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Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker; Aurora's Wedding (Montreal Symphony Orchestra); Proms Artist Recommends; author Aminatta Forna.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week - Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker; Aurora's Wedding. Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit: DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 6549; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear a work recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.

10.30am
Rob's guest this week is Aminatta Forna, the award-winning author of The Memory of Love and Ancestor Stones. Her latest novel, The Hired Man, was published earlier this year. As well as novels, she has also published short stories and was a finalist for the 2010 大象传媒 National Short Story Award. Her essays and articles have appeared in Granta, The Times, The Observer and Vogue. She has guest-presented 大象传媒 Radio's Open Book and Saturday Review, and is currently a judge for the 2013 International Man Booker Prize. Aminatta is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, and from September 2013 she will be Sterling Brown Distinguished Visiting Professor at Williams College, Massachusetts.

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Music Played

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Air pour Le Printemps (Pha茅ton, 1683)

    Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)

    • DECCA 480 2374.

  • 9.02am

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      The Ruler of the Spirits Op.27

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • DG 419 070-2.

  • 9.07am

    • Claude Debussy

      La Cath茅drale Engloutie (Preludes, Book 1)

      Performers: Ivan Moravec (piano)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 3584-2.

  • 9.13: Rob's Essential CD of the Week

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Nutcracker, Act II conclusion: Pas de deux of the Prince & Sugar-Plum Fairy; Finale

      Performers: Montr茅al Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

      • DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 6549.

  • 9.31am

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      Cypresses: No. 2 Death reigns in many a human heart; No. 3 When your sweet glances fall on

      Performers: Panocha Quartet

      • SUPRAPHON SU3391-2.

  • 9.43am

    • Jean Sibelius

      Lemmink盲inen in Tuonela (Lemmink盲inen Suite, Op. 22)

      Performers: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo J盲rvi (conductor)

      • VIRGIN 545213-2.

  • 10.00am

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Flight of the Bumble Bee (The Tale of Tsar Sultan)

      Performers: George Malcolm (harpsichord)

      • DECCA 444 390-2.

  • 10.02am: Proms Artists Recommend: Django Bates

    • S Feldman

      Piano and String Quartet (excerpt)

      Performers: Kronos Quartet with Aki Takahashi (piano)

      • NONESUCH 7559-79320-2.

  • 10.13am

    • Bach

      Improvisation on the first movement of the Concerto by D minor by J.S. Bach

      Performers: Stephane Grappelli & Eddie South (violins), Djanjo Reinhardt (guitar)

      • PROPERNOTE P1310.

  • 10.18am

    • Johann Friedrich Fasch

      Sonata in G minor for 2 oboes, bassoon and basso continuo

      Performers: Virtuosi Saxoniae, Ludwig Guttler (director)

      • BRILLIANT CLASSIC 94673.

  • 10.30: Aminatta Forna's Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Sonata in D major for piano duet, K.381: 1st movement

      Performers: G眉her & S眉her Pekinel (piano)

      • WARNER APEX 2564 62037-2.

  • 10.42: Aminatta Forna's Choice

    • Rodrigo Le茫o

      笔补蝉颈贸苍

      Performers: Rui Reininho (singer), Mario do Mar, Mallia Marques, Patricia Paula, Eurcio Cardoso, Ricardo Alberto and Anne Vitorino d鈥橝lemida (violins), Celina da Piedade (accordion), Rodrigo Leao (synthesiser)

      • SONY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT 5053292000.

  • 10.49am

    • Templeton

      Bach Goes to Town

      Performers: George Malcolm (harpsichord)

      • DECCA 444 390-2.

  • 10.52am

    • Richard Wagner

      Entrance of the Gods into Valhalla (Rheingold)

      Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, George Szell (conductor)

      • SONY MDK46283.

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    大象传媒 Radio 3

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