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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Five Italian Oboe Concertos played by Nicholas Daniel; Pianist Noriko Ogawa; Essential Choice: Beethoven: String Quartet, Op 18 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
Tomorrow (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

Beethoven: String Quartet Op.18 No. 4
MosaΓ―ques String Quartet
NAÏVE 8899.

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Thu 15 Nov 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    L'embarquement pour Cythere

    Performers: Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

    • PHILIPS 426 2842.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Three Dances from 'A Life from the Tsar' - Pas de quatre

    Performers: Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor)

    • FUGA LIBERA FUG571.

  • 9.09: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Domenico Cimarosa

      Oboe Concerto in C major

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

      • HELIOS CDH55034.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Swan of Tuonela, Op. 22 No. 2

    Performers: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

    • SONY 88697689752.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Rentaro Taki

      Two Piano Pieces: Menuetto in B minor; Grudge

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

      • BIS 854.

  • Fumio Hayasaka

    Autumn

    Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

    • BIS 854.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sakari Oramo (conductor)

    • ERATO 8573829172.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Tribulationem Et Dolorum

    Performers: Ensemble Vocal Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901320.

  • 10.05: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Claude Debussy

      Fantaisie for piano and orchestra

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui (conductor)

      • BIS 1955.

  • 10.30: Anne Fine's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Exsultate Jubilate, K.165

      Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

      • L'OISEAU LYRE 411 8322.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    WTC Book I Prelude in E, BWV 854

    Performers: Rosalyn Tureck (piano)

    • DG 463 3052.

  • Georges Bizet

    Danse Boheme from Carmen Suite No.2

    Performers: City of Mexico Symphony Orchestra, Enrique Batiz (conductor)

    • ASV DCA 596.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      String Quartet Op. 18 No. 4

      Performers: MosaΓ―ques String Quartet

      • NAÏVE 8899.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    O vos omnes

    Performers: Ensemble Vocal Europeen, Philippe Herreweghe (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901320.

  • William Walton

    Viola Concerto

    Performers: Paul Neubauer (viola), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (director)

    • DECCA 4705082.

  • 11:55 Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Claude Debussy

      General Lavine - Preludes Book II

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

      • BIS CD 1955/56.

Broadcast

  • Thu 15 Nov 2012 09:00
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