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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Couperin: harpsichord works; Rob's Essential Choice: Saint-Saens: Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op 167. Medtner: Piano Concerto No 1.

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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

Saint-SaΓ«ns: Clarinet Sonata in E flat Op. 167
Martin FrΓΆst (clarinet)
Roland PΓΆntinen (piano)
BIS CD693

Medtner: Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 33
Dmitri Alexeev (piano)
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Alexander Lazarev (conductor)
HYPERION CDA66744.

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Wed 23 Jan 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Dardanus: Act II Entracte 'Bruit de guerre'

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 479 0441.

  • 9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • FranΓ§ois Couperin

      Pieces for harpsichord, Book 1 Suite 2: 'La Florentine'

      Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

      • PHILIPS 454 4702.

  • Walton

    Capriccio burlesco

    Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves (conductor)

    • EMI 7 63369 2.

  • Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Performers: HallΓ© Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor)

    • HALLE 7503.

  • Harris

    Faire is the Heaven

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • UCJ 179 5732.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    The Art of Fugue - Contrapunctus 8 a 3

    Performers: Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)

    • MELODIYA MELCD1002006.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Listener Brainteaser

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

  • 9.33: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Claude Debussy

      Cello Sonata

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

      • DECCA 417 833-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G, Op. 6 No. 1

    Performers: Il Giardino Armonico

    • DECCA 478 0319.

  • Arnold Bax

    Winter Legends - Epilogue

    Performers: Ashley Wass (piano), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.572597.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Violin Concerto No. 1

      Performers: Maxim Vengerov (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

      • TELDEC 4509-92256-2.

  • 10.30: Janice Galloway's Choices

    • George Frideric Handel

      "Cara Sposa" (Rinaldo)

      Performers: David Daniels (countertenor), Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Roger Norrington (conductor)

      • VIRGIN 5453262.

  • Biber

    Sonata Representativa

    Performers: Romanesca: Andrew Manze (violin), Nigel North (lute), John Toll (harpsichord)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMX2907344-45.

  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Les Nations - La Francoise (menuet)

    Performers: Musica ad Rhenum

    • BRILLIANT 92178.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

      Clarinet Sonata in E flat, Op. 167

      Performers: Martin FrΓΆst (clarinet), Roland PΓΆntinen (piano)

      • BIS CD693.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 33

    Performers: Dmitri Alexeev (piano), ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Lazarev (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA66744.

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  • Wed 23 Jan 2013 09:00
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