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Monday - Rob Cowan with Stephen Fry

With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Dances - Benjamin Grosvenor; Brainteaser: Transports of Delight; Proms Artist of the Week: Andrew Litton; Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 2.

Rob Cowan's guest this week is the writer, actor and broadcaster Stephen Fry.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Dances, Benjamin Grosvenor, DECCA. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Andrew Litton.

10:30
Rob's guest this week is the writer, actor, and broadcaster Stephen Fry.

Stephen admits that beneath the puckish and jovial exterior there lies a miasma of contradictions. He strives for bold authenticity and truth, but is known for his modest self-effacement and insecurities. Early success in series such as Blackadder, A Bit of Fry and Laurie and Jeeves and Wooster, led to film roles (Wilde; Gosford Park ; Alice in Wonderland; The Hobbit), novels (The Liar and The Hippopotamus to name but two) autobiographical memoirs (Moab Is My Washpot; More Fool Me, published this month) and a series of challenging and critically-acclaimed documentaries including Stephen Fry: The Secret Life of the Manic Depressive, in which he discusses his bipolar disorder; Stephen Fry: Wagner and Me, on the stain of Nazism on the reputation of Wagner; Stephen Fry: Out There, in which he explores attitudes to homosexuality and the lives of gay people in different parts of the globe. Currently the host of the popular quiz show QI, Stephen has appeared on popular panel games such as Just a Minute and I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue.

Stephen's music choices include classic recordings of Wilhelm Kempff performing Beethoven and Glenn Gould performing Bach, as well as great opera recordings of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro conducted by Georg Solti, Verdi's Rigoletto featuring Luciano Pavarotti and Dame Joan Sutherland, and Wagner's Tristan und Isolde conducted by Wilhelm Furtwangler.

11am
Rob's Essential Choice
Schumann
Symphony No. 2
WDR Sinfonieorchester Koln
Heinz Holliger (conductor)
AUDITE.

2 hours, 58 minutes

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Mon 8 Sep 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • John Williams

    Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone: Prologue

    Orchestra: Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
    • Warner/Nonesuch/Atlantic.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Johann Strauss II

    An die schonen Blauen Donau - Concert Arabesque after a waltz by J. Strauss jr.

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • Decca.

  • Robert Schumann

    Genoveva (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • anon

    Transports of Delight

    Singer: anon.

  • John Tavener

    Song for Athene

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Nicola Benedetti plays Vaughan Williams & Tavener.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 2.

  • Franz Liszt

    Mazeppa

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • William Walton

    Symphony No. 2

    Conductor: Andrew Litton. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.
    • London.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Rigoletto: Bella figlia dell'amore (Act III)

    Singer: Joan Sutherland. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Huguette Tourangeau. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Lindenbaum (Winterreise)

    Performer: Jorge Bolet. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Decca.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Hungarian Sketches Sz.97: An Evening at the Village

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • PHILIPS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No. 2 in C major, Op. 61

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • Audite.

  • Zelenka

    Sonata III in B flat major, ZWV 181/3

    Performer: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • LINN.

  • Ireland

    Ballerina

    Performer: Piers Lane (piano).
    • HYPERION.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Transports of Delight

A Horse.

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The music played:

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Schubert
Erlkonig
Bryn Terfel (baritone)
Malcolm Martineau (piano)
DG 445 2942

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