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Wednesday - 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; Rob's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto No 2.

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
Rob's Essential Choice:
Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 2
Sviatoslav Richter (piano)
Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra
Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor)
DG.

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Music Played

  • anon

    Gypsy Pieces (Collection Uhrovska 1730) - C 298

    Ensemble: Ensemble Caprice.
    • Analekta.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance no.1 in G minor

    Music Arranger: Marc-Olivier Dupin. Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Franz Schubert

    Des Teufels Lustschloss, D.84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: István Kertész.
    • Decca.

  • Muzio Clementi

    Sonata in B flat Op.10 No.3

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • Anon.

    I know a stronghold in heaven

    Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.

  • anon

    Puzzle

  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in G minor, Op.56`2

    Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Tunes from Archbishop parker's Psalter (selection)

    Performer: Chapelle du Roi. Performer: Alistair Dixon (director).
    • SIGNUM.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Eight Variations in G K.24

    Performer: Ingrid Haebler (piano).
    • PHILIPS.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Sextet for piano and wind quintet

    Performer: James Levine. Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No.1

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • EMI.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto - Canzonetta

    Performer: Ruggiero Ricci (violin). Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Sir Malcom Sargent (conductor).
    • DECCA.

  • Beethoven

    Symphony No.7 in A Op.92 - Finale

    Performer: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Performer: Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
    • WARNER.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romanze Op.22 No.1

    Performer: Daniel Hope (violin). Performer: Sebastien Knauer (piano).
    • DG.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2

    Performer: Sviatoslav Richter (piano). Performer: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Stanislaw Wislocki (conductor).
    • DG.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    Overture in D

    Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor).
    • WARNER.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in B flat Op.6 No.7

    Performer: Combattimento. Performer: Jan Willem de Vriend (conductor).
    • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle

Multiply the number of the first by the second by the third and you have the number of an ultimate concerto. Who’s is it and what is the solo instrument?

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Answer: 3 x 3 x 3 = 27 = Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 27 in B flat.

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The music played:

Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 3: 1st mvmt
Earl Wild (piano)
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Jascha Horenstein (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 6507 ÌýÌý

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Brahms
Symphony No. 3: 3rd mvmt
Staatskapelle Dresden
Kurt Sanderling (conductor)
RCA 74321303672ÌýÌýÌý

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Beethoven
Symphony No. 3 'Eroica': 1st mvmtÌý
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 439992 2Ìý

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  • Wed 5 Feb 2014 09:00
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