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Monday - Rob Cowan with Oliver James

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Bach Transcriptions; Proms Artist of the Week: The Tallis Scholars; Rob's Essential Choice: Saint-Saens: Symphony No 2.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is the clinical and occupational psychologist, Oliver James. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Place That Piece.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach Transcriptions featuring Alexis Weissenberg and Bruno Leonardo Gelber. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: the Tallis Scholars

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the clinical and occupational psychologist, Oliver James, who also works as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His work includes various studies of modern-day living (the books Affluenza, Office Politics and Britain on the Couch - which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4). He has written best-selling guides to parenting, and also on how to develop emotional health, and an approach to dementia (Contented Dementia).

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Saint-Saens
Symphony No.2
ORTF National Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • William Walton

    The Wise Virgins: "Ah! How Ephemeral" [from Bach's Cantata No.26]

    Orchestra: Concert Arts Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • EMI.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in E minor, BWV 555

    Performer: Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Music Arranger: Alexander Siloti.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, joy of man's desiring

    Music Arranger: Myra Hess. Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • anon

    Today's Brainteaser - Place that Piece

    Orchestra: anon.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor, RV105

    Ensemble: Collegium Pro Musica.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Scherzo

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei, Deus

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
  • Edward Elgar

    Elegy

    Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Hunters; Procession (Peter and the Wolf)

    Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc Dimittis (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)

    Singer: Paul Phoenix. Performer: James Watson. Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble.
    • Guild.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Symphony No.2 in A minor, Op.55

    Conductor: Jean Martinon. Orchestra: Orchestre National de l'ORTF.
    • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chaconne in D minor (Partita, BWV1004)

    Performer: Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • EMI.
  • Max Bruch

    Swedish Dances, Op.63 Nos 4-7

    Orchestra: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.
    • CPO.

Today's Brainteaser answer: Place that Piece

The answer was the Fens.

The music was:

Vaughan Williams

In the Fen Country

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Bryden Thomson (conductor)

CHANDOS CHAN9775

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