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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Arne Overtures; Artist of the Week: the Kuijken brothers; Poet Jo Shapcott; Mozart: Requiem, K626.

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. Hear them in music by Pergolesi (La Serva Padrona) and Platti (Sonata in G major, Op.3).

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
Mozart: Requiem, K.626
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto)
Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor)
Willard White (bass)
Monteverdi Choir.

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Music Played

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle, Op. 126 No. 5

    Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)

    • PHILIPS 412 227-2.

  • 9.04am

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture

      Performers: Orchestra dell' Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Antonio Pappano (conductor)

      • EMI 370065-2.

  • 9.25: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture No. 3 in G (from 'Henry and Emma')

      Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 0722.

  • 9.30am

    • Franz Schubert

      Impromptu in B flat major, D.935 No. 3

      Performers: Maria Joao Pires (piano)

      • DG 457 550-2.

  • 9.45: Artists of the Week - The Kuijken Family

    • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      "Lo Conosco a Quegli Ochietti" (La Serva Padrona)

      Performers: Serpina: Patricia Biccire (soprano), Uberto: Donato Di Stefano (bass), La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (violin director)

      • ACCENT ACC96123D.

  • Edward Elgar

    Pomp and Circumstance March No. 4 in G

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 764015-2.

  • 9.56am

    • Richard Strauss

      Dance of the Seven Veils (Salome)

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

      • RCA GD 60874.

  • 10.06: Artists of the Week - The Kuijken Family

    • Platti

      Sonata in G major, Op. 3

      Performers: Barthold Kuijken (flute), Wieland Kuijken (bass viola da gamba), Robert Kohnen (harpsichord)

      • ACCENT ACC 30009.

  • 10.22am

    • Gerald Finzi

      Romance for string orchestra

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

      • DECCA 468 807-2.

  • 10.30: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • Arvo PΓ€rt

      Magnificat Antiphons: O Weisheit; O Immanuel

      Performers: Choir of King’s College Chapel, Cambridge, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

      • EMI 609004-2.

  • 10.41: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • Edward Elgar

      Introduction and Allegro

      Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

      • TELDEC 9031 73279-2.

  • Marc‐Antoine Charpentier

    Gigue Francaise (Concert pour quatre parties de violes, H.545)

    Performers: Les Arts Florissants, William Christie

    • ERATO 3984 25485-2.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Requiem, K.626

      Performers: Barbara Bonney (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Willard White (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists (with trombone solo from Susan Addison in the Tuba mirum), John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 420 197-2.

  • 11.48am

    • Gustav Holst

      Lyric Movement for Viola and Orchestra

      Performers: Cecil Aronowitz (viola), English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst (conductor)

      • LYRITA SRCD.223.

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