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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms; Artist of the Week: Otto Klemperer; Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111.

Rob's guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.

On Friday this week on Radio 3 we begin a new feature for the 2013 Proms: 'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day an artist performing in this year's season recommends a musical work, and on Essential Classics across the Proms season we'll play one of those pieces at around 10am.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.

11am
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 8 Jul 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    The Fencing Master (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

    Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

    • ASV CD COE 809.
  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Sullivan

      Overture di ballo

      Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)

      • GUILD GHCD 2393.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Quartet in B flat

    Performers: Michael Thompson Wind Quartet

    • NAXOS 8.554098.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust, Op. 24)

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 456 143-2.
  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Dancing?

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

  • 9.34: Artist of the Week - Otto Klemperer

    • Johannes Brahms

      Tragic Overture, Op. 81

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • EMI CDM769651-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in F major, HWV 405

    Performers: Michala PetriΒ and Elizabeth SelinΒ (recorders), Denis VigayΒ (cello), George MalcolmΒ (harpsichord)

    • PHILIPS 412 598-2.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in D minor, Kk213

    Performers: John Williams (guitar)

    • SONY SBK 62425.
  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Otto Klemperer

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No. 39

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 567334-2.
  • 10.30: David Mitchell's Choices

    • John Cage

      In a Landscape

      Performers: Alexei Lubimov (piano)

      • ECM 461812.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Symphony No. 9: Scherzo

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 52969Β .
  • 11am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Sonata in C minor, Op. 111

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Tempest, Op 18

    Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • SONY 82876-8807-2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    4 Petites prieres de St Francois d'Assise

    Performers: The King's Singers

    • EMI 566842-2.

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