Tuesday - Rob Cowan
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms; Artist of the Week: Otto Klemperer; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op 71a.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.
10.30am
Rob?s guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera.
11am
Essential Choice ? A Great Proms Performance
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Malcolm Sargent (conductor).
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Phaeton: Prologue Overture (reprise)
Performers: Les musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
- ERATO 4509 91737-2.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Le rouet d'Omphale
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 425 021-2.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Variations serieuses, Op. 54
Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)
- PHILIPS 426 272-2.
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9.21: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Fete polonaise (Le roi malgre lui)
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
- GUILD GHCD 2393.
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9.30am
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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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9.32: Artist of the Week - Otto Klemperer
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Johann Strauss II
Die Fledermaus: Overture
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
- EMI CDM 764144-2.
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Robert Schumann
Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70
Performers: Richard Watkins (horn), Ian Brown (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67923.
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10am: Artist of the Week - Otto Klemperer
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D.485
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
- EMI CDM 763869-2.
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10.30: David Mitchell's Choices
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Claude Debussy
La Mer: Jeux de vagues
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
- EMI 7691842.
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Max Bruch
Kol Nidrei
Performers: Jacqueline du Pr茅 (cello), Gerald Moore (piano)
- EMI CDC 5555292.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Nutcracker Suite, Op. 71a
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)
- 大象传媒 RADIO CLASSICS DMCD 98.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in G, K387
Performers: The Hagen Quartet
- DG 479 0593.
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Anonymous folksong
Mein Schatz der ist auf die Wanderschaft hin
Performers: Thomanerchor, Leipzig
- CAPRICCIO 7106.
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