Friday - Rob Cowan with Jonathan Coe
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: Telemann - Paris Quartets; Brainteaser: Only Connect; 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: Only Connect.
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 BBC 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.
Last on
Music Played
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Georges Bizet
Caprice in C major
Performer: Julia Severus.- Naxos.
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Georges Bizet
Duo (Jeux d'enfants)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yondani Butt. -
Johannes Brahms
Im Herbst
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Philips.
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Glazunov
Serenade no 2 in F op 11
Conductor: Yondani Butt. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.- ASV.
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Eric Coates
The Dam Busters March
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Paradise Moscow - suite (Ballet)
Ensemble: The Pianos Trio.- Warner.
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John Dowland
My Lord Willoughby's Welcome Home
Performer: Christoph Denoth. -
Georg Philipp Telemann
Paris Quartet no 11
Performer: Sigiswald Kuijken. Performer: Wieland Kuijken. -
Herbert Howells
Elegy for viola, string quartet and string orchestra
Performer: Matthew Souter. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Chandos.
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Robert Schumann
Fantasy Pieces op 73
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Performer: Truls Mørk.- Simax.
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner
Fairy Tale, Op 51 No 1
Performer: Boris Berezovsky.- Teldec.
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Aníbal Troilo
Responso - Instrumental
Orchestra: Orquesta Típica.- 100 Anos en 100 Tangos.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme
Performer: Truls Mørk. Orchestra: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.- Virgin.
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Only Connect
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Only Connect
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The pieces all contained words from the NATO phonetic alphabet, more accurately known as the International Radiotelephony Spelling Alphabet: F-Foxtrot, P-Papa and J-Juliet
The music played:
Adams
Foxtrot - The Chairman Dances
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Simon Rattle (conductor)
EMI CDC 555051 2
Mozart
`Pa-pa, pa-pa' duet from Magic Flute
Thomas Quasthoff (Papageno)
Montserrat Caballe (Pagagena)
Wurtemberg Chamber Orchestra Heilbronn
Jorg Faerber (conductor)
RCA 74321 869522
Prokofiev
'The young Juliet' from Romeo and Juliet
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Mark Ermler (conductor)
ROH ROH30910
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