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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Oliver James

With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Bach Transcriptions; Proms Artist of the Week: The Tallis Scholars; Rob's Essential Choice: Haydn: Symphony No 44 in E minor (Trauer).

Rob Cowan's guest this week is the clinical and occupational psychologist, Oliver James. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Who am I?
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
Haydn
Symphony No.44 in E minor, 'Trauer'
RIAS Symphony Orchestra
Ferenc Fricsay (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Erno Dohnanyi

    String Quartet No.1 in A major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Psophos Quartet.
    • AR RE-SE.
  • Georges Bizet

    Farandole (Incidental music to L'Arlesienne, Act III, tableau 4)

    Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Choir: Choir of Lyon National Opera.
    • NAIVE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet, K.370

    Performer: Fumiaki Miyamoto. Ensemble: Mannheim String Quartet.
    • NOVALIS.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude in B minor

    Music Arranger: Alexander Siloti. Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.
    • EMI.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Oberon: Overture

    Performer: Otto Klemperer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Albumblatt

    Performer: Alexander Markovich. Performer: Sergei Nakariakov.
    • TELDEC.
  • Francisco Guerrero

    Ave Maria

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Joachim Raff

    Romeo and Juliet - overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • CHANDOS.
  • William Herschel

    Symphony no.2 in D major

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • John Taverner

    Magnificat 脿 6

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips.
    • GIMELL.
  • Claude Debussy

    Rhapsody for Alto Saxophone

    Performer: Alexandre Doisy. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.
    • NAXOS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my Prayer... Oh for the wings of a Dove

    Performer: Andrew Lucas. Singer: Jeremy Budd. Choir: Choristers of St. Paul's Cathedral. Performer: John Scott.
    • Hyperion.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    A Modern Major General (The Pirates of Penzance)

    Singer: George Baker. Choir: Glyndebourne Chorus. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • EMI.
  • Malcolm Arnold

    4 Scottish dances (Op.59), no.2; Reel (Vivace)

    Conductor: Arnold, Malcolm. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Malcolm Arnold: English, Irish, Scottish & Cornish Dances: LPO/Arnold.
    • Lyrita.
    • 16.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.44 in E minor 'Trauer'

    Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay. Orchestra: RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.
  • Claude Debussy

    Fetes galantes

    Performer: Gonzalo Soriano. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles.
    • EMI.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who am I?

The composer and astronomer, William Herschel.

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