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Thursday - 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: Howells: Hymnus Paradisi.

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

Howells: Hymnus Paradisi
Joan Rodgers (soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Alan Opie (baritone)
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Richard Hickox (conductor).

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Thu 27 Jun 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Christopher Gibbons

    Fantasia

    • Motets, anthems, fantasias & voluntaries.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 011.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Mikado: "Behold the Lord High Executioner"

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Konzertstuck in F minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 79

  • William Michael Balfe

    The Bohemian Girl: "I dreamt I dwelt in Marble Halls"

  • Anton Webern

    Symphony, Op. 21: 1st movement

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Schlage doch gewunschte Stunde', BWV 53

  • Howells

    Hymnus Paradisi

  • 9am Artist of the Week - Mikhail Pletnev

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Overture to Abu Hassan, J106

      Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

      • DG 453 486-2.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Ad caenam agni providi

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16106.

  • 9.11: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Edwin York Bowen

      Ripples (A Short Sketch), Op. 100 No. 1; Shadows, Op. 100 No. 2

      Performers: Joop Celis (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10774.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody no.4

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Constantin Silvestri (conductor)

    • DISKY CLASSICS DB 707432.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Mikhail Pletnev

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      The Snow Maiden Suite

      Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

      • PENTATONE PTC5186362.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Silent Noon

    Performers: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spur (piano)

    • MEMBRAM 233590.

  • Christopher Gibbons

    Fantasia

    Performers: Pavlo Beznosiuk, Rodolfo Richter (violins), Mark Levy (bass viol), Richard Egarr (organ)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 807551.

  • Sullivan

    The Mikado - 'Behold the Lord High Executioner'

    Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, John Reed (baritone), Chorus of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company, Royston Nash (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2931.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Mikhail Pletnev

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      KonzerstΓΌck in F minor for piano and orchestra, Op. 79

      Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano and direction), Russian National Orchestra

      • DG 453 486-2.

  • Lionardo Oronzo Salvatore de Leo

    Concerto in A for cello solo with violin

    Performers: Ensemble 415, Chiara Banchini (conductor)

    • ZIG-ZAG ZZT316.

  • 10.30: Colm TΓ³ibΓ­n's Choices

    • Balfe

      The Bohemian Girl, Act 2: 'I Dreamt I Dwelt in Marble Halls'

      Performers: Joan Sutherland (soprano), London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor)

      • EMI 470 026-2.

  • Anton Webern

    Symphony, Op. 21: 1st movement

    Performers: Twentieth Century Classics Ensemble, Robert Craft (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.557530.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Schlage doch gewΓΌnschte Stunde', BWV 53

    Performers: Christophe Dumaux (alto), Pulcinella, OphΓ©lie Gaillard (direction)

    • APARTΓ‰ AP045.

  • Arnold Schoenberg

    6 Little Piano Pieces, op.19 - no.6, Sehr langsam

    Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 471 361-2.

  • 11am: 20 Works celebrating British Music

    • Howells

      Hymnus Paradisi

      Performers: Joan Rodgers (soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Alan Opie (baritone), Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus, Stephen Jackson (chorus master), Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 9744.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltzes, op.39 - no.3 in G sharp minor, no.4 in E minor, no.5 in E, no.6 in C sharp, no.7

    Performers: Leon Fleisher (piano)

    • SONY 88725459972.

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