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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Joanne Harris

With Rob Cowan. Includes CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - Complete Recordings 1991-2007; Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Brahms: String Sextet No 2.

with Rob Cowan and his guest, the author Joanne Harris.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - The Complete Recordings 1991-2007, WARNER. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet.

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the author Joanne Harris, best known for writing the award-winning novel Chocolat (later turned into a highly successful film starring Juliette Binoche and Johnny Depp). The book was shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award, and due to its success in 2012 Joanne became one of only four female members of the "Millionnaires' Club," the elite group of authors who have achieved a million sales of one book in the UK since records began. She has written two more novels in the Chocolat series: The Lollipop Shoes and Peaches for Monsieur le Cur茅, as well as two French cookbooks (co-written with Fran Warde). In 2007 she published Runemarks, a fantasy novel based on Norse mythology, aimed at both children and adults. A sequel, Runelight, followed in 2011, and Joanne continued with the Norse mythology theme in her most recent novel, The Gospel of Loki, published earlier this year.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Brahms
String Sextet No.2, Op.36
Talich Quartet.

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Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Variations du Miroir (Faust: ballet music)

    Conductor: Paul Paray. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Ferdinand H茅rold

    Zampa: Overture

    Conductor: Paul Paray. Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance No.1 in G major, Op.40

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Maxim Vengerov.
    • Warner.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in E flat, BWV1031

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Emmanuel Pahud.
    • EMI.

  • anon

    Openings

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Four Waltzes for piano: 1. Gretl

    Performer: Eric Le Van.
    • BR Klassik.

  • anon

    Openings

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Conductor: Igor Markevitch. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Philips.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Antiphon III: In oderem unguentorum... Psalm III: Laetatus Sum

    Conductor: Andrew Parrott. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Ensemble: Taverner Consort and Players.
    • EMI.

  • Erwin Schulhoff

    String Quartet No.1

    Ensemble: Talich Quartet.
    • LA DOLCE VITA.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Semiramide

    Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay. Orchestra: RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Berlin.
    • DG.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem Mass: Dies Irae; Tuba mirum; Rex tremendae

    Singer: Theo Adam. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Singer: Trudeliese Schmidt. Choir: Leipzig Radio Choir. Singer: Francisco Araiza. Singer: Margaret Price. Conductor: Peter Schreier.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    March to the Scaffold (Symphonie Fantastique)

    Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Henryk Wieniawski

    Scherzo-tarantelle, Op.16

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    String Sextet No.2, op.36

    Performer: Joseph Kluson. Performer: Michal Ka艌ka. Ensemble: Talich Quartet.
    • LA DOLCE VITA.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    The Sea, Op.28

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Jos茅 Serebrier.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Openings

The music played:

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Monteverdi
Vespers (1610)
The Monteverdi Choir
The London Oratory Junior Choir
His Majesties Sagbutts and Cornetts
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV 429565 2听

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Verdi
Requiem: Introit
Ambrosian Chorus
Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI CMS 565833 2听听


Orff
Carmina Burana: Opening (Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi)
San Francisco Symphony & Chorus
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA 430 509 2听听

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