Monday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Liszt: Les jeux d'eaux a la Villa d'Este.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live CSOR 901 1103
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Ida Haendel.
10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the Geoffrey Robertson QC. Founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, Geoffrey Robertson serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a 'distinguished jurist' member of the United Nations Justice Council, having served as the first President of the Special Court in Sierra Leone and He has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law in the European Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the Privy Council and Commonwealth courts.
11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No.31: Liszt
Les jeux d'eaux Γ la Villa d'Este
11.10am
Mahler: Symphony No.6 [excerpt]
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Brahms orch. Dvorak
Hungarian Dance No. 21 in E minor
Performers: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Kurt Masur (conductor)
- PHILIPS 476 2797.
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9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Grainger arr. Timothy Higgins
Lincolnshire Posy
Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
- CSOR 901 1103.
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Pisador
Pavana muy llana para taΓ±er
Performers: Narciso Yepes (guitar)
- DG 459 613 2.
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Gioachino Rossini
Overture: Mathilde di Shabran
Performers: Orchestra Filarmonica Della Scala, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
- DECCA 448 218 2.
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9.30: Today's Brainteaser - Who's Dancing
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Igor Stravinsky
Circus Polka - composed for a young elephant
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
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9.34: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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Sarasate ed. Francescatti
Zapateado, Op. 23 No. 2
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
- TESTAMENT SBT 1259.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Two Dances from Aleko: Womens' Dance; Men's Dance
Performers: USSR Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
- REGIS RRC 1353.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in G, Op. 10 No. 4, RV 435
Performers: Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Australian Chamber Orchestra, Richard Tognetti (director)
- EMI 347212 2.
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9.57: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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AntonΓn DvoΕ™Γ΅k
Violin Concerto
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Hans MΓΌller-Kray (conductor)
- HANSSLER CLASSIC CD 94205.
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10.30: Geoffrey Robertson QC's Choices
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Sullivan
Trial by Jury: No. 3 Chorus and solo (Judge); No. 4 Song (Judge) 'Silence in Court…'
Performers: Richard Suart (The Learned Judge), Orchestra and Chorus of the Welsh National Opera, Charles Mackerras (conductor)
- TELARC CD 80404.
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Bedrich Smetana
Vltava (MΓ΅ Vlast)
Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
- SUPRAPHON 11 1208 2.
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11am: The Story of Music
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Franz Liszt
The Fountains of the Villa d'Este (Annees de Pelerinage III S163/R10 No. 4)
Performers: Aldo Ciccolini (piano)
- EMI CZS 762 640 2.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 6: Movements 3 & 4
Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday’s CD Review
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