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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair; Sarah's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Symphony No 6, Op 74 (Pathetique).

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Altre Follie 1500 - 1750 - music from Hesperion XXI and Jordi Savall: ALIA VOX AV9844

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the violinist and conductor Thomas Zehetmair.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 in B minor Op.74 'Pathetique'
Philadelphia Orchestra
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
ONDINE ODE 11315.

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Fri 4 May 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Tomlinson

    2 Miniature Dances – Rigadoon

    Performers: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ernest Tomlinson (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.223513.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Performers: Nicholas KraemerΒ (harpsichord), Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • DECCA 452 7072.

  • Benjamin

    Overture to an Italian Comedy

    Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Myer Fredman (conductor)

    • LYRITA SRCD 2337.

  • 9.20: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Sonate "La Follia", Op. 1 No. 12, RV63 (1705)

      Performers: Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall (director)

      • ALIA VOX AV9844.

  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Thomas Zehetmair

    • Karol Szymanowski

      Three Paganini Caprices Op. 40 (Nos. 20, 21 & 24)

      Performers: Thomas Zehetmair (violin), Silke Avenhaus (piano)

      • EMI 55560727.

  • Edward Elgar

    They are at Rest

    Performers: Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

    • SIGNUM SIGCD 281.

  • Artist of the Week - Thomas Zehetmair

    • Mozart

      Violin Concerto No. 2 in D K.211

      Performers: Thomas Zehetmair (violin/conductor), Philharmonia

      • TELDEC 2564681031.

  • Erich Wolfgang Korngold

    Der Sturm

    Performers: Konzertvereinigung Linzer Theaterchor, Bruckner Orchester Linz, Caspar Richter (conductor)

    • ASV CD DCA 1146.

  • Maurice DuruflΓ©

    Tota Pulchra Es

    Performers: Ascension Music Chorus, Dennis Keene (conductor)

    • DELOS DE3138.

  • Ysaye

    Violin Sonata No. 5 in G

    Performers: Thomas Zehetmair (violin)

    • ECM 1835.

  • 10:30: James May's Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Sonata No. 23 in F minor Op. 57 'Appassionata'

      Performers: Richard Goode (piano)

      • NONESUCH 79391.

  • Bach (arr. Ralph Allwood)

    Die mit Tränen säen (arr. from the B flat minor prelude from the Well-Tempered Clavier, Bo

    Performers: Rodolfus Choir, Ralph Allwood (conductor)

    • SIGNUM SIGCD243.

  • 11am:

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Symphony No. 6 'Pathetique'

      Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)

      • ONDINE ODE 11315.

  • Howells

    Bliss's Ballet

    Performers: John McCabe (piano)

    • HYPERION CDH55152.

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  • Fri 4 May 2012 09:00
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