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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Couperin: harpsichord works played by Gustav Leonhardt; Rob's Essential Choice: Debussy: Jeux. Bach: Missa brevis in A, BWV234.

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

Debussy: Jeux
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
LSO LIVE 692

Bach: Missa brevis in A major, BWV 234
Katharine Fuge (soprano)
Carlos Mena (countertenor)
Jan Kobow (tenor)
Stephan Macleod (bass)
Francis Jacob (organ)
Ricercar Consort
Philippe Pierlot (conductor)
MIRARE 30.

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Thu 24 Jan 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Mazurka, L75

    Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

    • BIS 1955/56.

  • Jules Massenet

    Le Carillon - Danse Flamande

    Performers: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor)

    • DECCA 425 472-2.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Capriccio Italien, Op. 45

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 442 061-2.

  • 9.28: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • FranΓ§ois Couperin

      Pieces for harpsichord, Book 3 Suite 17: 'Les petites chremieres de Bagnolet'

      Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

      • PHILIPS 454 4702.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      What am I?

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      The heavy clouds disperse

      Performers: Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Mstislav Rostropovich (piano)

      • EMI 62654.

  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'enfants

    Performers: Orchestre de la SociΓ©tΓ© du Conservatoire Paris, Jean Martinon (conductor)

    • DECCA 448 5712.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Ciclo Brasileiro - Fete dans le Jungle

    Performers: Joanna Brzezinska (piano)

    • CLAVES 2913.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme (arr Tarkmann)

    Performers: Albrecht Mayer (oboe), English Concert, Trinity Baroque

    • DECCA 4781517.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Cello Sonata No. 3, Op. 69

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

      • PHILIPS 442 565.

  • 10.30: Janice Galloway's Choice

    • Benjamin Britten

      A Ceremony of Carols

      Performers: Westminster Cathedral Choir, Sioned Williams (harp), David Hill (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA66220.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    So fahr' ich hin zu Jesu Christ (from BWV31)

    Performers: Albrecht Mayer (oboe), English Concert, Trinity Baroque

    • DECCA 4781517.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Claude Debussy

      Jeux

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

      • LSO LIVE 692.

  • Billy Mayerl

    Hollyhock

    Performers: Christopher Duckett

    • SHELLWOOD SWCD42.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Missa brevis in A major, BWV 234

    Performers: Agnes Mellon (soprano), Gerard Lesne (countertenor), Christoph Pregardien (tenor), Peter Kooy (bass), Chorus and Orchestra of Collegium Ghent, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

    • VIRGIN 5622522.

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  • Thu 24 Jan 2013 09:00
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