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Thursday - Rob Cowan with Alice Goodman

With Rob Cowan. Including CD of the Week: Carlo Maria Giulini - The London Years; Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado; Rob's Essential Choice: Rameau: Les Boreades (excerpts).

A selection of music with Rob Cowan, whose guest at 10.30am is Rev. Alice Goodman.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carlo Maria Giulini - The London Years, and at 9.30: Who Am I - today's brainteaser.

10am
Artist of the Week: Claudio Abbado. One of the greatest conductors of his time, Abbado passed away earlier this year at the age of 80. Rob explores his rich recording legacy featuring the various orchestras he conducted and founded, including: Lucerne Festival, Orchestra Mozart, Berlin Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and the Orchestra of La Scala Milan.

10.30am
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the ordination of the first women priests in the Church of England, and Rob's guest is the American poet, librettist and priest, Rev. Alice Goodman. Alice is perhaps best known for writing the libretti for two operas by John Adams: Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer. She was raised as a Reform Jew, but converted to Christianity as an adult (while working on The Death of Klinghoffer). In 2006, she took up the post of chaplain at Trinity College, Cambridge, and in 2011 became Rector of a group of parishes in Cambridgeshire. Alice is married to the British poet, Geoffrey Hill.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Rameau
Les Bor茅ades (excerpts)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Bruggen (conductor).

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Music Played

  • John Adams

    "You embraced them" (The Death of Klinghoffer)

    Singer: Sheila Nadler. Orchestra: Lyon Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Kent Nagano.
    • Elektra Nonesuch.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata Op.31 No.2 'The Tempest'

    Performer: Rudolf Buchbinder.
    • RCA RED SEAL.
    • 8869787510-2.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Voyevoda, Op.78

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • CBS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Sonata for cello and piano

    Performer: Maurice Gendron. Performer: Jean Fran莽aix.
    • Philips.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance, Op.46 No.3

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • DECCA.

  • Manuel de Falla

    Dance of the Miller's Wife; The Grapes (The Three-Cornered Hat)

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Friedrich Fasch

    Sonata in F for two oboes and two bassoons

    Performer: Burkhard Glaetzner. Performer: Ingo Goritzki. Performer: Max Reinhardt. Performer: Lutz Klepel. Performer: Siegfried Pank. Performer: Achim Beyer. Performer: Christine Schornsheim.
    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS.

  • Gerald Finzi

    The Fall of the Leaf, Op 20

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon vigesima settima 脿 8

    Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble. Director: Philip Jones.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas, Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Boreades: Suite

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.
    • Philips.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Silken Ladder (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
    • Warner.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning Polka Op.324

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Decca.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse sentimentale, Op.51 No.6

    Performer: Pierre Fournier. Performer: Lamar Crowson.
    • Pierre Fournier - Aristocrat of the Cello.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4775939.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - What am I?

What am I?聽

I am Johann Strauss II's polka schnell 'Unter Donner und Blitz' (the Thunder and Lightning polka).

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