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Monday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval - Folk Songs; Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin; Building a Library: Grieg: Piano Concerto in A minor.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval ? Folk Songs, ECM 476 6179. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

10.30am
This week is National Storytelling Week (with National Libraries' Day this Saturday, 8th February) and Rob's guest is the award-winning author, Kate Atkinson. Kate's first novel, Behind the Scenes at the Museum, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1985, and she has been a critically acclaimed international bestselling author ever since. Her novel Case Histories introduced her readers to Jackson Brodie, former police inspector turned private investigator, and won the Saltire Book of the Year Award and the Prix Westminster, while When Will There Be Good News? was voted Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year. Her latest novel, Life After Life, recently won the 2013 Costa Novel Award. Kate was awarded an MBE in the Queen's 2011 Birthday Honours, for services to literature.

11am
Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • Johann Strauss II

    Procession for Pleasure: Polka Op.281

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • Sony.

  • JaromΓ­r Weinberger

    Schwanda the Bagpiper (Polka and Fugue)

    Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • EMI.

  • Trad

    Gullmand went off to a feast "Little Child"Β 

    Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in F major, Op.3'4

    Orchestra: Combattimento. Director: Jan Willem de Vriend.
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Fountains of Rome

    Performer: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Fritz Reiner (conductor).
    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.

  • Cyrillus Kreek

    Psalm 137 'Paabeli jogede kaldali'

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.
    • Ondine.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Brazilian Impressions: Song and Dance

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.
    • Naxos.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata for viola, flute and harp

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Marriage of Figaro (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata No 1 in G minor for violin solo, BWV 1001

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • Hyperion.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Piano Concerto in A minor Op.16

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter. Orchestra: Moscow Grand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Kondrashin.
    • Praga.

  • John Dowland

    Mrs Vaux's Galliard

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg (lute).
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in B flat K454

    • Philips.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece

Answer: Rome.

The music played:

Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
RCA 09026 614012

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