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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel; Pianist Noriko Ogawa; Sarah's Essential Choice: Sibelius: Symphony No 4.

9am
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.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Sibelius: Symphony No.4 in A minor Op.63
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA 5689202.

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Music Played

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Tempest Suite No.1, Op. 109 No. 2: Scene

    Performers: Lahti Symphony Orchestra, Okko Kamu (conductor)

    • BIS 1945.

  • William Walton

    Henry V Suite

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, William Walton (conductor)

    • EMI 5650072.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu bleibt meine Freude, from Cantata BWV 147 (arr. Hess)

    Performers: Tatiana Nikolayeva (piano)

    • REGIS RRC1285.

  • 9.23: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Vincenzo Bellini

      Oboe Concerto in E flat major

      Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe/conductor), Peterborough String Orchestra

      • HELIOS CDH55034.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Claude Debussy

      Pour le Piano

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

      • BIS 1405.

  • Dall'Abaco

    Concerto a quattro da chiesa, Op. 2 No. 4

    Performers: Concerto Koln

    • TELDEC 2564698899.

  • Joseph Haydn

    The Seasons (excerpt from Autumn)

    Performers: Jeremy Ovenden (tenor), Andrew Foster-Williams (bass), London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Sir Colin Davis (conductor)

    • LSO LIVE 0708.

  • 10.02: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Piano Concerto in C sharp minor Op. 30

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano), Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Kees Bakels (conductor)

      • BIS 1387.

  • Alexander Borodin

    String Sextet in D minor

    Performers: The Lindsays

    • ASV 1143.

  • 10.30: Anne Fine's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      B Minor Mass: Laudamus Te; Gratias Agimus Tibi; Domine Deus

      Performers: Rotraud Hansmann (soprano), Emiko Iiyama (soprano), Helen Watts (contralto), Kurt Equiluz (tenor), Max van Egmond (baritone), Vienna Concentus Musicus, Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)

      • TELDEC 4334682.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony No 5, 1st movement: Allegro con brio

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

    • EMI 5176592.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Jean Sibelius

      Symphony No. 4 in A minor, Op. 63

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

      • DECCA 568 9202.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Trumpet Concerto in E

    Performers: Hakan Hardenberger (trumpet), Academy of St. Martin in the Fields, Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 4784614.

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  • Tue 13 Nov 2012 09:00
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