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Thursday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: S'il vous plait: Mie Miki (accordion); Christopher Hogwood; Rob's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op 42.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: S?il vous plait ? Mie Miki (accordion), BIS CD 1804

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.

10.30am
This week Rob Cowan is joined by the philosopher Alain de Botton, a keen Baroque enthusiast. Alain has written on the topics of love, travel, architecture and literature, and his books have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' His first book, Essays in Love, was published when he was twenty-three, and has sold two million copies worldwide. Other titles include How Proust can change your Life (which earned him a global audience) and The Art of Travel. In 2009 he was appointed Heathrow's first Writer-in-Residence and wrote a book about his experiences, A Week at the Airport. His latest book, Religion for Atheists, was published in the UK last year.

Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education, which challenges traditional conceptions about knowledge, directing it towards life, rather than knowledge for its own sake. He has had several TV series, including The Perfect ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ and Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness, and in 2011 he presented a series of talks for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 programme, A Point of View.

11am: Rob?s Essential Choice

Rachmaninov: Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42
Shura Cherkassky (piano)

11.18am

Arriaga: Symphony in D
Scottish Chamber Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Louis‐Claude Daquin

    Le coucou (from Suite No 3, 1er livre de pieces de clavecin, 1735)

    Performers: Mie Miki (accordion)

    • BIS CD 1804.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture, Op. 81

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 7 69651 2.

  • 9.15: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Johannes Brahms

      Es ist ein Ros entsprungen (No. 8 from 11 Choral Preludes, Op. 122)

      Performers: Mie Miki (accordion)

      • BIS CD 1804.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite No. 6 in F sharp minor, HWV 431

    Performers: Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

    • EMI 5 69337.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      What am I?

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

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Allegretto in B flat, WoO 39

    Performers: Gould Piano Trio

    • SOMM CD0114.

  • 9.37: Artist of the Week - Christopher Hogwood

    • Anon.

      From The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, Nos. 14, 179-80: Alman; The Irish Dumpe; Watkins Ale

      Performers: Christopher Hogwood (virginals)

      • L’OISEAU LYRE D261D1.

  • William Byrd

    From The Fitzwilliam Virginal Book, No. 181: A Gigg

    Performers: Christopher Hogwood (virginals)

    • L’OISEAU LYRE D261D1.

  • Joseph Canteloube

    La delaΓ―ssΓ‘do (Chants d'Auvergne)

    Performers: Kate Royal (soprano), Academy of St Martin in the Fileds, Edward Gardner (conductor)

    • EMI 94419Β Β .

  • 10.05: Artist of the Week - Christopher Hogwood

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Suite No. 3 in D, BWV 1068

      Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

      • L’OISEAU LYRE 417 834-2.

  • Franz Schubert

    March in D, D819 No 4

    Performers: Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Frantz (piano duet)

    • BRILLIANT 92858/3.

  • 10.30: Alain de Botton's Choices

    • George Frideric Handel

      Samson: "Return, return O God of hosts"

      Performers: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • DECCA 414 623-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Messiah: "Worthy is the Lamb... Amen"

    Performers: MonteverdiΒ Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 434 297-2.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Quadro in B flat

    Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (director)

    • OISEAU LYRE 411 949-2.

  • 11am: Rob's Essential Choice

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Variations on a theme of Corelli, Op. 42

      Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano)

      • DECCA 433 655 2.

  • 11.18am

    • Arriaga

      Symphony in D

      Performers: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA66800.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Oboe Sonata

    Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Clifford Benson (piano)

    • CALA CACD 1018.

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  • Thu 21 Mar 2013 09:00
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