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Tuesday - Rob Cowan with Joanne Harris

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - Complete Recordings 1991-2007; Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Liszt: Orpheus.

with Rob Cowan and his guest, the author Joanne Harris.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - The Complete Recordings 1991-2007, WARNER. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet.

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the author Joanne Harris, best known for writing the award-winning novel Chocolat (later turned into a highly successful film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp). The book was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and due to its success in 2012 Joanne became one of only four female members of the "Millionnaires' Club," the elite group of authors who have achieved a million sales of one book in the UK since records began. She has written two more novels in the Chocolat series: The Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Cur茅, as well as two French cookbooks (co-written with Fran Warde). In 2007 she published Runemarks, a fantasy novel based on Norse mythology, aimed at both children and adults. A sequel, Runelight, followed in 2011, and Joanne continued with the Norse mythology theme in her most recent novel, The Gospel of Loki, published earlier this year.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Liszt
Orpheus
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Who鈥檚 Singing?

    Singer: anon.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Keyboard Concerto no.1 in D minor, BWV1052

    Performer: Lukas Foss. Ensemble: Elysium String Quartet. Performer: John Feeney.
    • Elysium Recordings.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No. 3

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein. Orchestra: Symphony of the Air. Conductor: Josef Krips.
    • RCA Living Stereo.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture: Zur Namensfeier

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.1 - iii. Feierlich und gemessen, ohne zu schleppen

    Orchestra: Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • Alfredo Catalani

    "Ebben? Ne andro lontana" (La Wally)

    Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Turin Teatro Regio Orchestra. Conductor: John Mauceri.
    • DECCA.
  • Charles Gounod

    Cleopatra鈥檚 Dance (Faust)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury Living Presence.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quintet, Op.97

    Ensemble: Talich Quartet.
    • LA DOLCE VITA.
  • M. Camargo Guarnieri

    Brazilian Dance

    Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.
    • Mercury Living Presence.
  • Franz Liszt

    Orpheus - symphonic poem S.98

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No.1 鈥楥lassical鈥

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolai Malko.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Calme des nuits (2 Choruses Op.68)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    L茅gende Op.17

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Warner.
  • William Wigthorpe

    Rowland

    Ensemble: English Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble. Conductor: William Lyons.
    • Flower of Cities All - Music in London 1580-1620.
    • DEUX-ELLES.
    • 15.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who's Singing?

Cleopatra, from Handel's opera, Giulio Cesare.

The music played:

Handel
鈥淰鈥檃doro pupille鈥 (Giulio Cesare)
Barbara Schlick听 (soprano)
Concerto K枚ln
R茅ne Jacobs (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI听HMC901385.87

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