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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin; Sarah's Essential Choice: Wagner: Overture and Venusberg Music (Tannhauser).

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans BrΓΌggen.

10.30am
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.

Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.

In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Wagner: Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music
Columbia Symphony Orchestra
Bruno Walter (conductor)
SONY 64456.

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Thu 8 Nov 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Epistle Sonata in F, K.145

    Performers: Peter Hurford (organ), Johan Kracht, Henk Rubingh (violins), Wim Straesser (cello)

    • DECCA 421 297-2.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Variations on a Rococo Theme

    Performers: Mstislav Rostropovich (cello), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 447 413- 2.

  • 9.22: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Joseph Achron arr. Auer

      Hebrew Melody, Op. 33

      Performers: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Daniel Gortler (piano)

      • RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 82876 50470-2Β .

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      What am I?

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

  • Carl Nielsen

    Maskerade Overture

    Performers: San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)

    • DECCA 460 985-2.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in F, K.525

    Performers: Vladimir Horowitz (piano)

    • CBS MK 42410.

  • Jules Massenet

    Meditation from Thais

    Performers: Joshua Bell (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)

    • DECCA 433 519-2.

  • 10.01: Artist of the Week - Frans BrΓΌggen

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 (Unfinished)

      Performers: Orchestra of the 18th Century, Frans BrΓΌggen (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 442 117-2.

  • 10.30: Dame Athene Donald's Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Sonata in F, Op. 24, 'Spring' (1st movement, Allegro)

      Performers: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Claudio Arrau (piano)

      • PHILIPS 442 651-2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Suite for viola and orchestra (Group III: Musette, Polka melancolique, Galop)

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

    • HYPERION CDA67839.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Exultate Deo

    Performers: Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

    • NEWTON 8802042.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Richard Wagner

      Tannhäuser: Overture and Venusberg Music

      Performers: The Occidental College Concert Choir, Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Bruno Walter (conductor)

      • SONY 64456.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Piano Quintet in C minor, Op 115

    Performers: The Schubert Ensemble

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10576.

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  • Thu 8 Nov 2012 09:00
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