Friday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass Live; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Dvorak: Symphony No 9 (From the New World).
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. 39: Dvorak: Symphony No.9 (From the New World).
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Sergey Prokofiev
Mercutio (Romeo & Juliet)
Performers: Roman Rabinovich (piano)
- ORCHID CLASSICS ORC 100028.
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9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Bach arr. Eric Crees
Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 582
Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra Brass
- CSOR 901 1103.
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Gustav Holst
Invocation for cello and orchestra, Op. 19 No. 2
Performers: Alexander Baillie (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, David Atherton (conductor)
- LYRITA SRCD 209.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Fantasy for solo flute in G major
Performers: Rachel Brown (flute)
- UPPERNOTE UPCD001.
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Today's Brainteaser
Only Connect - Prometheus
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9.32: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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Felix Mendelssohn
On Wings of Song
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Geoffrey Parsons (piano)
- TESTAMENT SBT 1259.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
March and Polacca from Act 3 of Sleeping Beauty
Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
- DG 457 634 2.
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Heinichen
Pastorale in A major
Performers: Musica Antiqua K枚ln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
- ARCHIV 447 644 2.
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9.55: Artist of the Week - Ida Haendel
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Jean Sibelius
Violin Concerto
Performers: Ida Haendel (violin), Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor)
- SUPRAPHON SU 4024 2.
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10.30: Geoffrey Robertson QC's Choices
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Richard Wagner
G枚tterd盲mmerung (conclusion)
Performers: Br眉nnhilde: Eva Marton (soprano), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
- EMI CDS7544852.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Souvenirs de Munich
Performers: Walter and Beatriz Klien (piano duet)
- TURNABOUT 3037100142.
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Trad arr. Britten
The Salley Gardens
Performers: Ailish Tynan (soprano), Iain Burnside (piano)
- SIGNUM CLASSICS SIGCD239.
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11am: The Story of Music
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
- LSO LIVE LSO 0001.
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Gershwin arr. Wild
Virtuoso Studies: Lady be good; Liza
Performers: Earl Wild (piano)
- CHESKY CD32.
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Earl Wild
Lady be good (Virtuoso Studies after Gershwin)
Composer: George Gershwin. Performer: Earl Wild.- Chesky.
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Earl Wild
Liza (Virtuoso Studies after Gershwin)
Composer: George Gershwin. Performer: Earl Wild.- Chesky.
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