Thursday - 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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Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.
Music Played
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闯盲谤苍别蹿别濒迟
Praeludium
Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)
- EMI 268161-2.
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9.03: Rob's Essential CD of the Week
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Act II Divertissement (No. 12)
Performers: Montr茅al Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 6549.
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9.15am
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Fran莽ois-Joseph Gossec
String Quartet, Op. 15 No. 1
Performers: Quatuor Ad Fontes
- ALPHA 025.
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9.25am
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Benjamin Britten
A Hymn to the Virgin
Performers: Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer (director)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10771(3)X.
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9.30am
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo, K.373 for flute & orchestra
Performers: Philippe Racine (flute), English Chamber Orchestra, Patrick Fournillier (conductor)
- NOVALIS 150.732-2.
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9.38am
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Arbeau
Belle qui tiens ma vie
Performers: La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall (director)
- ALIA VOX AV9814.
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9.42am
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in E minor (Klavierst眉cke, Op. 119 No. 2)
Performers: Gerhard Oppitz (piano)
- BMG CLASSICS RD 69246.
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9.48am
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Bax
The Happy Forest
Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, John Wilson (conductor)
- AVIE AV2194.
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10am
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Symphony No.6 (opening movement)
Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Leonard Slatkin (conductor)
- RCA RD60556.
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10.08am
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Tchaikovsky arr. Ellington/Strayhorn
Chinoiserie (The Nutcracker)
Performers: Harmonie Ensemble New York, Steven Richman
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMU907493.
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10.11am
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Alexander Glazunov
Raymonda, Op.57a - a selection from the Suite
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
- WARNER CLASSICS 2564 66467-4.
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10.30: Aminatta Forna's Choice
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Gabriel Faur茅
Elegie, Op. 24
Performers: Alban Gerhardt (cello), Cecile Licad (piano)
- HYPERION CDA 67872.
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10.42: Aminatta Forna's Choice
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Benjamin Britten
"Let Us Sleep Now... In Paradisum" (War Requiem)
Performers: Galina Vishnevskaya (soprano), Peter Pears (tenor), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Highgate School Boys' Choir , London Symphony Chorus, The Bach Choir, Melos Ensemble, London Symphony Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)
- DECCA 414 383-2.
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10.51am
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu No.4 in A flat, D.899
Performers: Maria Joao Pires (piano)
- DG 457 551-2.
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