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Tuesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Wagner: Liebestod (Tristan und Isolde).

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live CSOR 901 1103

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, violinist Ida Haendel.

10.30am
Rob Cowan's guest this week is the Geoffrey Robertson QC. Founder and head of Doughty Street Chambers, Geoffrey Robertson serves as a Master of the Bench at the Middle Temple, a recorder, and visiting professor at Queen Mary, University of London. He is a 'distinguished jurist' member of the United Nations Justice Council, having served as the first President of the Special Court in Sierra Leone and He has argued many landmark cases in media, constitutional and criminal law in the European Court of Human Rights, the House of Lords, the Privy Council and Commonwealth courts.

11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No.33: Wagner: Tristan und Isolde: Liebestod.

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Tue 19 Feb 2013 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad. Bohemian (from Ondrej Hulka鈥檚 collection from Zlat谩 Koruna)

    U kl谩stera pole (There are fields around the monastery)

    Performers: Musica Bohemica, Jaroslav Krcek (director)

    • SUPRAPHON SU4098 2.

  • 9.02: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Prokofiev arr. Joe Kreines

      Three scenes from Romeo and Juliet

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass

      • CSOR 901 1103.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu Op. 90/1

    Performers: Friedrich Gulda (piano)

    • PRICE-LESS D14201.

  • John Dowland

    Come again: sweet love doth now invite

    Performers: Paul Agnew (tenor), Christopher Wilson (lute)

    • METRONOME MET CD 1010.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

      Performers: Mozart was writing to his wife Constanze

  • Lambert

    Aubade H茅ro茂que

    Performers: English Northern Philharmonic, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 66565.

  • 9.40: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel

    • Maurice Ravel - Pi猫ce en forme de Habanera

      Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in D flat op 30 no 3

    Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DG 477 953 2.

  • William Walton

    Violin Concerto in B minor

    Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 764 202 2.

  • 10.30: Geoffrey Robertson QC's Choices

    • Gaetano Donizetti

      "O giusto cielo鈥l dolce suono" 鈥� Scene 2 Act 3 of Lucia di Lammermoor ('Mad scene')

      Performers: Joan Sutherland (soprano), Orchestra e coro dell鈥橝ccademia di Santa Celilia, Rome, John Pritchard (conductor)

      • DECCA 467 588 2.

  • Georges Bizet

    Entr'act to Act 3 of Carmen

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 419 636 2.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Richard Wagner

      Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 763 617 2.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Act 2 scene 5 from The Coronation of Poppea

    Performers: City of London Baroque Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS VM 561 783 2.

  • Lecuona

    Ante El Escorial & Granada

    Performers: Clara Rodriguez (piano)

    • NIMBUS NI 6214.

  • 11.35am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No. 7 'Le Midi'

      Performers: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director)

      • ARCHIV 423 098 2.

Broadcast

  • Tue 19 Feb 2013 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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