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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players; architect Ptolemy Dean; Sarah's Essential Choice: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Romantic Overtures - London Classical Players, Roger Norrington (conductor). EMI CDC 749889-2.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony.

10.30am
This week marks the 50th anniversary of the consecration of the new St Michael's Cathedral in Coventry, built beside the ruins of the old Gothic cathedral, which was destroyed by Luftwaffe bombing during World War II. Sarah Walker's guest this week is the British architect and TV presenter Ptolemy Dean, who specialises in historic preservation, as well as designing new buildings that are in keeping with their historic settings. He shares some of his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
DECCA 433 611-2.

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Tue 29 May 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • HΓ©rold arr. Lanchberry

    Clog Dance (La Fille mal gardΓ©e, Act I No. 17a)

    Performers: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, John Lanchberry (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 849-2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Sinfonia Concertante in B flat, Hob. I:105

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 423 105-2.

  • 9.24: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Robert Schumann

      Genoveva Overture, Op. 81

      Performers: London Classical Players, Roger Norrington (conductor)

      • EMI CDC 749889-2.

  • 9.30: Artists of the Week - Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony

    • Percy Grainger

      Near Woodstock Town; The Sussex Mummers' Carol (arr. Perna)

      Performers: Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDH55236.

  • 9.40am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Violin Sonata in C minor, K.403

      Performers: Isabelle van Keulen (violin), Ronald Brautigam (piano)

      • PHILIPS 422 706-2.

  • 9.54am

    • George Gershwin

      An American in Paris

      Performers: New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

      • SONY SMK47529.

  • 10.14: Artists of the Week - Stephen Layton and his choir, Polyphony

    • Eric Whitacre

      Sleep

      Performers: Polyphony, Stephen Layton (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA67543.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in B flat, RV362 'La Caccia'

    Performers: English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director)

    • CRD 33489.

  • 10.30: Ptolemy Dean's Choices

    • Jean Sibelius

      Intermezzo (Karelia Suite, Op. 11 – opening movement)

      Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

      • EMI 217674-2.

  • Geoffrey Burgon

    Nunc Dimittis

    Performers: Thomas Hopkinson (treble), John Wallace (trumpet), The Choir of King’s College Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    • DECCA 460 021-2.

  • 10.46am

    • Astor Piazzolla

      Libertango

      Performers: Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Nesto Marconi (bandoneon), Antonio Agri (violin), Leonardo Marzoni (piano), Horatio Malvicino (guitar), Hector Console (bass)

      • SONY S2K92857.

  • Richard Wagner - Siegfried's Death and Funeral March (Gotterdammerung)

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Hector Berlioz

      Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • DECCA 433 611-2.

  • 11.54am

    • Henry Purcell

      An Evening Hymn

      Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Christopher Hogwood (organ), Anthony Rooley (lute), Richard Campbell (viola da gamba)

      • DECCA 476 7467.

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  • Tue 29 May 2012 09:00
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