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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen; Howard Jacobson; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Duett-Concertino in F AV147.

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

R Strauss: Duett-Concertino in F for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, AV 147
Nicole Kern (clarinet)
Higinio ArruΓ© (bassoon)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Paavo JΓ€rvi (conductor)
PENTATONE 5186 060.

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Fri 19 Oct 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Waltz in A flat, Op. posth

    Performers: Ingrid Fliter (piano)

    • EMI 6 98351 2.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Emperor Waltz, Op. 437

    Performers: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Frisay (conductor)

    • DG 477 9156.

  • 9.14: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • George Frideric Handel

      Gloria patri et filio', from Dixit Dominus

      Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16099.

  • Isaac AlbΓ©niz

    Cordoba and Seguidillas from Cantos de Espana

    Performers: Rafael Orozco (piano)

    • AUVIDIS V 4663.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Overture to Zais

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 479 0374.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Romance for string quartet

    Performers: Borodin Quartet

    • ONYX 4002.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cockaigne (In London Town), op.40

    Performers: Halle, Mark Elder (conductor)

    • HALLE CD HLL 7501.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, op.58

    Performers: Artur Rubinstein

    • RCA GD60822.

  • 10.30: Howard Jacobson's Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      'Schlummert ein', from Cantata BWV 82

      Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)

      • EMI 3 97732 2.

  • Sarah's 'Personal Shopper' Choice

    • Spohr

      Sonata in G for cello and harp, op.115 - 2nd mvt (Larghetto)

      Performers: Klaus Storck (cello), Helga Storck (harp)

      • WARNER 2564 60428-2.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Richard Strauss

      Duett-Concertino in F for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, AV 147

      Performers: Nicole Kern (clarinet), Higinio ArruΓ© (bassoon), The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo JΓ€rvi (conductor)

      • PENTATONE 5186 060.

  • Robert Schumann

    Waldszenen, Op. 82

    Performers: Claudio Arrau (piano)

    • PHILIPS 420 871-2.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D for 3 trumpets, 2 oboes, timpani, strings and continuo

    Performers: Hakan Hardenberger, Michael Laird, William Houghton (trumpets), Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Iona Brown (direction)

    • PHILIPS 420 954-2.

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    'Minstrel Impressions from Ciclo brasileiro

    Performers: Cristina Ortiz (piano)

    • DECCA 417 650-2.

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