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27/06/2012

With Sarah Walker. Includes CD of the Week: Arne Overtures; Artist of the Week: the Kuijken brothers; Sarah's guest is poet Jo Shapcott; Sibelius: En Saga, Op 9 (original version).

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Arne Overtures - Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage: CHANDOS CHAN 0722

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Kuijken brothers. Today we hear Sigiswald Kuijken conduct a complete performance of Haydn's Harmoniemesse.

10.30am
This week one of the key features from Olympiads of the ancient world is re-created in London's Southbank Centre. Poetry Parnassus, the largest poetry festival ever staged in the UK, will bring together poets and spoken-word artists from all over the world, with all 204 competing Olympic nations represented. Sarah Walker's guest this week is Britain's representative, Jo Shapcott.

11am
Sibelius: En Saga, Op. 9 (original 1892 version)
Lahti Symphony Orchestra
Osmo Vanska (conductor)
BIS CD-800.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto in G, K.453

  • ΄³Γ¤°ω²Τ±π΄Ϊ±π±τ³Ω

    Praeludium

    Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

    • EMI 2 68161 2.

  • 9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture No. 7 in D 'Comus'

      Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 0722.

  • 9.11am

    • Edvard Grieg

      Holberg Suite, Op. 40

      Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

      • HANNSLER CD 98.995.

  • 9.32am

    • Ireland

      Sea Fever; The Bells of San Marie

      Performers: Bryn Terfel (baritone), Malcolm Martineau (piano)

      • DG 445 946-2.

  • 9.41am

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Souvenir d'un lieu cher

      Performers: Julia Fischer (violin), Yakov Kreizberg (piano)

      • PENTATONE 5186095.

  • 9.58am

    • Sullivan

      "When I was a lad" (HMS Pinafore)

      Performers: George Baker (baritone), Glyndebourne Festival Chorus, Pro Arte Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)

      • HMVD 573056-2.

  • Gow

    Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston

    Performers: Jordi Savall (viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (psaltery), Frank Guire (bodhran)

    • ALIA VOX AVSA 9878.

  • 10.05: Artists of the Week - The Kuijken Family

    • Joseph Haydn

      Harmoniemesse, Hob.XXII No.14: Credo - Credo in unum Deum, Et incarnatus est, Et resurrexi

      Performers: Sandrine Piau (soprano), Monica Groop (mezzo-soprano), Christoph PrΓ©gardien (tenor), Harry van der Kamp (bass), Namur Chamber Choir, La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

      • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472 77337-2.

  • 10.30: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Piano Sonata No. 2: Vivace

      Performers: Sviatoslav Richter (piano)

      • DHR 7758.

  • 10.40: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • John Adams

      Hoe-down (Gnarly Buttons)

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), London Sinfonietta, John Adams (conductor)

      • NONESUCH 7559 79465-2.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    No.6 Allegro (Gaite Parisienne)

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 459 445-2.

  • 10.50am

    • Bolcom

      Graceful Ghost

      Performers: Gil Shaham (violin), Jonathan Feldman (piano)

      • DG 463 483-2.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Jean Sibelius

      En Saga, Op. 9 (original 1892 version)

      Performers: Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Osmo Vänskä (conductor)

      • BIS CD-800.

  • 11.22am

    • Clara Schumann

      Er ist gekommen; Warum willst du and're fragen

      Performers: Werner Gura (tenor), Christoph Berner (piano)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • 11.26am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto in G, K.453

      Performers: Annerose Schmidt (piano), Dresden Philharmonic, Kurt Masur (conductor)

      • BERLIN CLASSICS 0031322BC.

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