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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Vladimir Ashkenazy in Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No 1. Borodin: In the Steppes of Central Asia. 11.00am Sarah's Essential Choice: Brahms: Clarinet Quintet.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Alison Balsom playing arrangements of Bach: EMI 5 58047 2

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy. Hear him in performances of Liszt's Mephisto Waltz no.1, S 514 (version for piano), Borodin's In the Steppes of Central Asia, and Mozart's Piano Concerto in G, K453.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the novelist Mavis Cheek, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music, including the first piece she remembers hearing, and which musical work makes her glad to be alive.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Brahms: Clarinet Quintet
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    German Dance in C, K602 no.3

    Performers: Vienna Mozart Ensemble, Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

    • Philips 422 643-2.

  • Percy Grainger

    Scotch Strathspey and Reel

    Performers: Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • Philips 446 657-2.

  • 9.08am: Essential CD of the Week

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Gigue from partita in E, BWV 1006

      Performers: Alison Balsom (trumpet)

      • EMI 5 58047 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D, op.71 no.2

    Performers: TakΓ΅cs Quartet

    • Hyperion CDA67793.

  • 9.30am Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

    • Franz Liszt

      Mephisto Waltz no.1, S514

      Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

      • Testament SBT 1046.

  • 9.45am Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto no.17 in G, K453

      Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano and conductor), Philharmonia Orchestra

      • Decca 411 947-2.

  • 10.30am: Mavis Cheek’s Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony no.5 in C minor, op.67 – 1st movement

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • RCA 68976.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Bohème – Act IV, finale

    Performers: Renata Tebaldi (Mimi), Carlo Bergonzi (Rodolfo), Renato Cesari (Schaunard), Gianna D'Angelo (Musetta), Ettore Bastianini (Marcello), Cesare Siepi (Colline), Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Tullio Serafin (conductor)

    • Decca 421 301-2.

  • 11.00am: The Building a Library Recommendation

    • Johannes Brahms

      Clarinet Quintet in B minor, op.115

      Performers: Nash Ensemble

      • Wigmore Hall Live WHLive007.

  • 11.37am

    • Sheppard

      Verbum caro

      Performers: Stile Antico

      • Harmonia Mundi HMU 807517.

  • 11.47am

    • Henry Purcell

      Fantazia upon one note

      Performers: Fretwork

      • Harmonia Mundi HMU 907502.

  • 11.50am

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Valse-scherzo for violin and orchestra in C, op.34

      Performers: James Ehnes (violin), Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy

      • Onyx 4076.

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  • Mon 5 Dec 2011 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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