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Friday - 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: Haydn: The Creation (Part 1).

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
Today 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

Haydn: The Creation (Part I)
Sandrine Piau (soprano)
Mark Padmore (tenor)
Neal Davies (bass)
Chetham's Chamber Choir
Gabrieli Consort
Gabrieli Players
Paul McCreesh (conductor)
ARCHIV 4777361.

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Fri 16 Nov 2012 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Louis‐Claude Daquin

    Le Coucou (Premier Livre de pieces de clavecin)

    Performers: Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

    • ARCHIV 413 591.

  • 9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Oboe Concerto in D minor, Op. 9 No. 2

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

      • HELIOS CDH55034.

  • Richard Wagner

    Rienzi Overture

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

    • EMI 6356572.

  • Richard Strauss

    Stimmungsbilder: Intermezzo

    Performers: Stefan Veselka (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.557713.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • 9.31: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Claude Debussy

      L'Isle Joyeuse

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

      • BIS 1105.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo a la russe

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 470 6432.

  • Jarvis Sheppard

    Verbum caro

    Performers: Tallis Scholars, Peter Phillips (conductor)

    • GIMELL CDGIM 016.

  • Arban

    Carnival of Venice

    Performers: Maurice Andre (trumpet), Orchestre d'Harmonie des Gardiens de la Paix de Paris, Claude Pichaureau (conductor)

    • ERATO 2292451852.

  • 10.03: Artist of the Week - Noriko Ogawa

    • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

      Piano Concerto No. 1 in D, Op. 17

      Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Jean-Jacques Kantorow (conductor)

      • BIS 1040.

  • 10.30: Anne Fine's Choices

    • Fanny Mendelssohn

      Overture in C

      Performers: The Women's Philharmonic, Jo Ann Falletta (conductor)

      • KOCH 371692.

  • Hildegard von Bingen

    O Ecclesia

    Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Gothic Voices

    • HYPERION CDA 66039.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Joseph Haydn

      The Creation (Part I)

      Performers: Miah Persson (soprano), Sandrine Piau (soprano), Peter Harvey (baritone), Mark Padmore (tenor), Neal Davies (bass), Gabrieli Consort, Gabrieli Players, Chetham's Chamber Choir, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 477 7361.

  • Avison

    Concerto Grosso No.7 in G minor

    Performers: The Avison Ensemble

    • DIVINE ART DDA21213.

  • William Byrd

    Venite, exsultemus Domine

    Performers: Cardinall's Musick, Andrew Carwood (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67779.

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  • Fri 16 Nov 2012 09:00
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