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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: the Complete Faure piano music performed by Paul Crossley; Artist of the Week: soprano Barbara Bonney; Dr Christian Jessen.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week, Faure: The Complete Piano Works, performed by Paul Crossley.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, soprano Barbara Bonney.

10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest is Dr Christian Jessen, the presenter the BAFTA award-winning 'Embarrassing Bodies'. He is involved in a number of public health campaigns and works closely with various health charities to look for new ways of educating people in health matters, and of demystifying the medical profession. He has published two books so far, 'Supersize vs Superskinny' and 'Can I Just Ask'. He is an accomplished oboist, performing in public from time to time.

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Thu 16 Aug 2012 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Franz Schreker

    Prelude to Die Gezeichneten

  • Johann Strauss II

    Polka 'Unter Donner und Blitz'

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor)

    • DG 439439 2.

  • 9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Gabriel Fauré

      Impromptu No. 2 in F minor Op. 34

      Performers: Paul Crossley (piano)

      • CRD CRD3406.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 32 in G K.318

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

    • PHILIPS 422 257 2.

  • 9.17:

    • Maurice Ravel

      Introduction and Allegro

      Performers: The Nash Ensemble

      • CRD CRD3446.

  • Bacewicz

    Oberek no 2

    Performers: Midori (violin), Robert McDonald (piano)

    • SONY CLASSICAL SK52568.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Scherzo capriccioso Op.66

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: István Kertész.

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, István Kertész (conductor)

    • DECCA 417 724 2.

  • 9.44: Artist of the Week - Barbara Bonney

    • Henry Purcell

      Oh, fair Cedaria

      Performers: Barbara Bonney (soprano), Mark Caudle (bass viol), David Miller (theorbo), Robert King (chamber organ)

      • HYPERION KING 2.

  • 9.51:

    • Jean Sibelius

      The Oceanides Op. 73

      Performers: Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

      • ONDINE ODE 914 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo op 117 no in E flat

    Performers: Stephen Kovacevich (piano)

    • PHILIPS 442 589 2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Contrapunctus 9 from the Art of Fugue

    Performers: Musica Antiqua Köln

    • ARCHIV 447 293 2.

  • 10.11: Artist of the Week - Barbara Bonney

    • Joseph Haydn

      Final part of 'Summer' from The Seasons

      Performers: Barbara Bonney (soprano) – ‘Hanne’, Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor) – ‘Lukas’, Andreas Schmidt (bass) – ‘Simon’, The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 431818 2.

  • 10.30: Dr Christian Jessen's Choices

    • Schreker

      Prelude to Die Gezeichneten

      Performers: Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Lothar Zagrosek (conductor)

      • DECCA 444 442 2.

  • Lanner

    Styrian Dances

    Performers: The Boskovsky Ensemble, Willi Boskovsky (violin & director)

    • VANGUARD 08801571.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Kyrie K90

    Performers: Arnold Schoenberg Choir, Concentus Musicus Wien, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (director)

    • TELDEC 4509 98928 2.

  • Josef Lanner

    Styrian Dances

Broadcast

  • Thu 16 Aug 2012 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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