Wednesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble in Holloway: Serenade in C. Schubert: Octet. Ravel: Introduction and Allegro; Essential Choice: Bartok: Dance Suite.
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 we him them in a pair of twentieth-century works: Holloway's Serenade in C op.41, commissioned by the Nash Ensemble in 1978 and scored for the same instrumentation as the Schubert Octet; and Ravel's Introduction and Allegro, written for the unorthodox combination of harp, flute, clarinet and string quartet
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 mentions the first classical record he bought himself, and discusses a piece that he finds particularly moving
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bartok
Dance Suite
London Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 425039.
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Igor Stravinsky
Pulcinella – no.18, Vivo
Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
- DECCA 478 3028.
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9:02: Sarah's CD of the Week
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Felix Mendelssohn
Overture for Wind Instruments, op.24
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 423 104-2.
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Johann Christoph Bach
'Mit weinen hebt sich's an' (It begins with weeping)
Performers: Clare Wilkinson (mezzo-soprano), Nicholas Mulroy (alto), James Gilchrist (tenor), Matthew Brook (bass), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- Soli Deo Gloria SDG 715.
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Franz Liszt
Orpheus – tone poem, S98
Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)
- DECCA 002898 477 9525.
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9:30: Artists of the Week: The Nash Ensemble
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Maurice Ravel
Introduction & Allegro
Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Skaila Kanga (harp), Marcia Crayford (violin), David Ogden (violin), Roger Chase (viola), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Philippa Davies (flute), Michael Collins (clarinet)
- CRD 3346.
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Zelenka
Capriccio no. 1 in D
Performers: Camerata Bern, Alexander van Wijnkoop (director)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93785.
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Gabriel Fauré
Le Secret
Performers: Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92792.
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10:00: Artists of the Week: The Nash Ensemble
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Holloway
Serenade in C, op.41, for clarinet, bassoon, horn, string quartet and double bass
Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Michael Collins (clarinet), Brian Wightman (bassoon), Frank Lloyd (horn), Leo Phillips (violin), Fiona McCapra (violin), Roger Chase (viola), Christopher van Kampen (cello), Duncan McTier (double bass)
- HYPERION CDA66930.
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10:30: Philip Franks' Choices
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Felix Mendelssohn
Nocturne from incidental music to A Midsummer Night's Dream
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, André Previn (conductor)
- EMI 5 74981 2.
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Leonard Bernstein
'Make our Garden Grow', from Candide
Performers: Soloists including Jerry Hadley (Candide), June Anderson (Cunegonde), London Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- DG 429 734-2.
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Johannes Brahms
Intermezzo in A, Op.118 No.2
Performers: Julius Katchen (piano)
- LONDON 455 247-2.
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11:00: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Béla Bartók
Dance Suite
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)
- DECCA 425 039-2.
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11:16am
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Claude Debussy
Suite Bergamasque
Performers: Pascal Rogé (piano)
- ONYX 4018.
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11:35am
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Concerto for Piano, Trumpet and Strings, op.35
Performers: Martha Argerich (piano), Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Orchestra della svizzera Italiana, Alexander Vedernikov (conductor)
- EMI 5 04504 2.
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Gabriel Fauré
'Green', from Cinq Mélodies de Venise, op.58 no.3
Performers: Elly Ameling (soprano), Dalton Baldwin (piano)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92792.
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- Wed 4 Jan 2012 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3