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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Couperin: harpsichord works; Rob's Essential Choice: Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit. Mozart: Piano Concerto No 24.

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 Â鶹ԼÅÄ 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
Rob's Essential Choice

Milhaud: Le boeuf sur le toit
Orchestre National de France
Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
EMI 3458082

Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491
Clara Haskil (piano)
Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux
Igor Markevitch (conductor)
PHILIPS 478 4614.

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Tue 22 Jan 2013 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Béla Bartók

    Transylvanian Dances, BB102b - Allegro vivace

    Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 478 4614.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Dances Op. 46: No. 4 in F; No. 5 in A

    Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Václav Neumann (conductor)

    • TELDEC 8.48270.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Parthia No. 2 in E flat

    Performers: Budapest Wind Ensemble, Kalman Berkes (conductor)

    • HUNGARTON 31676.

  • 9.25: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • François Couperin

      Pieces for harpsichord, Book IV Suite 21: 'La reine des coeurs'

      Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

      • PHILIPS 454 4702.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Chant du Menestrel, Op. 71

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)

      • DG 431 475-2.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Dawn on the Moscow River

    Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

    • ERATO 2292-45757-2.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    The Counterplan' Op.33 - Presto and Andante

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 4607922.

  • 9.51: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Antonín Dvořák

      Cello Concerto

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • TESTAMENT SBT1101.

  • 10.30: Janice Galloway's Choices

    • Johannes Brahms

      Intermezzo in B minor, Op. 119 No. 1

      Performers: Radu Lupu (piano)

      • DECCA 417 5992.

  • Henry Purcell

    Funeral Music for Queen Mary

    Performers: Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra, Equale Brass Ensemble, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • WARNER APEX 0927486932.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude No.10 in C sharp minor

    Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DG 4779530.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Darius Milhaud

      Le boeuf sur le toît

      Performers: Orchestre National de France, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

      • EMI CDC-7 47845 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 24 in C minor, K.491

    Performers: Clara Haskil (piano), Orchestre des Concerts Lamoureux, Igor Markevitch (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 478 4614.

Broadcast

  • Tue 22 Jan 2013 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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