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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen; Howard Jacobson; Sarah's Essential Choice: Brahms: Concerto in A minor, Op 102.

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

Brahms: Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra, op.102
Jascha Heifetz (violin)
Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra
Alfred Wallenstein (conductor)
SONY S70475C / 88697720602.

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Wed 17 Oct 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Per aspera – No. 6 in F major from 15 Etudes de virtuosite, Op. 72

    Performers: Cristina Ortiz (piano)

    • COLLINS CC-1152.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Te Deum

      Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16033.

  • JoaquΓ­n Rodrigo

    El album de Cecilia

    Performers: Artur Pizarro (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.557923.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 in D, Op. 25 ('Classical')

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 7655.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Tafelmusik Part 2: Conclusion in D

    Performers: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, Petra MΓΌllejans, Gottfried von der Goltz (violins/direction)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902042.45.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Variations Concertantes, Op. 17

    Performers: Lynn Harrell (cello), Bruno Canino (piano)

    • DECCA 430 198-2.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse Triste, op.44 no.1

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)

    • RCA 82876-55706-2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto no.17 in G, K453

    Performers: Daniel Barenboim (piano and direction), English Chamber Orchestra

    • EMI 5 72930 2.

  • 10.30: Howard Jacobson's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      "La ci darem la mano", from Don Giovanni

      Performers: Eberhard Wächter (Don Giovanni), Graziella Sciutti (Zerlina), Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

      • EMI 7 63078 2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in F, Op. 135: 1st movement

    Performers: Juilliard Quartet

    • SONY 5095412003.

  • Percy Grainger

    Shallow Brown

    Performers: John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Ambrosian Singers, English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)

    • LONDON 425 159-2.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Johannes Brahms

      Concerto in A minor for violin, cello and orchestra, Op. 102

      Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello), RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Alfred Wallenstein (conductor)

      • SONY S70475C / 88697720602.

  • Claude Debussy

    Children's Corner

    Performers: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

    • DG 479 0056.

  • Gustav Holst

    The Perfect Fool - ballet music

    Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHSA5069.

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