Thursday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Incarnation - Christmas Music; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski; Sandi Toksvig; Rob's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker (Act 1).
Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for 大象传媒 Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Act 1
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dor谩ti (conductor)
DECCA 442 5622.
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Leroy Anderson
Bugler's Holiday
Orchestra: Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dance of the Furies (Orph茅e et Eurydice)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Archiv.
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This Endere Nyghth I saw a Syghth
Choir: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Signum.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Capriccio Italien, Op 45
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kenneth Alwyn.- Decca.
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Jacques Offenbach
The Rhine Nixies (Grand Waltz)
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski. -
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Arvo P盲rt
Spiegel im Spiegel (version 2, for two pianos)
Ensemble: Jeroen and Sandra van Veen.- Brilliant Classics.
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Amilcare Ponchielli
Paolo e Virginia
Performer: Sharon Kam. Orchestra: W眉rttembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Ruben Gazarian.- Berlin Classics.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker, Op. 71: Act II - 'Chocolate', Spanish Dance
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Armide: Act II, scenes 4-5
Singer: Valerie Gabail. Singer: Sandrine Rondot. Singer: Myriam Sosson. Singer: Jerry Gregoire. Singer: Jean-Christope Hurtaud. Singer: Marcus Loureiro de Sak. Singer: Nicole Heaston. Singer: Mireille Delunsch. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Archiv.
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Jacques Ibert
Escales
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- Sony.
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Georges Bizet
Votre toast, je peux vous le rendre; Tor茅ador, en garde (Carmen)
Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Amy Beach
Symphony in E minor 'Gaelic', Op 32 (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Mazurka in C, op.24 no.2
Performer: Marjan Kiepura (piano).- PATRIA.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker: Act I
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Romanian Concerto
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.- Teldec.
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Isaac Alb茅niz
Tango, op.165 no.2
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux (violin). Performer: Istvan Hajdu (piano).- PHILIPS.
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