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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Couperin: harpsichord works; Faure: Cello Sonata No 2 in G minor, Op 117. Dvorak: Symphony No 8 in G, Op 88.

With Rob Cowan

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Couperin: works for harpsichord played by Gustav Leonhardt - PHILIPS 4544702

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, cellist and conductor Mstislav Rostropovich.

10.30am
Friday 25th January is Burns Night and Rob Cowan's guest this week is the Scottish writer Janice Galloway, whose works include novels, short stories, prose-poetry, non-fiction and libretti. Her novel The Trick is to Keep Breathing (1990) is now widely regarded as a contemporary Scottish classic, and was shortlisted for numerous awards, winning the MIND/Allan Lane Book of the Year. Her memoirs, This is Not About Me (2008) was shortlisted for the Biographer's Club First Book, and won Scottish non-fiction Book of the Year. Her latest book, All Made Up (the next instalment of her memoirs), was published by Granta Books in September 2011.

Janice has been a writer in residence for four Scottish prisons, and was Times Literary Supplement Research Fellow to the British Library. She has also written and presented three radio series for 麻豆约拍 Scotland (Life as a Man, Imagined Lives and Chopin's Scottish Swansong) and works extensively with musicians and visual artists including Sally Beamish, Anne Bevan, Michael Wolchover, Norman McBeath and Alasdair Nicolson.

11am
Faur茅: Cello sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op.117
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review

Dvorak: Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
DG 447 4122.

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Mon 21 Jan 2013 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Daniel Purcell

    Solo in D Giga (Published in Six Sonatas, three for two Flutes and a bass, and three Solos

    Performers: Hazel Brooks (violin), David Pollock (harpsichord)

    • CHACONNE CHAN0795.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in D, K.184

    Performers: Sharon Bezaly (flute), Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas (conductor)

    • BIS-SACD-153901.

  • Richard Wagner

    Tannh盲user (Overture)

    Performers: New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY SMK 47644.

  • 9.24: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Fran莽ois Couperin

      Pieces for harpsichord, Book 3 Suite 17: 'Les petits moulin a vents'; 'Les Timbres'

      Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

      • PHILIPS 4544 702.

  • Liadov

    8 Russian Folk Dances Op.58 - Village Dance

    Performers: Krasnoyarsk Symphony Orchestra, Ivan Shpiller (conductor)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94077.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Dancing?

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

  • 9.37: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Robert Schumann

      5 St眉cke im Volkston, Op. 102: Mit Humor; Stark und markiert

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Benjamin Britten (piano)

      • DECCA 417 833-2.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chaconne in G minor

    Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

    • DECCA 425 160-2.

  • 脡mile Waldteufel

    Estudiantina Op.191

    Performers: Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Willi Boskovsky conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7631362.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Cello Concerto No. 1

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

      • EMI 7 49306 2.

  • Alan Hovhaness

    Prayer of St Gregory

    Performers: Empire Brass

    • TELARC CD 80218.

  • 10.30: Janice Galloway's Choices

    • Fanny Mendelssohn

      Piano Trio in D

      Performers: Dartington Piano Trio

      • HELIOS CDH55078.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem: Kyrie; Dies Irae

    Performers: Sheila Armstrong (soprano), Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (bass-baritone), New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

    • EMI 512953.

  • 11am:

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Cello Sonata No. 2 in G minor

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 8 in G, Op. 88

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)

    • DG 447 4122.

Broadcast

  • Mon 21 Jan 2013 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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