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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. 9.00am Tchaikovsky: The Sleeping Beauty (excerpt). 9.30am Schubert: Der Hirt auf dem Felsen. Krommer: Clarinet Concerto in E flat. Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.

9am
Sarah Walker's choices today include a selection from Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and the Artist of the Week the clarinettist Jack Brymer: Schubert (Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, D965); and Krommer (Clarinet Concerto in E flat major). Also in this hour, Saint-Saens's Phaeton performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra under Charles Dutoit.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Simon Jenkins, the journalist, author and former editor of The Times and the Evening Standard, who is also chairman of the National Trust. Today he introduces a piece that he would like to play himself and a piece that he would like to conduct.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.
Kyung Wha Chung (violin),
London Symphony Orchestra,
Andre Previn (conductor).
DECCA 425 080 2.

3 hours

Last on

Thu 20 Oct 2011 09:00

Music Played

  • Gustav Holst

    Jig from St Paul's Suite

    Performers: Bournemouth Sinfonietta, George Hurst (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN8375.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Variations on La ci darem la mano (Mozart)

    Performers: Heinz Holliger & Hans Elhorst (oboes), Maurice Bourgue (cor anglais)

    • DG 453 780 2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Menuet in D K 355 & Eine kleine Gigue in G major K574

    Performers: Andras Schiff (fortepiano)

    • OISEAU LYRE 433328 2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pas de six (no 3) from Prologue to The Sleeping Beauty

    Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

    • DG 457 635 2.
  • Franz Liszt

    Au bord d'une source (Annees de Pelerinage no 1: Switzerland)

    Performers: Lazar Berman (piano)

    • DG 437 207 2.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK

    • Franz Schubert

      Der Hirt auf dem Felsen D965

      Performers: Margaret Price (soprano), Jack Brymer (clarinet), James Lockhart (piano)

      • EMI 573718 2.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Phaeton

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 414 460 2.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Gualtier Malde… Caro nome (Rigoletto)

    Performers: Joan Sutherland (soprano), Orchestra of the Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Francesco Molinari-Pradelli (conductor)

    • DECCA 452 2982.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK

    • Krommer

      Clarinet Concerto in E flat major

      Performers: Jack Brymer (clarinet), Vienna State Opera Orchestra, Felix Prohaska (conductor)

      • VANGUARD 08917672.
  • Simon Jenkin’s Choices

    • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

      Piano Concerto no 1: 2nd and 3rd movements,

      Performers: Stephen Hough (piano), City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA 67331.
    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Sanctus from Mass in B minor

      Performers: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Chorus, New Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

      • EMI CMS 7633642.
  • Essential Choice

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Violin Concerto

      Performers: Kyung Wha Chung (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)

      • DECCA 425 080 2.
  • Gabriel Fauré

    Barcarolle No.9 in A minor

    Performers: Jean-Phillipe Collard (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 930073.
  • Robert Schumann

    Overture, Scherzo & Finale

    Performers: Orchestre Revolutionnnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 457 592 2.

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  • Thu 20 Oct 2011 09:00

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