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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artists of the Week: the Melos Ensemble; Novelist and journalist Andrew Martin; Sarah's Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 2 in C, Op 61.

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
Schumann: Symphony No.2 in C Op.61
Philharmonia
Christian Thielemann (conductor)
DG 4534822.

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Music Played

  • Robert Schumann

    Davidsbundlertanze Book I - Sehr rasch und in sich hinein

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • VIRGIN 99470.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Overture in D

    Performers: Musica Viva, Alexander Rudin (conductor)

    • FUGA LIBERA FUG571.

  • 9.09: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Concerto a 5 in D, Op. 9 No. 12 for oboes, strings and continuo

      Performers: Frank De Bruine and Alfredo Bernardini (oboes), Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

      • DECCA 4581292.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Symphony No. 1 'Classical'

    Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY 47062.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Motet 'Regina Coeli'

    Performers: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Timothy Brown (conductor)

    • EMI 508280.

  • Novak

    In the Tatra Mountains, Op. 26

    Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Libor Pesek (conductor)

    • VIRGIN 45251.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Nocturne in E flat Op.9 No.2

    Performers: Livia Rev

    • HYPERION CDA 22013.

  • 10.04: Artists of the Week - The Melos Ensemble

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Octet in E flat, Op. 103

      Performers: The Melos Ensemble

      • EMI 9185142.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Pieces de clavecin en concerts 'Air pour les Esclaves Africains'

    Performers: Skip Sempe and Olivier Fortin (harpsichords)

    • PARADIZE PA0005.

  • 10.30: Andrew Martin's Choices

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

      Performers: English String Orchestra, William Boughton (conductor)

      • NIMBUS 7013.

  • Frederick Delius

    Intermezzo from Fennimore and Gerda

    Performers: Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • EMI 0842102.

  • Robert Schumann

    Davidsbundlertanze Book I - Ungeduldig

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • VIRGIN 99470.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Robert Schumann

      Symphony No. 2 in C, Op. 61

      Performers: Philharmonia, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

      • DG 453 4822.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    In dir ist Freude BWV615

    Performers: Simon Preston (organ)

    • DG 4694202.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in E flat, K.160

    Performers: Amadeus Quartet

    • DG 477 8680.

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