Wednesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: York Bowen Piano Works; Artist of the Week, Mikhail Pletnev; 20 Great British Works: Elgar: Violin Concerto, Op 61.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: York Bowen Piano Works, performed by Joop Celis.
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Mikhail Pletnev.
10.30am
This week, Rob's guest is the Irish award-winning writer Colm Toibin: essayist, playwright, journalist, critic and poet. His work as a journalist and writer includes 'Bad Blood: A Walk Along the Irish Border' (1987) and 'The Sign of the Cross: Travels in Catholic Europe' (1994). His novels include: 'The Blackwater Lightship' (1999, shortlisted for the Booker Prize and made into a film starring Angela Lansbury), 'The Master' (2004, winner of the Dublin IMPAC Prize; the Prix du Meilleur Livre; the LA Times Novel of the Year; and shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and 'Brooklyn' (2009, winner of the Costa Novel of the Year). His short story collections are 'Mothers and Sons' (2006, winner of the Edge Hill Prize) and 'The Empty Family (2010). His play 'Beauty in a Broken Place' was performed at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin in 2004. His other books include: 'The Modern Library: the 200 Best Novels Since 1950' (with Carmen Callil) and 'All a Novelist Needs: Essays on Henry James' (2010). He has edited 'The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction'. He is a regular contributor to the Dublin Review, the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books.
11am
20 Great British Works
Elgar: Violin Concerto in B minor, Op.61
James Ehnes (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor).
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Music Played
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Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, Op. 61
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Edward Elgar
Suite from 'The Crown of India': III. Warriors' Dance
Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Groves (conductor)
- EMI 5 03603 2.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in B flat, 'Les Nations', TWV 55:B5: Overture
Performers: Akademie fΓΌr Alte Musik Berlin, Stephan Mai (leader)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMG508396.97.
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9.09: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Edwin York Bowen
24 Preludes, Op. 102: Nos. 1 in C; 10 in E minor; 21 in B flat; 18 in G sharp minor
Performers: Joop Celis (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10774.
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Mackenzie
Overture to The Cricket on the Hearth, Op. 62
Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Martyn Brabbins (conductor)
- HELIOS CDH55395.
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9.30am
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Today's Brainteaser
The Year in Question
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Habanera, op.21 no.2
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
- TESTAMENT SBT 1259.
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JeanβMarie Leclair
Second 'Music Recreation', op.8 - Forlane
Performers: The Four Nations Ensemble
- ORCHID CLASSICS ORC 100032.
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Maurice Ravel
Sonatine
Performers: Martha Argerich (piano)
- PHILIPS 456 700 2.
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10am: Artist of the Week - Mikhail Pletnev
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Sergey Prokofiev
Summer Night Suite, Op. 123
Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
- DG 445 830-2.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to Preciosa, op.78
Performers: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Rafael Kubelik (conductor)
- DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 477 5838.
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10.30: Colm TΓ³ibΓn's Choice
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Richard Wagner
Die WalkΓΌre: Act II, scene 4 ('Siegmund! Sieh auf mich!')
Performers: BrΓΌnnhilde: Birgit Nilsson (soprano), Siegmund: James King (tenor), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)
- DECCA 455 562-2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in E minor, BWV 854 from The Well-tempered Keyboard, Bk1
Performers: Glenn Gould(piano)
- TEKNON TK 11-251.
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Edward Elgar
Violin Concerto in B minor, op.61
Performers: James Ehnes (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)
- ONYX 4025.
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Sweelinck
Balleth del granduca
Performers: Glen Wilson (harpsichord)
- TEKNON TK 110251.
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Robert Farnon
The Westminster Waltz
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.Performers: The Philharmonic Orchestra, Iain Sutherland (conductor)
- SOMCD 0117.
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- Wed 26 Jun 2013 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3