Friday - Rob Cowan with Joanne Harris
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Maxim Vengerov - Complete Recordings 1991-2007; Artists of the Week: The Talich Quartet; Rob's Essential Choice: Monteverdi: Orfeo (Act 2 excerpt).
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
Monteverdi
Orfeo, Act II excerpt including Orfeo's lament
Orfeo: Lajos Kozma (tenor)
Pastore secondo: Nigel Rogers (tenor)
Pastore terzo: Kurt Equiluz (tenor)
La Messagera: Cathy Berberian (soprano)
Capella antiqua, M眉nchen
Concentus Musicus Wien
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor).
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Music Played
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Arthur Benjamin
Jamaican Rumba
Performer: Larry Adler. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Eric Robinson.- HMV.
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture
- Decca.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Romanze
Ensemble: Leipziger Streichquartett.- MDG.
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Franz Waxman
Carmen Fantasy
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zubin Mehta.- Warner.
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anon
Only Connect
Conductor: anon. -
Robert Schumann
Blumenstuck, Op.19
Performer: Ira Biret.- Idil Beret.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Concerto for bass tuba and Orchestra
Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Performer: Arnold Jacobs. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- Decca Eloquence.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Spanish Dance; Arabian Dance; Chinese Dance (The Nutcracker)
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.- Brilliant Classics.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 8, Op. 110
Performer: Talich Quartet.- LA DOLCE VITA.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Cantabile
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Ian Brown.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85: i. Adagio - Moderato
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅. Conductor: Sir John Barbirolli.- EMI.
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J贸n Leifs
Hurricane (Baldr, Op.34)
Conductor: Kari Kropsu. Singer: Gunnar Gudbjornsson. Orchestra: Iceland Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Schola Cantorum of Iceland.- BIS.
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Turlough O'Carolan
Planxty Irwin
Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.- Alia Vox.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Orfeo, Act II (excerpt)
Singer: Kurt Equiluz. Singer: Nigel Rogers. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Choir: Capella Antiqua M眉nchen. Singer: Cathy Berberian. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Singer: Lajos Kozma.- Teldec.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Symphony No.3 in E flat major, Op.10
Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.- DG.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was Chocolate.
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The music played:
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Oscar Strauss
鈥楳y Hero鈥 from The Chocolate Soldier
Joan Sutherland (soprano)
New Philharmonia Orchestra
Richard Bonynge (conductor)
DECCA 433 223 2听听
Tom Waits
Chocolate Jesus (from Mule Variations album)
Tom Waits (guitar/vocals)
Greg Cohen (bass)
Charles Musselwhite (harp)
EPITAPH 65472 听听
Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker - Spanish Dance (Chocolate)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 440 477 2听听
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- Fri 11 Jul 2014 09:00成人快手 Radio 3