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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Rudolf Kempe: A Testament; MP Diane Abbott's favourite pieces of music; Schumann: Etudes symphoniques, Op 13.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Rudolf Kempe: A Testament TESTAMENT SBT 121281

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and Rob's recommended performance by the next pianist in Peter Donohoe's survey of 50 Great Pianists.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the MP for Hackney North and Stoke Newington, Diane Abbott. In 1987 Diane made history by becoming the first black woman ever elected to the British Parliament. She has since built a distinguished career as a parliamentarian, broadcaster and commentator.

Diane is founder of the London Schools and the Black Child initiative, which aims to raise educational achievement levels among black children. She hosts an annual conference for educators, children and their parents and an annual academic awards ceremony. In 2008 she was awarded the Spectator/Threadneedle Speech of the Year Award and a Human Rights Award from Liberty. Two years later, she was re-elected in her constituency of Hackney North and Stoke Newington, and doubled her majority on an increased turnout. She has served on the Treasury Select Committee of the House of Commons, the Foreign Affairs Select Committee, and has recently set up a special parliamentary committee investigating gun crime. She is currently Shadow Minister for Public Health.

Diane has delivered speeches at colleges and universities in the UK and the USA, and appears regularly on radio and TV and until recently was a regular, weekly guest on the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ1 late-night political discussion show This Week, with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

11am
Schumann: Etudes symphoniques Op.13
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Sorochintsy Fair: Gopak

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Geoffrey Simon (conductor)

    • CALA RECORDS 1030.

  • Heinrich Hofmann

    Kaleidoscope Op.40 No.4

    Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

    • NIMBUS NIM 5020.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Unforgettable Year 1919 - Suite Op. 89a 'The assault on beautiful Gorky

    Performers: Dmitri Alexev (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

    • EMI CD CFP 4547.

  • Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Leonore Overture No.3 Op.72a

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 121281.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Mystery Piece

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Preludes Op.23 No.2 in B flat and No.5 in G minor

    Performers: Peter Donohoe's latest Great Pianist

  • EugΓ¨ne Bozza

    Scherzo Op.48

    Performers: The Galliard Ensemble

    • DEUX ELLES DXL1149.

  • Bach arr. Busoni

    Herr Gott, nun schleuss den Himmel auf BWV617

    Performers: Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67324.

  • Franz Schubert

    Sehnsucht D516

    Performers: Elly Ameling (soprano), Rudolf Janson (piano)

    • PHILIPS 4784614.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Concerto No.2

    Performers: Emil Gilels (piano), Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

    • EMI 569506.

  • 10.30: Diane Abbott's Choices

    • Georges Bizet

      Carmen Overture

      Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Sir George Solti (conductor)

      • DECCA 4213002.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Ballade No.4 in F minor Op.52

    Performers: Nikita Magaloff (piano)

    • PHILIPS 4268172.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Suite No.3 in G Op.55

    Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • DECCA 4784614.

  • 11am:

    • Robert Schumann

      Etudes Symphoniques Op.13

      Performers: Alexander Romanovsky (piano)

      • DECCA 4766208.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ein musikalisches Spass K522

    Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Otmar Suitner (conductor)

    • Berlin Classics 0185552BC.

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