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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel; Pianist Noriko Ogawa; Essential Choice: Mahler: Kindertotenlieder.

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ; 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

Mahler: Kindertotenlieder
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 4389402.

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Wed 14 Nov 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Michel‐Richard de Lalande

    Mariage: Air pour les Indiens

    Performers: Ensemble Baroque de Loges, Christophe Coin (conductor)

    • LABORIE CLASSIQUE LC1.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Alessandro Marcello

      Oboe Concerto in D minor

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

      • HELIOS CDH55034.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Etudes Op. 25: No. 5 in E minor; No. 11 in A minor 'Winter Wind'

    Performers: Nikita Magaloff (piano)

    • PHILIPS 420 705-2.

  • Ireland

    Sarnia: An Island Sequence for Orchestra - Song of the Springtides (arr. Martin Yates)

    Performers: Royal National Scottish Orchestra, Martin Yates (conductor)

    • DUTTON EPOCH CDLX 7281.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Albert KetΓ¨lbey

      From a Japanese Screen

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

      • BIS 1045.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No. 4 in E flat, K.495

    Performers: Christian Lindberg (trombone), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor)

    • BIS-CD-1008.

  • Leonard Bernstein

    Three Dance Episodes from On The Town - The Great Lover

    Performers: Israel Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • DG 2532052.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Edvard Grieg

      Piano Concerto in A minor, Op. 16

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano), Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Ole Kristian Ruud (conductor)

      • BIS 1191.

  • 10.30: Anne Fine's Choices

    • CristΓ³bal de Morales

      Parce mihi Domine

      Performers: Jan Garbarek (soprano saxophone), Hilliard Ensemble

      • ECM 4763855.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No. 4: 4th movement, Sehr behaglich

    Performers: Lucia Popp (soprano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)

    • EMI 5742962.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Gustav Mahler

      Kindertotenlieder

      Performers: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

      • DG 438 9402.

  • Leopold KoΕΎeluh

    Symphony in A 'a la francaise'

    Performers: Concerto Koln

    • TELDEC 2564698899.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La Valse

    Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 241/44.

  • Claude Debussy

    Pours les huit doigts

    Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

    • BIS CD 1955/56.

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  • Wed 14 Nov 2012 09:00
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