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Thursday - 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: Strauss: Four Last Songs.

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
Rob's Essential Choice

Strauss: Four Last Songs
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Sir Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 4305112.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 25 Oct 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Trad.

    Tom Brigg's Jig

    Performers: Jordi Savall (celtic viol)

    • ALIA VOX 9866.
  • Alwyn

    Suite of Scottish Dances

    Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.570704.
  • Franz Schubert

    Moments musicaux D.780: Moderato; Allegro vivace

    Performers: Valery Afanassiev (piano)

    • ECM 4764580.
  • 9.17: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

      Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: IstvΓ΅n KertΓ©sz.

      Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)

      • TESTAMENT SBT 121281.
  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      What am I?

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

  • Conradin Kreutzer

    Grand Septet in E flat Op. 62: Minuet

    Performers: Nash Ensemble

    • CRD 3390.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Six Humoresques for Violin and Orchestra Op. 89: Nos. 3 & 6

    Performers: Ilya Gringolts (violin), Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • DG 474 8142.
  • Victoria

    Salve Regina

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO CORSACD16033.
  • Gustav Holst

    The Planets - Neptune

    Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra and Women's Chorus, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 4175532.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Variations on a theme of Corelli Op.42

    Performers: Alexander Melnikov (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901978.
  • Geminiani

    Concerto Grosso Op. 5 No. 11 in E

    Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (conductor)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907261.62.
  • 10.30: Diane Abbott's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Keyboard Concerto No. 7 in G minor BWV 1058

      Performers: Andrei Gavrilov (piano), Academy of Saint-Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

      • EMI 5726412.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Madame Butterfly: "Un bel Di Vedremo"

    Performers: Maria Callas (soprano), Milan Teatro alla Scala Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • EMI 5562982.
  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Richard Strauss

      Four Last Songs

      Performers: Kiri Te Kanawa (soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

      • DECCA 4305112.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Piano Trio No.2 in C minor Op.66

    Performers: David Oistrakh (violin), Sviatoslav Knushevitsky (cello), Lev Oberin (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 9101.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Flavius Bertarious 'Dormi pure, amato figlio'

    Performers: Nina Bernsteiner (soprano), Academia Montis Regalis, Alessandro de Marchi (conductor)

    • DHM 88691926052.

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  • Thu 25 Oct 2012 09:00

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