Monday - Rob Cowan with Nigel Williams
With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: My Violin Legends, with Pavel Sporcl and Petr Jirikovsky; Artist of the Week: Charles Munch; Berlioz: Les nuits d'ete.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: My Violin Legends - Pavel ?porcl (violin) & Petr Jir铆kovsk媒 (piano), SUPRAPHON SU41412. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30 - today: Transports of Delight.
10am
Artist of the Week: Charles Munch
10.30am
Rob's guest this week is the novelist, screenwriter and playwright, Nigel Williams. Nigel's most successful work has been his script for the 2005 TV drama Elizabeth I (starring Helen Mirren), for which he received an Emmy Award nomination. His novels include the bestselling 'Wimbledon Trilogy' - The Wimbledon Poisoner, They Came from SW19 and East of Wimbledon ? the first of which he adapted into a successful television film. He won a television BAFTA for his screen adaptation of William Horwood's Skallagrigg, and was the primary scriptwriter for the second season of Jim Henson's Storyteller series. As a playwright, Nigel has adapted William Golding's Lord of the Flies for the stage, and his first play, Class Enemy, has been translated into more than thirty languages.
11am
Berlioz
Les nuits d'茅t茅
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Claude Debussy
Petite suite (Ballet)
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Franti拧ek Ond艡铆膷ek
Scherzo capriccioso, Op 18
Performer: Pavel 艩porcl. Performer: Petr Ji艡铆kovsk媒.- Supraphon.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonatae tam aris quam aulis servientes (Sonata VII)
Performer: Andreas Lacker. Performer: Herbert Walser. Ensemble: Clemencic Consort. Director: Ren茅 Clemencic.- OEHMS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 8 in F, K.168
Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.- DG.
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Transports of Delight
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Hector Berlioz
Benvenuto Cellini Overture
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA Living Stereo.
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Frederic Curzon
March of the Bowmen
Performer: The New London Orchestra. Performer: Ronald Corp (conductor).- RICERCAR.
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Tom谩s Luis de Victoria
O Domine Jesu Christe 脿 6
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- PHI.
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Claude Debussy
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Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA Living Stereo.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bereitet die Wege, bereitet die Bahn (Cantata BWV.132)
Singer: Sebastien Hennig. Orchestra: Leonhardt鈥怌onsort. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.- TELDEC.
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William Boyce
Symphony No 5 in D major
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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Hector Berlioz
Les nuits d'ete: Au cimetiere; L'ile inconnue
Singer: Brigitte Balleys. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Mozart
Piano Concerto No.25 in C K.503
Performer: Leon Fleisher (piano). Performer: The Clevelnad Orchestra. Performer: George Szell (conductor).- SONY.
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Carl Nielsen
Little Suite Op.1
Performer: Norwegian Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Iona Brown (director).- EMI.
Today's Brainteaser Answer
Transports of Delight
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The music played:
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Coronation Scot 听听听听听听听
New London Orchestra
Ronald Corp (conductor)
HYPERION CDS44261
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