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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen; Howard Jacobson; Sarah's Essential Choice: Concerto in C for flute, harp and orchestra, K299.

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

Mozart: Concerto in C for flute, harp and orchestra, K.299
Susan Palma (flute)
Nancy Allen (harp)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
DG 469 3622.

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Thu 18 Oct 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Scarlatti/Montero

    Improvisation on Sonata in D minor

    Performers: Gabriela Montero (piano)

    • EMI 5 14837 2.

  • Romero

    Fuga con pajarillo

    Performers: Simón Bolívar Youth Orchestra of Venezuela, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

    • DG 477 9154.

  • 9.09: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

      Stabat Mater Dolorosa

      Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16099.

  • Niccolò Paganini

    Sonata con variazioni on a theme from 'L'amor marinaro' by Joseph Weigl

    Performers: Salvatore Accardo (violin), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DG 463 754-2.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Where am I?

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

  • Hector Berlioz

    Béatrice et Bénédict Overture

    Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)

    • SONY S70475C/88697720602.

  • Granados

    Quejas ó La maja y el ruiseñor (Complaints, or The maiden and the nightingale), from Goyes

    Performers: Gabriela Montero (piano)

    • EMI 5 58039 2.

  • Zelenka

    Hipocondrie in A, ZWV 63

    Performers: Capriccio Barockorchester, Dominik Kiefer (violin and direction)

    • PAN PC 10274.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    'Porgi amor qualche ristoro', from The Marriage of Figaro, Act 2

    Performers: Leyla Gencer (soprano - Countess), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Silvio Varviso (conductor)

    • GLYNDEBOURNE FESTIVAL OPERA GFOCD 001-62.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto no.3 in C, op.26

    Performers: Martha Argerich (piano), Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 477 9145.

  • 10.30: Howard Jacobson's Choices

    • Franz Schubert

      "Der Leiermann", from Winterreise

      Performers: Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Daniel Barenboim (piano)

      • DG 463 501-2.

  • Antonín Dvořák

    Concerto for cello and orchestra in B minor, Op. 104: 1st movement

    Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

    • EMI 7 49306 2.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Concerto in C for flute, harp and orchestra, K.299

      Performers: Susan Palma (flute), Nancy Allen (harp), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

      • DG 427 677-2.

  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Vox Domini super aquas Jordanis

    Performers: Ex Cathedra, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Concerto Palatino, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67957.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Sonata for piano and violin No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

    Performers: Augustin Dumay (violin), Maria João Pires (piano)

    • DG 479 0378.

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  • Thu 18 Oct 2012 09:00
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