Tuesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including performances from the Essential CD of the Week, a recording of Holst's orchestral works, and by the Artist of the Week, the choir The Sixteen.
A selection of music including Holst's A Somerset Rhapsody, Op.21 No.2, from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording of Holst's orchestral works.
9.30am
Performances by the Artist of the Week, the choir The Sixteen: Bainton (And I Saw a New Heaven); Purcell (Quam multi sunt hostes mei); Britten (Rejoice in the Lamb). Also in this hour, a mystery piece for you to guess.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is historian David Starkey. Today he introduces a piece by a great performer who is no longer with us, and a piece of music he would listen to on a journey.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss.
Cleveland Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor).
DG 449 205-2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Gigue in G, K574 (arr. for 4 bassoons)
Performers: The Caliban Quartet
- CBC RECORDS MVCD 1116 TRACK 23.
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Liszt (after Wagner)
Spinnerlied aus Der Fliegende Höllander, S440
Performers: Daniel Barenboim (piano)
- DG 00289 477 9525 CD 21 TRACK 2.
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Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.553696 TRACK 1.
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Johann Strauss II - On the Beautiful Blue Danube, op.314
Performers: Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna, Willi Boskovsky (conductor)
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo from Symphony in E flat
Performers: Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky (conductor)
- SONY SM2K 46294 CD 1 TRACK 2.
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Bainton
And I Saw a New Heaven
Performers: The Sixteen, Robert Quinney (organ), Harry Christophers (conductor)
- CORO COR16014 TRACK 9.
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Maurice Ravel
Sonata in A for violin and piano (op. posth, one mvt only)
Performers: Alina Ibragimova (violin), CΓ©dric Tiberghien (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67820 TRACK 8.
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Henry Purcell
Quam multi sunt hostes mei
Performers: Mark Dobell (tenor), Stuart Young (bass) The Sixteen, David Miller (theorbo), Alastair Ross (organ), Harry Christophers (conductor)
- CORO COR 16069 TRACK 1.
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Benjamin Britten
Rejoice in the Lamb
Performers: The Sixteen (solos: Carys Lane, Deborah Miles-Johnson, 
, Simon Berridge, Simon Birchall), Margaret Phillips (organ), Harry Christophers (conductor)
- CORO COR16006 TRACKS 9–14.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Waltz in F, Op.34 No.3
Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67849 TRACK 4.
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Duke Ellington
Concerto for Cootie
Performers: Cootie Williams (trumpet), Duke Ellington and his Orchestra
- BLUEBIRD 5659-2-RB CD 1 TRACK 7.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Polonaise in A flat, op.53 ('HΓ©roΓ―que')
Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano)
- RCA GD60822 CD 6 TRACK 6.
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Joseph Haydn
Gloria, from 'Nelson Mass', Hob 22 no.11
Performers: Felicity Lott (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), The English Concert and Choir, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
- ARCHIV 423 097-2 TRACKS 2–4.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Fairy's Kiss
Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor)
- DG 449 205-2 TRACKS 4–18.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for flute, oboe d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and continuo in E, TWB 53:E1
Performers: Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Wolfram Christ (viola d’amore), Albrecht Mayer (oboe d’amore), Berliner Barock Solisten, Rainer Kussmaul (violin & director), EMI 5 034352 TRACKS 13-16
- EMI 5 034352 TRACKS 13-16.
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