Tuesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: S'il vous plait: Mie Miki (accordion); Christopher Hogwood; Essential Choice: Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: S?il vous plait ? Mie Miki (accordion), BIS CD 1804
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Christopher Hogwood, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.
10.30am
This week Rob Cowan is joined by the philosopher Alain de Botton, a keen Baroque enthusiast. Alain has written on the topics of love, travel, architecture and literature, and his books have been described as a 'philosophy of everyday life.' His first book, Essays in Love, was published when he was twenty-three, and has sold two million copies worldwide. Other titles include How Proust can change your Life (which earned him a global audience) and The Art of Travel. In 2009 he was appointed Heathrow's first Writer-in-Residence and wrote a book about his experiences, A Week at the Airport. His latest book, Religion for Atheists, was published in the UK last year.
Alain also started and helps to run a school in London called The School of Life, dedicated to a new vision of education, which challenges traditional conceptions about knowledge, directing it towards life, rather than knowledge for its own sake. He has had several TV series, including The Perfect Home and Philosophy: A Guide To Happiness, and in 2011 he presented a series of talks for the 大象传媒 Radio 4 programme, A Point of View.
11am: Rob?s Essential Choice
Brahms: Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24
Leon Fleischer (piano)
11.25am
Barber: Violin Concerto
Isaac Stern (violin)
New York Philharmonic Orchestra
Leonard Bernstein (conductor).
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 21 in E minor
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Fritz Reiner (conductor)
- DECCA 467 122-2.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Overture
Performers: Orchestra of Deutsche oper, Berlin, Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor)
- DG 410 512-2.
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9.09: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Franz Schubert
Moments musicaux, D780. Nos, 3 and 5
Performers: Mie Miki (accordion)
- BIS CD 1804.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 1 (Moonlight)
Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
- DG 477 7962.
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Today's Brainteaser
Critics' Corner
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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9.31: Artist of the Week - Christopher Hogwood
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Henry Purcell
Overture, Air, Slow Air, Air, Hornpipe of Jig, Rondeau, Air and Minuet (Distressed Innocen
Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
- L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 425 894-2.
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Butterworth
Rhapsody, A Shropshire Lad
Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)
- BELART 461 354 2.
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Edvard Grieg
Lyric Pieces, Op 47 Nos 5-7
Performers: Emil Gilels (piano)
- DG 449 721-2.
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10am: Artist of the Week - Christopher Hogwood
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 28 in C
Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)
- L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 417 841-2.
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10.30: Alain de Botton's Choices
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Allemande (Suite in D minor for cello, BWV 1008)
Performers: Maurice Gendron (cello)
- PHILIPS 422 495-2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exultate jubilate, K.165
Performers: Teresa Stich-Randall (soprano), Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
- HARMONIA MUNDI LDC 278 903.
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Chaconne (Phaeton)
Performers: Musica Antiqua Koln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
- ARCHIV 453 418-2.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Johannes Brahms
Variations and Fugue on a theme of Handel, Op. 24
Performers: Leon Fleischer (piano)
- SONY MH2K 63225.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Beatus vir (Selva morale e spirituale, 1641)
Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
- CORO 16109.
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Samuel Barber
Violin Concerto
Performers: Isaac Stern (violin), New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor
- SONY SMK 63088.
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