Monday - Rob Cowan with Oliver James
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Bach Transcriptions; Proms Artist of the Week: The Tallis Scholars; Rob's Essential Choice: Saint-Saens: Symphony No 2.
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the clinical and occupational psychologist, Oliver James. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Place That Piece.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach Transcriptions featuring Alexis Weissenberg and Bruno Leonardo Gelber. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Proms Artist of the Week: the Tallis Scholars
10:30
Rob's guest this week is the clinical and occupational psychologist, Oliver James, who also works as a writer, journalist, broadcaster and television documentary producer and presenter. His work includes various studies of modern-day living (the books Affluenza, Office Politics and Britain on the Couch - which was also a successful documentary series for Channel 4). He has written best-selling guides to parenting, and also on how to develop emotional health, and an approach to dementia (Contented Dementia).
11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Saint-Saens
Symphony No.2
ORTF National Orchestra
Jean Martinon (conductor).
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William Walton
The Wise Virgins: "Ah! How Ephemeral" [from Bach's Cantata No.26]
Orchestra: Concert Arts Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Irving.- EMI.
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William Walton
Crown Imperial
Conductor: Louis FrΓ©maux. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude in E minor, BWV 555
Performer: Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Music Arranger: Alexander Siloti.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, joy of man's desiring
Music Arranger: Myra Hess. Performer: Alexis Weissenberg.- EMI.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No.2 in E flat, K.417
Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- DECCA.
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Today's Brainteaser - Place that Piece
Orchestra: anon.- CHANDOS.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in G minor, RV105
Ensemble: Collegium Pro Musica.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Scherzo
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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Gregorio Allegri
Miserere mei, Deus
Choir: Tallis Scholars. Director: Peter Phillips. -
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Edward Elgar
Elegy
Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- EMI.
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Sergey Prokofiev
The Hunters; Procession (Peter and the Wolf)
Narrator: David Bowie. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy. -
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Geoffrey Burgon
Nunc Dimittis (Magnificat and Nunc Dimittis)
Singer: Paul Phoenix. Performer: James Watson. Ensemble: Instrumental Ensemble.- Guild.
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Edward Elgar
Sospiri
Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: John Barbirolli.- EMI.
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Camille SaintβSaΓ«ns
Symphony No.2 in A minor, Op.55
Conductor: Jean Martinon. Orchestra: Orchestre National de l'ORTF.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Chaconne in D minor (Partita, BWV1004)
Performer: Bruno Leonardo Gelber. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.- EMI.
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Max Bruch
Swedish Dances, Op.63 Nos 4-7
Orchestra: SWR Rundfunkorchester Kaiserslautern. Conductor: Werner Andreas Albert.- CPO.
Today's Brainteaser answer: Place that Piece
The answer was the Fens.
The music was:
Vaughan Williams
In the Fen Country
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN9775
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