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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including 9.30am Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble in Poulenc: Sonata for clarinet and bassoon. Spohr: Nonet, Op 31; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bach: Partita No 6.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado. DG 423 104-2.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Nash Ensemble. Today they perform a pair of contrasting works: Poulenc's Sonata for clarinet and bassoon, and Spohr's Nonet op.31

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is actor and director Philip Franks, well known for his performances on stage and screen, including The Darling Buds of May, Heartbeat, Bleak House and numerous leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Today Philip discusses a piece of music that makes him glad to be alive, as well as music he likes to listen to while on a journey

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Bach
Partita no.6 in E minor, BWV 830
Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
L'OISEAU LYRE 440217.

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Tue 3 Jan 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude from Cello Suite no.1 in G, BWV 1007

    Performers: Steven Isserlis (cello)

    • HYPERION CDA67541.

  • 9:02: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Overture, The Fair Melusine, op.32

      Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 423 104-2.

  • Galuppi

    Sonata in C

    Performers: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

    • DECCA 417 772-2.

  • 9:30: Artists of the Week: The Nash Ensemble

    • Francis Poulenc

      Sonata for clarinet and bassoon

      Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Richard Hosford (clarinet), Ursula Leveaux (bassoon)

      • HYPERION CDA67256.

  • Nicola Porpora

    Cantata no.12, 'Dal povero mio cor'

    Performers: Iestyn Davies (countertenor), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (director)

    • HYPERION CDA67894.

  • Johann Strauss II - Unter Donner und Blitz – polka, op.324

    Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

  • 10:00: Artists of the Week: The Nash Ensemble

    • Spohr

      Nonet in F, op.31

      Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Judith Pearce (flute), Robin Miller (oboe), Antony Pay (clarinet), Brian Wightman (bassoon), John Pigneguy (horn), Marcia Crayford (violin), Brian Hawkins (viola), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Rodney Slatford (double bass)

      • CRD 3354.

  • 10:30: Philip Franks' Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Overture to The Magic Flute, K620

      Performers: The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • Archiv 449 166-2.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes – Act 1, scene 2 (excerpt)

    Performers: Ameral Gunson (Auntie), Anne Collins (Mrs Sedley), Alan Opie (Balstrode), John Graham-Hall (Bob Boles), Yvonne Barclay (first niece), Pamela Helen Stephen second niece), Janice Watson (Ellen Orford), Roderick Williams (Ned Keene), Philip Langridge (Peter Grimes), Matthew Best (Hobson), London Symphony Chorus, City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 94478.

  • 11:00: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006

      Performer: Isabelle Faust.

      Performers: Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)

      • L’OISEAU-LYRE 440 217-2.

  • Claude Debussy

    La Mer

    Performers: The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

    • DG 439 896-2.

Broadcast

  • Tue 3 Jan 2012 09:00
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