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Friday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Couperin; Artist of the Week: Rostropovich; Rob's Essential Choice: Poulenc: Mass in G; Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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

Poulenc: Mass in G
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor)
SIGNUM SIGCD197

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'
London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)
DECCA 466 9902.

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Last on

Fri 25 Jan 2013 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Snow Maiden: 'Dance of the Birds'

    Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • PENTATONE PTC5186362.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D, Op. 64 No. 5 'The Lark'

    Performers: Amadeus Quartet

    • DG 439 479-2.

  • 9.22: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • FranΓ§ois Couperin

      Pieces for harpsichord, Book 1 Suite 2: 'Les papillons'; 'La voluptueuse'

      Performers: Gustav Leonhardt (harpsichord)

      • PHILIPS 454 4702.

  • Bridge

    Five Entr'actes, H95 - from the play, The Two Hunchbacks

    Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10729(6) X.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Swan Lake Suite Op. 20 - Swan Theme & Waltz in A

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

      • DG 449 726-2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto for 3 trumpets, timpani, 2 oboes, bassoon, strings and basso continuo, BWV 249

    Performers: Musica Antiqua Koln, Rheinhard Goebel (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 479 0377.

  • Falla

    Spanish Folk Suite - Lullaby

    Performers: Leonid Kogan (violin), Naum Walter (piano)

    • MELODIYA MELCD1001292.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Mstislav Rostropovich

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Cello Concerto No. 1

      Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

      • SONY MHK 63327.

  • 10.30: Janice Galloway's Choices

    • MacMillan

      The Gallant Weaver

      Performers: Elysian Singers, Sam Laughton (conductor)

      • SIGNUM 507.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Candide: "Make our garden grow"

    Performers: Scottish National Opera Chorus and Orchestra, Justin Brown (conductor)

    • TER CDTER1156.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Tafelmusik, 3rd Production: Suite in B major – Allegresse vite, Postillons

    Performers: Concentus musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

    • TELDEC 8.35670 ZC.

  • Mompou

    Intimate Impressions - Lament No.3

    Performers: Clelia Iruzun (piano)

    • SOMMCD 0121.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Francis Poulenc

      Mass in G

      Performers: Tenebrae, Nigel Short (conductor)

      • SIGNUM SIGCD197.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Symphony No. 3 'Scottish'

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag (conductor)

    • DECCA 466 9902.

Broadcast

  • Fri 25 Jan 2013 09:00
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