Thursday - Rob Cowan with Kate Atkinson
With Rob Cowan. Essential CD of the Week: Trio Mediaeval - Folk Songs; Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin; Rob's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5 (Emperor).
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:
Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'
Mindru Katz (piano)
Halle Orchestra
John Barbirolli (conductor)
THE BARBIROLLI SOCIETY.
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Isaac Albéniz
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Performer: Laurent Korcia. Performer: Haruko Ueda. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.- Naive.
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Rolandskvadet
Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.- ECM.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Tantum Ergo in D, K.197
Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Warner.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Concerto No. 5 'Emperor'
Performer: Mindru Katz. Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- The Barbirolli Society.
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Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: 'Ebben? Ne andro lontana'
Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.- EMI.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Humoresque in G flat major, Op.101 no.7
Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.- Sony.
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Franz Liszt
Un Sospiro (3 Concert studies)
Performer: Jorge Bolet.- Decca.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 19 in C, K.465 'Dissonance': Allegro molto
Ensemble: Emerson String Quartet.- DG.
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Carl Nielsen
Wind Quintet, Op 43
Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.- Sony.
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer.- RCO LIVE.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Divertimento in B flat major, TWV 50:23
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- Archiv.
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Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Prelude)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- Mercury Living Presence.
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