Thursday - 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: Vaughan Williams: Symphony No 6.
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
Vaughan Williams: Symphony No. 6 in E minor
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Adrian Boult (conductor).
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Paul Hindemith
Piano Sonata No. 3: II. Sehr lebhaft
Performers: Glenn Gould (piano)
- CBSCD45689.
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Herold
Zampa Overture
Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)
- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 432 014-2.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Havanaise, Op. 83
Performers: Kyung Wha-Chung (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 425 021-2.
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9.20: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Litolff
Scherzo (from the Concerto Symphonique in D minor, Op. 102)
Performers: Shura Cherkassky (piano), 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
Where am I?
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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9.31: Artist of the Week - Otto Klemperer
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Overture to Cosi fan tutte
Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
- EMI CDM 763619-2.
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Frederick Delius
Irmelin Prelude
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)
- EMI CDC 747984-2.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Three Shakespeare Songs
Performers: Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN9425.
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10am: Artist of the Week - Otto Klemperer
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade in G, K.525 (Eine kleine Nachtmusik)
Performers: New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)
- EMI CDM 567334-2.
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Robert Schumann
Romances, Op 94
Performers: Christian Ferras (violin), Pierre Barbizet (piano)
- BRILLIANT 93791.
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10.30: David Mitchell's Choices
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Leo Brouwer
Un Dia de Noviembre
Performers: Milos Karadaglic (guitar)
- DG 4791421.
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Vincenzo Bellini
Norma: 'Casta Diva'
Performers: Maria Callas (Norma - soprano), Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Tullio Serafin (conductor)
- EMI CDM7644192.
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Toru Takemitsu
Air
Performers: Robert Aitken (flute)
- NAXOS 8.555859.
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Edvard Grieg
Brooklet, Op 62 No 4
Performers: Emil Gilels (piano)
- DG 449 721-2.
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11am: Rob's Essential Choice
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 6 in E minor
Performers: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)
- CARLTON CLASSICS 15656 91642.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 83 in G minor (The Hen)
Performers: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
- DECCA 470 062-2.
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