Monday - Rob Cowan with Joanne Harris
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - Complete Recordings 1991-2007; Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet; Gluck: Orfeo ed Eurydice (excerpt).
with Rob Cowan and his guest, the author Joanne Harris.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - The Complete Recordings 1991-2007, WARNER. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet.
10:30
Rob's guest this week is the author Joanne Harris, best known for writing the award-winning novel Chocolat (later turned into a highly successful film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp). The book was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and due to its success in 2012 Joanne became one of only four female members of the "Millionnaires' Club," the elite group of authors who have achieved a million sales of one book in the UK since records began. She has written two more novels in the Chocolat series: The Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Curé, as well as two French cookbooks (co-written with Fran Warde). In 2007 she published Runemarks, a fantasy novel based on Norse mythology, aimed at both children and adults. A sequel, Runelight, followed in 2011, and Joanne continued with the Norse mythology theme in her most recent novel, The Gospel of Loki, published earlier this year.
11am
Gluck
Orfeo ed Eurydice (excerpt)
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Music Played
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anon
Place that Piece
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Edvard Grieg
In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt)
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Georges Bizet
Jeux d'enfants (Petite Suite)
Orchestra: Orchestre national du Capitole de Toulouse. Conductor: Michel Plasson.- EMI.
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Zoltán Kodály
9 Epigrams: No.2
Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.- Hyperion.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orfeo ed Euridice: Act II scene 1
Singer: Bernarda Fink. Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: René Jacobs.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Kamarinskaya
Orchestra: USSR Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- OLYMPIA.
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Engelbert Humperdinck
Königskinder - Concert Overture
Orchestra: Bamberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Anton Rickenbacher.- Virgin.
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Johann Wenzel Kalliwoda
String Quartet No.2, Op. 62
Ensemble: Talich Quartet.- LA DOLCE VITA.
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Fritz Kreisler
Schon Rosmarin
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.- Warner.
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Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus à 8
Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Conductor: Graham Ross.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Niccolò Paganini
I Palpiti, Op.13
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan. Music Arranger: Fritz Kreisler.- Warner.
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Gioachino Rossini
The Thieving Magpie [La Gazza Ladra]: Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- WARNER.
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JoaquÃn Rodrigo
Fantasia para un gentilhombre
Performer: Narciso Yepes. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Luis Antonio GarcÃa Navarro.- DG.
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Franz Schubert
Fantasia in a F minor, D 940
Performer: Radu Lupu. Performer: Murray Perahia.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in C major 'con molti strumenti', RV.558
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece
The place was Galanta.
The music played:
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Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)ÌýÌýÌý
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