Friday - 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: Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No 1.
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:
Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No. 1, Op. 23
Emil Gilels (piano)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor)
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Anon.
Dance, do not cry now. Savour of the nations, come.
Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.- ECM.
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Arthur Goring Thomas
The Golden Web
Orchestra: Victorian Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- Somm.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Chorale-Prelude ''Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele'', BWV 654
Performer: David Goode.- Signum.
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Frédéric Chopin
Nocturne in E major, Op 62 No 2
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Hyperion.
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Eric Coates
The Dam Busters March
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (4th mvt)
Performer: Jascha Heifetz. Performer: Israel Baker. Performer: Arnold Belnick. Performer: Joseph Stephansky. Performer: William Primrose. Performer: Virginia Majewski. Performer: Gregor Piatigorsky. Performer: Gabor Rejto.- RCA.
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Henry Purcell
Sonata No 1 in G minor, Z 790
Ensemble: Retrospect Trio.- Linn.
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Maurice Ravel
Pavane pour une infante défunte
Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.- DG.
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Louis Spohr
Nonet in F major, Op 31
Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.- DG.
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Johann Strauss II
Voices of Spring, Op 410
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- SONY.
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Arthur Sullivan
Savoy Dances (Hornpipe; Cachucha)
Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Stanford Robinson.- EMI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1 Op.23
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: George Szell.- Sony.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was the Rolls-Royce Merlin Engine, which powered Spitfires, Mosquitoes and
Lancasters.
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The music played:
Walton
Spitfire Prelude and Fugue
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Groves (conductor)
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Ron Goodwin
Theme from ‘633 Squadron’
New Zealand Symphony Orchestra
Ron Goodwin (conductor)
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Eric Coates
Dambusters March
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Groves (conductor)
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