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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy in Mussorgsky: Pictures at an Exhibition; Sarah's Essential Choice: Schubert: Piano Sonata in B flat, D960.

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 in Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition (orchestral version, arr. Ashkenazy).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the novelist Mavis Cheek who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she talks about pieces she finds particularly moving, and reveals which piece first stimulated her interest in classical music.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Schubert
Piano Sonata in B flat, D960
Andras Schiff (piano)
Decca 478 3018.

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Tue 6 Dec 2011 09:00
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Music Played

  • Mussorgsky arr. Tomita

    Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks in Their Shells from Pictures at an Exhibition

    Performers: Tomita

    • RCA PD89381.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    La poule (Nouvelles suites de pieces de clavecin 2eme livre)

    Performer: VΓ­kingur Γ“lafsson.

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • Archiv 477 5578.

  • 9.05am: Essential CD of the Week

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto in D, BWV972

      Performers: Alison Balsom (trumpet), Colm Carey (organ)

      • EMI 5 58047 2.

  • Luigi Boccherini

    String Quintet in C, G324 'La musica notturna della strade di Madrid'

    Performers: Cuarteto Casals

    • Harmonia Mundi HMC 902092.

  • 9.30am: Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

    • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

      Nocturnes, op.55

      Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

      • London 443 738-2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Va col canto lusingando' from Clori, Tirsi e Fileno

    Performers: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (soprano), Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan (director and harpsichord)

    • Harmonia Mundi HMU 907471.72.

  • 9.50am: Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

    • Modest Mussorgsky

      Pictures at an Exhibition (orch. Ashkenazy)

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

      • Decca 414 386-2.

  • 10.30am: Mavis Cheek's Choices

    • Luigi Cherubini

      Medea, Act 1 – 'Dei tuoi figli la madre'

      Performers: Maria Callas (Medea), Dallas Opera, Nicola Rescigno (conductor)

      • Myto 00164.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony no.6 in B minor, op.74 ('PathΓ©tique') – 1st movement

    Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Evgeny Mravinsky (conductor)

    • DG 477 5911.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Franz Schubert

      Piano Sonata in B flat, D960

      Performers: AndrΓ‘s Schiff (piano)

      • Decca 478 3018.

  • 11.40am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Grosse Fuge, op.133

      Performers: Juilliard Quartet

      • Sony 50954 12003.

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  • Tue 6 Dec 2011 09:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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