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Essential Classics: Wednesday - Rob Cowan

Wednesday - Rob Cowan

10/07/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Wednesday - Rob Cowan

With Rob Cowan. Including Rob's Essential Choice: Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A.

With Rob Cowan. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms; Artist of the Week: Otto Klemperer; Rob's Essential Choice: Liszt: Piano Concerto No 2 in A.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: The Last Night of the Proms, GUILD.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Otto Klemperer.

10.30am
Rob?s guest this week is the author David Mitchell, whose first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award. His two subsequent novels were both shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize: number9dream (2001); and Cloud Atlas (2004), which was made into a film starring Tom Hanks and Halle Berry. In 2003, he was selected as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, and four years later he was listed among Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in The World. As well as novels, David has also written opera libretti: Wake, based on the 2000 Enschede fireworks disaster with music by Klaas de Vries, was performed by the Dutch National Reisopera in 2010. Most recently, he worked with the Dutch composer and video director Michel van der Aa on the opera Sunken Garden, premiered earlier this year by English National Opera. 


11am
Essential Choice ? A Great Proms Performance
Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 in A
John Ogden (piano)
BBC Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).

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