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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Rudolf Kempe: A Testament; MP Diane Abbott's favourite pieces of music; Rob's Essential Choice: Bartok: Dance Suite, Sz 77.

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ1 late-night political discussion show This Week, with Andrew Neil and Michael Portillo.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Bartok: Dance Suite Sz77
London Symphony Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 4757711.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 23 Oct 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Bridge

    Miniatures, Set 1 No. 3: Allegretto

    Performers: Jack Liebeck (violin), Alexander Chaushian (cello), Ashley Wass (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.570792.
  • Bridge

    Two Poems for Orchestra: No. 2 'The Story of my heart'

    Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10729(6)X.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen Act V

    Performers: Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

    • AUVIDIS ES 8583.
  • 9.18: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Johann Strauss II

      Gesichten aus dem Wienerwald - Waltz Op. 325

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 121281.
  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Si dolce e 'l tormento

    Performers: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Ensemble Capella Mediterranea, Leonardo Garcia Alarcon (conductor)

    • NAÏVE V5286.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No. 13 in B flat

    Performers: Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

    • EMI 5865432.
  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Slavonic Dance Op. 46 No. 4 in F major

    Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON 34222 031.
  • Clara Schumann

    Siz Lieder Op.13 - Liebszauber; Sie lieben sich Beide

    Performers: Wolfgang Holzmair (baritone), Imogen Cooper (piano)

    • PHILIPS 4626102.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No.2

    Performers: Evgeny Kissin (piano), Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Dmitri Kitaienko (conductor)

    • RCA 09026683782.
  • 10.30: Diane Abbott's Choice

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Peter and the Wolf

      Performers: David Bowie (narrator), The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

      • RCA GD 60878.
  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Daphnis et Aegle - Menuet en Rondeau

    Performers: La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

    • ACCENT ACC 24271.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • BΓ©la BartΓ³k

      Dance Suite Sz77

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

      • DECCA 425 0392.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Sonata No.6 in G BWV1019

    Performers: Catherine Manson (violin), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS CC72560.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Elijah Op.70 - Part II opening

    Performers: Elly Ameling (soprano), Gisela Schroter (contralto), Hans Rotzsch (tenor), Theo Adam (bass), Leipzig Radio Choir, Gewandhausorchester, Wolfgang Sawallish (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4784614.

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  • Tue 23 Oct 2012 09:00

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