Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel; Artist of the Week: pianist Noriko Ogawa; Schubert: Symphony No 4 (Tragic).
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel - HELIOS CDH55034
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Noriko Ogawa
10.30am
This Friday (16th November) it's Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Children in Need, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the British author Anne Fine, the second Children's Laureate from 2001-2003 and a distinguished prize-winning writer for children of all ages.
Anne has written more than fifty books for children and eight books for adults, many of them having won prestigious awards. Goggle-Eyes won the Guardian Children's Fiction Award and the Carnegie Medal and was adapted for television by the Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ; her novel The Tulip Touch won the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; Flour Babies won the Carnegie Medal and the Whitbread Children's Book of the Year Award; and Madame Doubtfire has become a major feature film starring Robin Williams.
Anne's books for adults include The Killjoy, her first novel, which received critical acclaim and was runner up for the David Higham Prize for Fiction. Two of her other novels include Taking the Devil's Advice and Telling Liddy and have both been adapted for radio.
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Schubert: Symphony No.4 in C minor 'Tragic'
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Gerald Finzi
Five Bagatelles: Fughetta, Allegro vivace
Performers: Emma Johnson (clarinet), Malcolm Martineau (piano)
- ASV CDDCA787.
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9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Antonio Vivaldi
Oboe Concerto in C major, RV 447
Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe/conductor), Peterborough String Orchestra
- HELIOS CDH55034.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture Op. 96
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10088X(2).
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Claude Debussy
Deux Arabesques
Performers: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
- PHILIPS 422 404-2.
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Today's Brainteaser
Mystery Piece
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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9.37: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa
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Modest Mussorgsky
Khovanshchina Prelude 'Dawn over the Moscow River'
Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)
- BIS 905.
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CristΓ³bal de Morales
Missa pro defunctis a 5: Graduale
Performers: La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall (conductor)
- ALIA VOX AVSA 9867.
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Alexander Glazunov
Mazurka in G major Op. 18
Performers: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, Tadaaki Otaka (conductor)
- BIS 1308.
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10.02: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No. 4 in G minor, Op. 40
Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano), Malmo Symphony Orchestra, Owain Arwel Hughes (conductor)
- BIS 975.
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10.30: Anne Fine's Choices
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Gabriel FaurΓ©
Dolly Suite
Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Seiji Ozawa (conductor)
- DG 449 8462.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: 'Dalla sua pace, la mia dipende'
Performers: Don Ottavio: Luigi Alva (tenor), Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
- EMI 5667992.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 4 'Tragic'
Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review
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11.30: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa
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Claude Debussy
Ballade Slave
Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)
- BIS 1955/56.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 5 BWV 1050
Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (director/harpsichord)
- PHILIPS 4784614.
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