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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen; Howard Jacobson; Sarah's Essential Choice: CPE Bach: Concerto in E flat, Wq 47.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen - CORO COR10699

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and Sarah's recommended performance by the next pianist in Peter Donohoe's survey of 50 Great Pianists. This week in Essential Classics as part of Piano Season, Sarah will be showcasing Italian and Latin American pianists and piano music.

10.30am
This week the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize is announced, and Sarah Walker's guest is the acclaimed novelist Howard Jacobson, who won the prize in 2010 for The Finkler Question. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing, Who's Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights.

As well as his fiction, Jacobson is also a columnist for the Independent and has written and presented several television programmes, including Creation, the first part of the critically acclaimed Channel 4 series, The Bible: A History. Recent television programmes, including Jesus the Jew, have also been widely admired.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

CPE Bach: Concerto in E flat for harpsichord, fortepiano and orchestra, Wq 47
LΓ©on Berben (harpsichord)
Robert Hill (fortepiano)
Musica Antiqua Köln
Reinhard Goebel (conductor)
ARCHIV 479 0377.

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Tue 16 Oct 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Etude in C

    Performers: Roberto Prosseda (piano)

    • DECCA 476 5277.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino (Overture)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 419 869-2.

  • 9.07: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Cavalli

      Salve Regina

      Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16053.

  • Ibert

    Escales

    Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)

    • SONY S70475C88697720602.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Fantaisie in B minor, Op. 28

    Performers: Roberto Szidon (piano)

    • DG 431 747-2.

  • Franz von SuppΓ¨

    Leichte Kavallerie - overture

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 3199.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Toccata in F, BWV 540

    Performers: Ton Koopman (organ of the St Jacobi-Kirche, Hamburg)

    • TELDEC 2564 69281-7.

  • Beethoven

    Piano Sonata no.32 in C minor, op.111

    Performers: Maurizio Pollini (piano)

    • DG 449 740-2.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Performers: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge, Richard Marlow (conductor)

    • SONY 88697532092.

  • 10.30: Howard Jacobson's Choices

    • Franz Schubert

      Impromptu in G flat, D.899 No. 3

      Performers: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

      • SONY S2K 53457.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Erbarme dich", from St Matthew Passion, BWV 244

    Performers: Christa Ludwig (contralto), Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

    • EMI 7 63058 2.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

      Concerto in E flat for harpsichord and fortepiano, 2 flutes, 2 horns, strings and continuo

      Performers: Léon Berben (harpsichord), Robert Hill (fortepiano), Musica Antiqua Köln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 479 0377.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    4 Pieces for String Quartet, op.81

    Performers: Gewandhaus-Quartet

    • NCA 60205.

  • Franz Liszt

    RΓ©miniscences de Don Juan (Grande Fantaisie), S418

    Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

    • DG 479 0014.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in G flat, D.899 No. 3

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    "Erbarme dich" (St Matthew Passion, BWV 244)

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Concerto in E flat, Wq 47

  • Franz Liszt

    Reminiscences de Don Juan (Grande Fantasie)

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