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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. 9.00am CD of the Week: London Mozart Players perform symphonies by Michael Haydn. 11.00am Essential Choice: Martinu: Sinfonia Concertante No 2 in B flat.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: London Mozart Players conducted by Matthias Bamert perform symphonies by Michael Haydn: CHANDOS CHAN 9352

9.30am
A daily brainteaser, and Sarah's recommended performance by the next pianist in Peter Donohoe's survey of 50 Great Pianists. This week's focus is British piano music and pianism.

10.30am
The International Day of Peace is celebrated at the end of this week, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is Satish Kumar, the current editor of Resurgence magazine, and long-term peace and environment activist. Born in India in 1936, he joined the wandering Jain sect at the age of only nine, but left them at 18 to devote himself to turning Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality. He settled in the UK in 1973, and has been the guiding spirit behind a number of internationally-respected ecological and educational ventures including the Schumacher College International Centre for ecological studies in South Devon. A passionate advocate of nuclear disarmament, his most notable achievement was the 8000-mile 'pilgrimage for peace' which he and a friend undertook in 1962, walking between the four capitals of the nuclear world - Moscow, Paris, London and the USA - carrying no money, and depending on the kindness and hospitality of strangers. In his 50th year he undertook another similar pilgrimage, walking 2000 miles around the holy places of Britain to celebrate his love of life and nature. He has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Plymouth and Lancaster, and international awards for his peace work. In recognition of his commitment to animal welfare and compassionate living, he was recently elected vice-president of the RSPCA.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Martinu: Sinfonia Concertante No. 2 in B flat for violin, cello, oboe, bassoon and chamber orchestra, H.322
Andrew Watkinson (violin)
Stephen Orton (cello)
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
Stephen Reay (bassoon)
Sinfonia of London
Richard Hickox (conductor)
VIRGIN 7 59575 2 tks 7-9.

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Music Played

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat, Op. 64 No. 1 ('Le petit chien')

    Performers: Peter Katin (piano)

    • RP MUSIC RP002.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Michael Haydn

      Symphony in E flat, P26

      Performers: London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN9352.

  • Quilter

    3 Studies, Op. 4

    Performers: David Owen Norris (piano)

    • EM RECORDS EMRCD002.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6 No. 12

    Performers: Simon Standage, Micaela Comberti (violins), Jaap ter Linden (cello), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord & direction)

    • DG 479 0457.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Granados

    Valses poΓ©ticos

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67565.

  • Victoria

    "Requiem aeternam" from Missa pro defunctis

    Performers: Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)

    • DECCA / DG 478 3734.

  • 9.56:

    • Robert Schumann

      Fantasie in C, Op. 17

      Performers: Clifford Curzon (piano)

      • DECCA 478 4389.

  • 10.30: SATISH KUMAR'S CHOICES

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Pas d'action "White Swan" from Act 1 scene 2 of Swan Lake

      Performers: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Kirill Terentiev (solo violin), Zenon Zalitsailo (solo cello), Valery Gergiev (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 4273.

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Ya Hayyo Ya Qayyum

    Performers: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (vocalist)

    • WORLD MUSIC NETWORK 1078.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Martinu

      Sinfonia Concertante No. 2 in B flat for oboe, bassoon, violin, cello and chamber orchestr

      Performers: Andrew Watkinson (violin), Stephen Orton (cello), Nicholas Daniel (oboe) and Stephen Reay (bassoon), Sinfonia of London, Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • VIRGIN 7 59575 2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A minor, D.845

    Performers: Paul Lewis (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902136.37.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz in D flat, Op. 64 No. 1 'Le petit chien'

  • Michael Haydn

    Symphony in E flat, P26

  • Roger Quilter

    3 Studies, Op. 4

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6 No. 12

  • Enrique Granados

    Valses poeticos

  • TomΓ΅s Luis de Victoria

    Requiem aeternum (Missa pro defunctis)

  • Claude Debussy

    Le matin d'un jour de fete (Iberia)

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasie in C, Op. 17

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pas d'action 'White Swan' (Swan Lake, Act 1 scene 2)

  • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

    Ya Hayyo Ya Qayyum

  • Bohuslav MartinΕ―

    Sinfonia Concertante No. 2 in B flat, H. 322

  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata in A minor, D.845

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  • Tue 18 Sep 2012 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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