Friday - Rob Cowan with Sandi Toksvig
With Rob Cowan. CD of the Week: Incarnation - Christmas Music; Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski; Sandi Toksvig; Rob's Essential Choice: Bach: Christmas Oratorio (Part 3).
Rob Cowan's guest this week is writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Incarnation ? Christmas music ancient and modern, from the Gabrieli Consort and Paul McCreesh: SIGNUM, SIGCD346. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Marc Minkowski.
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the writer, presenter and comedian, Sandi Toksvig. Sandi is a familiar voice for 成人论坛 Radio 4 listeners as the chair of The News Quiz and host of the travel programme Excess Baggage. She presents 1001 Things You Should Know for Channel 4, was team captain on Call My Bluff for many years, and has appeared on other panel shows including Whose Line Is It Anyway?, Mock the Week, and QI. She has been a columnist for Good Housekeeping magazine for more than twenty years and for seven years wrote every week in The Sunday Telegraph. Her latest book on manners, Peas and Queues, was published earlier this year.
11am
Rob's Essential Choice:
Bach
Christmas Oratorio; Part 3 (For the 3rd Day of Christmas)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (Evangelist - tenor)
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Olaf B盲r (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
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Music Played
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Ludwig van Beethoven
11 Bagatelles for piano, Op. 119: No. 7 in C
Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- BIS.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Morceau de concert
Performer: Ulf Hoelscher. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux.- EMI.
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Benjamin Britten
A Boy Was Born: "Jesu, as Thou art our Saviour"
Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Singer: Nicholas Algot Swensen. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Signum.
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C茅sar Franck
Morceau symphonique, 'Redemption'
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
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anon
Only Connect
Conductor: anon. -
Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in F major RV.97
Ensemble: Ricercar Consort. Ensemble: La Pastorella.- Ricercar.
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Olivier Messiaen
Theme and Variations for violin and piano
Performer: Gidon Kremer. Performer: Martha Argerich.- DG.
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Hector Berlioz
The Shepherds' Farewell (L'enfance du Christ)
Choir: Tenebrae. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- LSO Live.
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Schubert
Symphony No. 3 in D, D.200
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Naive.
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Dandrieu
A minuit fut un reveil
Performer: Ensemble Faux Bourdon.- RICERCAR.
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Leonard Bernstein
Mambo (West Side Story)
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG.
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Dame Ethel Mary Smyth
Benedictus (Mass in D major)
Singer: Eiddwen Harrhy. Choir: Plymouth Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Plymouth Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Philip Brunelle.- Virgin.
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Claude Debussy
Fetes
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Leopold Stokowski.- Andante.
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Dandrieu
Ou s'en vont ces gais bergers?
Performer: Ensemble Faux Bourdon.- RICERCAR.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Christmas Oratorio: Part 3 (For the Third Day of Christmas)
Singer: Nancy Argenta. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Olaf B盲r. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Archiv.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto No 27 in B flat major, K 595
Performer: Wilhelm Kempff. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Ferdinand Leitner.- DG.
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Mendelssohn (arr. Maisky)
On Wings of Song, op.34 no.2
Performer: Mischa Maisky (cello). Performer: Sergio Tiempo (piano.- DG.
Broadcast
- Fri 27 Dec 2013 09:00成人论坛 Radio 3