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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti grossi after Scarlatti. Katia and Marielle Labeque in Berio and Gershwin. Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Octet for Strings.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Berio (Waltz) and Gershwin (Rhapsody in Blue).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces music that he finds particularly moving and a work he remembers being performed by a conductor he admires.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mendelssohn
Octet for Strings
Academy Chamber Ensemble
Iona Brown (director)
PHILIPS 420400 2.

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Tue 8 Nov 2011 09:00
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Music Played

  • Peter Warlock

    Mattachins (Sword Dance) from the Capriol Suite

    Performers: English Sinfonia, Charles Groves (conductor)

    • IMP PCD926.

  • 9.02am: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Avison-Scarlatti

      Concerto Grosso no 1 in A major

      Performers: The Avison Ensemble

      • DIVINE ART DDA21213.

  • Granados

    Quejas op 11 no 46.17

    Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • MUSICA VIVA MVCD 1074.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Overture – Hansel and Gretel

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

    • DECCA 421 112 2.

  • 9.37am: Artists of the Week - the Labeques

    • Berio

      Maria Isabella (Waltz)

      Performers: Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano – 4 hands)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 48381.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Variations for oboe and military band

    Performers: Alf Nilsson (oboe), Stockholm Concert Band, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN9444.

  • 9.51am: Artists of the Week - the Labeques

    • George Gershwin

      Rhapsody in blue

      Performers: Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano – 4 hands)

      • PHILIPS 400 022-2.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantasia No.9 in A minor

    Performers: Fretwork

    • VIRGIN VC5450622.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Sta nell'ircana (Alcina)

    Performers: Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Ostrobothnian Chamber Orchestra, Juha Kangas (conductor)

    • FINLANDIA 3984 297132.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: IstvΓ΅n KertΓ©sz.

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Istvan Kertesz (conductor)

    • Decca 425 0602.

  • 10.30 am Dr. Tom Wright's Choices

    • Robert Saint

      Gresford (The Miners' Hymn)

      Performers: Westoe Brass Band, Steve Malcolm (conductor)

      • WESTCD: WESTCD2005-1.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Finale: Symphony No.1

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 431790 2.

  • 11.00am Essential Choice

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Octet in E flat op 20

      Performers: Academy Chamber Ensemble, Iona Brown (director)

      • PHILIPS 420 400 2.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Fountains of Rome16.32

    Performers: San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 411 419 2.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in D major, Wq.616

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • DG 459 614-2.

Broadcast

  • Tue 8 Nov 2011 09:00
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