer: Laurent Korcia. Performer: Haruko Ueda. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.
    • Naive.
  • anon

    Rolandskvadet

    Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Tantum Ergo in D, K.197

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Warner.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'

    Performer: Mindru Katz. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • The Barbirolli Society.
  • Alfredo Catalani

    La Wally: 'Ebben? Ne andro lontana'

    Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • EMI.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101 no.7

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Sony.
  • Franz Liszt

    Un Sospiro (3 Concert studies)

    Performer: Jorge Bolet.
    • Decca.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No. 19 in C, K.465 'Dissonance': Allegro molto

    Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.
    • DG.
  • Carl Nielsen

    Wind Quintet, Op 43

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Sony.
  • Richard Strauss

    Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • RCO LIVE.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Divertimento in B flat major, TWV 50:23

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Archiv.
  • Richard Wagner

    Die Meistersinger von N眉rnberg (Prelude)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who am I?

Answer: Till Eulenspiegel

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