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Wednesday - Rob Cowan with Jonathan Coe

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Telemann - Paris Quartets; Brainteaser: Puzzle; Proms Artist of the Week: Truls Mork; Author Jonathan Coe.

Rob's guest this week is the author Jonathan Coe. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Puzzle.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Telemann - Paris Quartets, Bartold/Sigiswald/Wielan Kuijken, Gustav Leonhardt, SONY. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Truls Mork.

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the author Jonathan Coe, whose novel What a Carve Up! won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It was followed by The House of Sleep, which won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Novel award. What a Carve Up! and a later novel, The Rotters' Club, were adapted as drama serials for 大象传媒 Radio 4. He has also written a biography of the experimental British novelist BS Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize.

Music is a constant thread in Jonathan's oeuvre, and he is a lifelong fan of Canterbury progressive rock. He made a record, 9th & 13th, a collection of readings of his work, set to music by Jazz pianist/double bass player Danny Manners and Indie pop artist Louis Philippe.

Jonathan has been a jury member at the Venice and Edinburgh Film Festivals, as well as a judge for the Man Booker Prize.
Rob's guest this week is the author Jonathan Coe, whose novel What a Carve Up! won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. It was followed by The House of Sleep, which won the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Best Novel award. What a Carve Up! and a later novel, The Rotters' Club, were adapted as drama serials for 大象传媒 Radio 4. He has also written a biography of the experimental British novelist BS Johnson, Like a Fiery Elephant, which won the Samuel Johnson Prize.

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Wed 20 Aug 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Cello Concerto in A major, Wq 172

    Performer: Truls M酶rk. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.
    • Virgin.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite from 鈥楾he Prince of the Pagodas鈥�: Pas de six: Entree, Quick and Energetic

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.
    • Chandos.

  • Edward Elgar

    Menuetto and Trio from Harmony Music no 5

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Gigue from Suite no 3 in E minor HWV 429

    Performer: Laurence Cummings.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Fountains of Rome

    Conductor: Riccardo Muti. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra.
    • EMI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Poemes de Stephane Mallarme: No. 2, 鈥楶lacet Futile鈥�

    Performer: Peter Rydstrom. Performer: Nils鈥怑rik Sparf. Performer: Mats Lidstr枚m. Performer: Andreas Alin. Performer: Matti Hirvikangas. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Performer: Ulf Forsberg. Performer: Per Billman. Performer: Lars Paulsson.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Bourees I & II from Partita in B minor BWV 831

    Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.

  • Arthur Honegger

    Symphony No. 3: De profundis clamavi

    Music Arranger: Shostakovich, Dmitri. Performer: Adrienne Soos. Performer: Ivo Haag.
    • Guild.

  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Yeomen of the Guard (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • London.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Paris Quartet No 8 in A minor

    Performer: Barthold Kuijken. Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. Performer: Gustav Leonhardt.
    • Sony.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet. Performer: Truls M酶rk.
    • Virgin.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle: What's Missing?

The answer is听East. The works were: Elgar鈥檚 Overture 鈥業n the South鈥�, the North Country Sketches by Delius, and finally West Side Story by Bernstein, so East was the odd one out.

听

The music played:


Elgar
In the South - Alassio
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Sir Andrew Davis (conductor)
TELDEC 0630 17785 2听

听

Delius
Dance 鈥� 3rd movement of North Country sketches
Ulster Orchestra
Vernon Handley (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 8413听 听听


Bernstein
West Side Story
City Of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Paavo J盲rvi (conductor)
VIRGIN CLASSICS 545 295 2

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