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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Suppe and Auber Overtures; Artists of the Week: Amadeus Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Wagner: Die Walkure (excerpt).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Suppe & Auber Overtures - Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray, MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434309

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Amadeus Quartet.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the author, journalist and radio/television presenter Martin Sixsmith. From 1980 to 1997 Martin was a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ correspondent in Moscow, Washington, Brussels and Warsaw. He then worked for the Government as Director of Communications and Press Secretary first to Harriet Harman, then to Alistair Darling and finally to Stephen Byers.

He is the author of two novels: Spin, and I Heard Lenin Laugh. Martin's recent non-fiction books include The Lost Child of Philomena Lee (2009); Putin's Oil (2010); and Russia: A 1,000-Year Chronicle of the Wild East (2011). In February 2008 he worked on two ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ documentaries exploring the legacy of the KGB in today's Russia and also presented a ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ radio programme, The Snowy Streets of St. Petersburg, about artists and writers who fled the former Eastern bloc. Most recently, in 2011, he presented Russia: The Wild East, a 50-part history of Russia for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4. Martin works as an advisor to the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ political sitcom The Thick of It.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice

Wagner: Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music (Die WalkΓΌre)
Hans Hotter (Wotan)
Birgit Nilsson (BrΓΌnnhilde)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Leopold Ludwig (conductor)
TESTAMENT SBT 1201.

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Thu 17 Jan 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No.29 in A major, K.201

  • Jean Sibelius

    Arabesque, Op. 76 No. 9

    Performers: Havard Gimse (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.555363.

  • 9.01am

    • Suk

      Fantastic Scherzo, Op. 25

      Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • DECCA 466 443-2.

  • 9.16am

    • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

      Passacaille d'Armide

      Performers: CafΓ© Zimmermann

      • ALPHA 814.

  • 9.21: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Franz von SuppΓ¨

      Morning, Noon and Night in Vienna: Overture

      Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)

      • MERCURY 434 309-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Shostakovich orch. Tamas Batiashvili

      Lyrical Waltz (Seven Dolls' Dances)

      Performers: Lisa Batiashvili (violin), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

      • DG 477 9299.

  • 9.35am

    • Robert Schumann

      Manfred Overture

      Performers: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

      • DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 0078.

  • 9.49am

    • Crecquillon

      Andreas Christi famulus

      Performers: Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (director)

      • GIMELL CDGIM 033.

  • 9.58am

    • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Islamey

      Performers: Lang Lang (piano)

      • TELARC CD-80524.

  • 10.07: Artists of the Week - The Amadeus Quartet

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in D major, Op. 76 No. 5

      Performers: Amadeus Quartet

      • DG 415 867-2.

  • 10.30: Martin Sixsmith's Choice

    • Johannes Brahms

      Ein Deutsches Requiem: Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit; aber ich will euch wieder sehen

      Performers: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Singverein der Gesellschaft der Musikfreude of Vienna, Vienna Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • EMI CDH 761010-2.

  • 10.43: Martin Sixsmith's Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat major, K.595 – Larghetto [2nd mvt]

      Performers: Clifford Curzon (piano), English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 4389.

  • 10.54am

    • Halvorsen

      Entry of the Boyars

      Performers: Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

      • NAXOS 8.557017.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Richard Wagner

      Wotan's Farewell and Magic Fire Music (Die Walkure): "Doch fort muss ich jetzt… Leb wohl"

      Performers: Hans Hotter (Wotan, baritone), Birgit Nilsson (Brunnhilde, soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Leopold Ludwig (conductor)

      • EMI 509703-2.

  • 11.19am

    • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

      Mazurkas, Op.30

      Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

      • DG 477 9530.

  • 11.28am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No.29 in A, K.201

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)

      • DG 479 0725.

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  • Thu 17 Jan 2013 09:00
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