Monday - Rob Cowan with Terry Waite
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores, Artist of the Week: John Ogdon, the author Terry Waite and Schumann's Kreisleriana.
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the humanitarian and author, Terry Waite.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: In 27 Pieces - The Hilary Hahn Encores, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: John Ogdon
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is Terry Waite CBE. Terry is an English humanitarian and author. He was the Assistant for Anglican Communion Affairs for the then Archbishop of Canterbury, Robert Runcie. In 1980, he successfully negotiated the release of several hostages in Iran, and in 1984 he negotiated with Colonel Gaddafi for the release of the four remaining British hostages held in the Libyan Hostage Situation, and was again successful. He travelled to Lebanon to try to secure the release of several hostages, including the journalist John McCarthy, but was himself kidnapped and held captive from 1987 to 1991. Terry is president of the charity Y Care International (the YMCA's international development and relief agency) and patron of AbleChildAfrica and Habitat for Humanity Great Britain. He is also president of Emmaus UK and the International Musical Eisteddfod, as well as a patron of the Warrington Male Voice Choir.
11am
Schumann
Kreisleriana
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Johann Strauss II
Tritsch-Tratsch Polka
Orchestra: Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- Johann Strauss: Viennese Waltzes And Polkas.
- Sony.
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Franz Liszt
Liebestr盲ume (Notturno No 3 in A flat major)
Performer: John Ogdon.- EMI.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.39
Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.- NIMBUS.
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Valentin Silvestrov
Two Pieces
Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.- DG.
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Transports of Delight
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Robert Schumann
Marchenerzahlungen, Op.132
Performer: Gervase de Peyer. Performer: Cecil Aronowitz. Performer: Lamar Crowson.- EMI.
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Ronald Binge
Sailing By
Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.- Hyperion.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No.1 in G minor, Op.25
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Aldo Ceccato.- EMI.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Cantabile, Op.17
Performer: Leonid Kogan. Performer: Andrei Mytnik.- TESTAMENT.
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Edward Elgar
Nimrod ('Enigma' Variations Op.36)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Passacaglia & Fugue, BWV582
Performer: Marie鈥怌laire Alain.- Erato.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Nine Epigrams (No 5)
Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.- Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
- Hyperion.
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Robert Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op 16
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Sony.
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Franz Liszt
Die Ideale
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Kurt Masur.- EMI.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Transports of Delight
The topsail schooner "Charlotte Rhodes", as featured in the classic TV series The Onedin Line.
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The music played:
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Khatchaturian
Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
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