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Thursday - 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 Strauss's Macbeth.

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
Rob's Essential Choice
Strauss
Macbeth
Dresden Staatskapelle
Rudolf Kempe (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Robert Herrick

    Passing By

    Singer: Thomas S. Allen. Composer: Edward Purcell. Performer: Malcolm Martineau.
    • Hyperion.
  • Lena Gilbert Ford

    Till the boys come home

    Singer: Thomas S. Allen. Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Composer: Ivor Novello.
    • Hyperion.
  • Anton Holzmann

    Feuert los March, Op.103

    Ensemble: hr brass. Director: Lutz K枚hler.
    • Capriccio.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andante favori, WoO57

    • EMI.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Scherzo capriccioso

    Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    脡tude de concert, Op 35 No 2, 'Automne'

    Performer: John Ogdon.
    • EMI.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade No.1 in G minor, Op.23

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • Sony.
  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes - book 1, no.9; La Serenade interrompue

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Debussy, Preludes etc.: Jean-Yves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 9.
  • Ivor Gurney

    Sleep (Five Elizabethan Songs)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • EMI.
  • Max Richter

    Mercy

    Performer: Hilary Hahn. Performer: Cory Smythe.
    • DG.
  • Joseph Steffan

    Concerto for fortepiano in B flat major

    Performer: Andreas Staier. Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln.
    • TELDEC.
  • Riccardo Drigo

    Esmerelda: Pas de deux

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca Eloquence.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Valse in E major, Op.34 No.1

    Performer: John Ogdon.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fin ch'han dal vino (Don Giovanni) arr. Bernardini for 13 wind instruments

    Ensemble: Zefiro. Music Arranger: Bernardini. Conductor: Alfredo Bernardini.
    • Arcana.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Una voco poco fa (Barber of Seville)

    Singer: Roberta Peters. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf.
    • Sony.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Pohjola's Daughter

    Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra. Conductor: Horst Stein.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Macbeth

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • EMI.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La forza del destino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • Warner.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Where am I?

New York Metropolitan Opera House on Broadway. It is part of the Lincoln Center performing arts complex.

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