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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: pianist and conductor Vladimir Ashkenazy; Novelist Mavis Cheek; Essential Choice: Strauss: Metamorphosen, Op 142.

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.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is the novelist Mavis Cheek who introduces her essential pieces of classical music, and Sarah acts as her Personal Shopper, playing her a mystery piece.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Richard Strauss
Metamorphosen for 23 solo strings, op.142
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 477 9814.

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Fri 9 Dec 2011 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Contredanse from La Guirlande

    Performers: Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)

    • ERATO 8573-85774-2.

  • 9.01: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto in A, BWV 1055

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

      • EMI 5 58047 2.

  • Luigi Cherubini

    Marche funèbre

    Performers: Corydon Orchestra, Matthew Best (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA66805.

  • Wolf

    Italian Serenade

    Performers: Hagen Quartet: Lukas Hagen (violin 1), Rainer Schmidt (violin 2), Veronika Hagen (viola), Clemens Hagen (cello)

    • DG 427 669-2.

  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Vladimir Ashkenazy

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Voyevoda – symphonic ballad, op.78

      Performers: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

      • DECCA 455 971-2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 869

    Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)

    • DECCA 475 6832.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto no.3 in C, op.26

    Performers: Evgeny Kissin (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • EMI 2 64536 2.

  • 10.30: Mavis Cheek's Choice

    • Johannes Brahms

      'Selig sind, die da Leid tragen' from German Requiem, op.45

      Performers: New England Conservatory Chorus, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Erich Leinsdorf (conductor)

      • RCA GD86800.

  • Personal Shopper

    • Constant Lambert

      Suite from Anna Karenina (1948) - Main titles and opening scene

      Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Concert Orchestra, Rumon Gamba

      • Chandos CHAN 10459.

  • Johann Strauss II (arr. Schoenberg)

    Rosen aus dem Suden, op.388

    Performers: Boston Symphony Chamber Players

    • DG 463 667-2.

  • 11.00: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Richard Strauss

      Metamorphosen, study for 23 solo strings, op.142

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

      • DG 477 9814.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartettsatz in C minor, D703

    Performers: Borodin Quartet: RubΓ©n Aharonian (violin 1), Andrei Abramenkov (violin 2), Igor Naidin (viola), Valentin Berlinsky (cello)

    • ONYX 4002.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphony of Psalms

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    • DG 477 8730.

Broadcast

  • Fri 9 Dec 2011 09:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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