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Monday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker; Aurora's Wedding; Proms Artist Recommends: John Wilson on Mozart's Symphony No 40; author Aminatta Forna.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker; Aurora's Wedding. Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit: DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 6549; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear a work recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom. Today, John Wilson recommends Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor, KV.550.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is Aminatta Forna, the award-winning author of The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones. Her latest novel, The Hired Man, was published earlier this year. As well as novels, she has also published short stories and was a finalist for the 2010 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Short Story Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in Granta, The Times, The Observer and Vogue. She has guest-presented Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio's Open Book and Saturday Review, and is currently a judge for the 2013 International Man Booker Prize. Aminatta is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and from September 2013 she will be Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College, Massachusetts.

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Mon 26 Aug 2013 09:00
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Music Played

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    Clog Dance (La fille mal gardΓ©e, No. 17a)

    Performers: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Lanchbery (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 849-2.

  • 9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Waltz of the Flowers (The Nutcracker, Act II)

      Performers: MontrΓ©al Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

      • DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 6549.

  • 9.10am

    • Robert Schumann

      Overture: 'Genoveva', Op. 81

      Performers: Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard (conductor)

      • BIS-SACD-1569.

  • 9.19am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Sonata in G major, Op. 79

      Performers: Kun-Woo Paik (piano)

      • DECCA 475 6909.

  • 9.30am

    • Igor Stravinsky

      The Infernal Dance (The Firebird)

      Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

      • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA32113.

  • 9.34am

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage, Op. 27

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 423 104-2.

  • 9.49am

    • Darius Milhaud

      Suite for violin, clarinet & piano

      Performers: Melos Ensemble: Emanuel Hurwitz (violin), Gervase de Peyer (clarinet), Lamar Crowson (piano)

      • EMI 918514-2.

  • 10am Proms Artists Recommend: John Wilson

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Karl Böhm (conductor)

      • DG 427 210-2.

  • 10.30: Aminatta Forna's Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Italian Concerto in F major, BWV 971

      Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)

      • PHILIPS 426 814-2.

  • 10.50: Aminatta Forna's Choice

    • Jean Sibelius

      Andantino (Sonatina in E major, Op. 80)

      Performers: Nils-Erik Sparf (violin), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

      • BIS-CD-525.

  • 10.58am

    • Alkan

      L'Homme aux sabots (Man wearing clogs)

      Performers: Steven Osborne (piano)

      • HYPERION CDA67377.

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  • Mon 26 Aug 2013 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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