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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artists of the Week: the Melos Ensemble; Novelist and journalist Andrew Martin; Sarah's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor, Op 27.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week - Albinoni: 12 Concertos Op.9 with the Academy of Ancient Music - DECCA 4591292.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser from one of our listeners, and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Melos Ensemble.

10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the novelist and journalist Andrew Martin, whose writing career was launched when he won The Spectator Young Writer of the Year Award in 1988. Since then he has written for The Guardian, the Daily and Sunday Telegraph, the Independent and Granta, among other publications. His columns have appeared in ES Magazine, the Independent on Sunday and the New Statesman.

Andrew is also a prolific novelist. The Necropolis Railway was the first in the series of historical thrillers featuring the railwayman turned railway policeman, Jim Stringer. It was followed by The Blackpool Highflyer, The Lost Luggage Porter, Murder at Deviation Junction, Death on A Branch Line, and The Last Train to Scarborough, all of which are published by Faber. Murder at Deviation Junction and Death on a Branch Line were both shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Historical Crime Awards in 2007 and 2008, and Andrew was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Dagger In The Library Award 2008 for the entire series. The new Jim Stringer novel, The Somme Stations, is out in March.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2 in E minor Op.27
Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra
Antonio Pappano (conductor)
EMI 5494622.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten, BWV 642

    Performers: Simon Preston (organ)

    • DG 469 4202.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Concerto a 5 in F, Op. 9 No. 10 for violin, strings and continuo

      Performers: Andrew Manze (violin), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

      • DECCA 4581292.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento in F, K.213

    Performers: London Wind Soloists

    • DECCA 455 7942.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker: Departure of the guests

    Performers: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 4273.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Where am I?

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

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Pulcinella Suite - Scherzino: Allegro; Allegro; Andantino; Allegro

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 443 7742.

  • 9.39: Artists of the Week - The Melos Ensemble

    • Francaix

      Divertissement for bassoon and string quintet

      Performers: The Melos Ensemble

      • EMI 9185142.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Domine, quis habitabit

    Performers: Chapelle du Roi, Alistair Dixon (conductor)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93612.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances No.10 in F, No.4 in F minor and No.18 in D

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 4106152.

  • 10.08: Artists of the Week - The Melos Ensemble

    • Maurice Ravel - Introduction and Allegro

      Performers: The Melos Ensemble

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker: Dance of the Reed-pipes

    Performers: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 4273.

  • Arnold Bax

    Mediterranean

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

    • LYRITA 231.

  • 10.30: Andrew Martin's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Partita No. 2 in D minor for violin, BWV 1004 – Chaconne

      Performers: Nathan Milstein (violin)

      • ARCHIV 479 0441.

  • Bryars

    Cello Concerto 'Farewell to Philosophy' - Movement VI

    Performers: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), English Chamber Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)

    • POINT 454 126-2.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Lob sei dem Allmachtigen Gott BWV602

    Performers: Simon Preston (organ)

    • DG 4694202.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27

      Performers: Santa Cecilia Academy Rome Orchestra, Antonio Pappano (conductor)

      • EMI 5494622.

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