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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Arne Overtures; Artist of the Week: the Kuijken brothers; poet Jo Shapcott; Copland: Billy the Kid Suite.

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, who today feature in Haydn's Symphony No. 85 'La Reine'.

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
Copland: Billy the Kid Suite.
San Francisco Symphony,
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor).
RCA 09026 63511-2.

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Fri 29 Jun 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ΅k

    Allegro Scherzando (Cypresses, B.152, No. 11)

    Performers: Prague String Quartet

    • DG 463 165-2.

  • 9.03am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Horn Concerto No. 2, K.417

      Performers: Barry Tuckwell (horn), London Symphony Orchestra, Peter Maag (conductor)

      • DECCA 417 767-2.

  • 9.17am

    • Henry Purcell

      Lovely, lovely Albina

      Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Christopher Hogwood (spinet), Richard Campbell (viola da gamba)

      • DECCA 476 7467.

  • 9.20: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture to 'Alfred'

      Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 0722.

  • 9.33am

    • Gustav Holst

      A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

      Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

      • LYRITA SRCD.222.

  • 9.44am

    • Claude Debussy

      Pour le Piano

      Performers: Pascal Roge (piano)

      • DECCA 443 021-2.

  • 9.57: Artists of the Week - The Kuijken Family

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No. 85 'La Reine'

      Performers: Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Sigiswald Kuijken (director)

      • VIRGIN VBD 5 61659 2.

  • 10.26am

    • Edward MacDowell

      Mein Liebchen, wir sassen beisammen, Op.11 No.1

      Performers: Thomas Hampson (baritone), Armen Guzelimian (piano)

      • TELDEC 9031 72168-2.

  • 10.30: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • Benjamin Britten

      A Hymn to St Cecilia

      Performers: Choir of St John's College, Cambridge, Christopher Robinson (director)

      • NAXOS 8.554791.

  • 10.42: Sarah's Personal Shopper piece for Jo Shapcott

    • Henri Dutilleux

      Cortège (from Saraband and Cortège)

      Performers: Karen Geoghegan (bassoon), Philip Edward Fisher (piano)

      • CHANDOS 10521.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Norwegian Dance No.2

    Performers: Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, Felix Slatkin (conductor)

    • ROYAL CLASSICS ROY6464.

  • 10.51am

    • Max Bruch

      Romance for viola and orchestra, Op.85

      Performers: Janine Jensen (viola), Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • DECCA 475 8328.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Aaron Copland

      Billy the Kid Suite

      Performers: San Francisco Symphony, Michael Tilson-Thomas (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 63511-2.

  • 11.23am

    • Anton Bruckner

      Christus factus est

      Performers: Choir of St Mary's Cathedral Edinburgh, Duncan Ferguson (master of music)

      • DELPHIAN DCD34071.

  • 11.27am

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Octet, Op.20

      Performers: Christian Tetzlaff, Isabelle Faust, Lisa Batiashvili, Antje Weithaas (violins), Rachel Roberts, Ori Kam (violas), Tanya Tetzlaff, Quirine Viersen (cellos)

      • AVI-MUSIC 8553163.

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