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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: A Purcell Songbook: Emma Kirkby; Artist of the Week; Sarah's Essential Choice: Haydn: Missa in tempore belli.

Sarah Walker shares great music and performances, with the Essential CD of the Week, Artist of the Week, and guest, Rachel de Thame selects her essential pieces of classical music.

9am
A selection of must-hear music including the Essential CD of the Week: A Purcell Songbook, Emma Kirkby

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Ivan Fischer: Rossini (La Scala di Seta Overture), Beethoven (Symphony No.4 in B flat Op.60). Also in this hour Debussy's Images II played by Arturo Michelangeli Benedetti.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is gardening expert Rachel de Thame. Today she introduces a piece she finds particularly moving, and Sarah acts as a 'personal shopper', playing a piece she hopes Rachel will enjoy.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Haydn
Missa in tempore belli
Nancy Argenta (soprano)
Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Collegium Musicum 90 Choir
Collegium Musicum 90
Richard Hickox (conductor).

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Fri 23 Sep 2011 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Brandenburgers in Bohemia' - Act I, Ballet

    Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic Orchestra, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN10518 TRACK 10.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Ballet Suite No.1 - Lyric Waltz (2.17) and Funny Waltz (2.57) 0.21875

    Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10088(2) X TRACKS 1 & 5.

  • Jacques Ibert

    Divertissment – Cortege

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Fremeux (conductor)

    • EMI CDC7492612 TRACK 2.

  • ESSENTIAL CLASSICS DISC OF THE WEEK

    • Henry Purcell

      O, O let me weep

      Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Richard Campbell (viola da gamba)

      • DECCA 4767467 TRACK 5.

  • Evaristo Felice Dall'Abaco

    Concerto Grosso in G Op.6 No.5

    Performers: Concerto Köln

    • TELDEC 3984221662 TRACKS 29-31.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK

    • Gioachino Rossini

      La Scala di Seta – Overture

      Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

      • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA27708 TRACK 1.

  • Claude Debussy

    Images II

    Performers: Arturo Michelangeli Benedetti (piano)

    • DG 4698202CD 8 TRACKS 16-18.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No.4 in B flat Op.60

      Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

      • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA 30710 TRACKS 1-4.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet Op.64 - end of Act I

    Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy ()conductor)

    • DECCA 4360782 CD 1 TRACKS 18-21.

  • ESSENTIAL CHOICE

    • Joseph Haydn

      Missa in tempore belli

      Performers: Nancy Argenta (soprano), Catherine Denley (mezzo-soprano), Mark Padmore (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Collegium Musicum 90 Choir, Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN0633 TRACKS 2-12.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Trio Elegiaque No.1 in G minor

    Performers: Beaux Arts Trio

    • PHILIPS 4201752 TRACK 1.

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  • Fri 23 Sep 2011 09:00
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