Wednesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.
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. 35: Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition.
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Wedgwood
Dragonfly
Performers: Uchenna Ngwe (oboe), Philip Cornwell (piano)
- OBOE CLASSICS CC2026.
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Richard Wagner
Prelude: Die Meistersinger
Performers: The Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)
- SONY CLASSICAL MYK 42597.
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Scott Joplin
The Easy Winners
Music Arranger: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: AndrΓ© Previn.Performers: Joshua Rifkin (piano)
- EMI 082934 2.
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9.16: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Sacrae Symphoniae No. 6: Sonata Pian e forte; Canzon duodecimi toni a 10; Canzon spetimi t
Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
- CSOR 901 1103.
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Today's Brainteaser - Spot the Openings
Tchaikovsky - Scene from Swan Lake; Schubert - Die Forelle (The Trout); Coates - By the Sl
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9.31: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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Paganini ed. Kreisler
La Clochette Op. 7
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
- TESTAMENT SBT 1259.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Two pieces from Scarlatti, Op. 17
Performers: Wind Section of the USSR State Symphony Orchestra
- PRAGA PR 250 090.
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Eccles
A Division on a Ground by Mr John Eckles
Performers: Musicke and Mirth
- RAMEE RAM 1204.
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9.56: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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Γ‰douard Lalo
Symphonie Espanole
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor)
- SUPRAPHON SU 3677 2.
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10.30: Geoffrey Robertson QC's Choices
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Overture: The Creatures of Prometheus
Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
- DG 415 833 2.
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Weill arr. Blitzstein
Threepenny Opera: Pirate Jenny
Performers: Lotte Lenya (voice), Original Cast Recording, Samuel Matlowsky (musical director)
- POLYDOR 8202602.
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Novello
We'll gather lilacs
Performers: Richard Tauber (tenor)
- MUSIC FOR PLEASURE CDDL 1242.
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11am: The Story of Music
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Mussorgsky orch. Ravel
Pictures at an Exhibition
Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)
- RCA 88765414972 -09.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Quel guardo il cavalier… (Don Pasquale)
Performers: Mirella Freni (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Riccard Muti (conductor)
- EMI 416 494 2.
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11.45am
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Suite: The Adventures of Robin Hood
Performers: National Philharmonic, Charles Gerhardt (conductor)
- RCA 09026 60966 2.
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Suite: The Adventures of Robin Hood
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