Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera; Artist of the Week: Marc-Andre Hamelin; Baroness Floella Benjamin; Walton: Symphony No 1.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Can-Can and other Dances from the Opera (various performers) NAXOS 8.550924
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin.
10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is Baroness Floella Benjamin, television presenter, actress and politician. She is known as presenter of children's television programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward. On stage she has appeared in shows including Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Husband in Law. She has won a Special Lifetime Achievement award from BAFTA, and in 2001 was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting. In 2010 she was introduced to the House of Lords as a Life Peer, nominated by the Liberal Democrats.
11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No. 11: Purcell
Evening Hymn
11.07am
Walton
Symphony No. 1
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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9am: Artist of the Week - Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin
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Percy Grainger
Handel in the Strand
Performers: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano)
- HYPERION CDA66884.
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9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Jacques Offenbach
Can-Can (Orpheus in the Underworld)
Performers: Slovak State Philharmonic Orchestra, Johannes Wildner (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.550924.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat, K.240 (wind sextet)
Performers: Winds of the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
- ORFEO C 152861 A.
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Franz von Supp猫
Overture: Die Frau Meisterin
Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
- EMI CDC 754 056 2.
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Today's Brainteaser
Who's Dancing? Dance of the Blessed Spirits - Gluck's Orfeo
Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
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9.37: Artist of the Week - Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin
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Alkan
Le Festin d'Esope, Op. 39 No. 12
Performers: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano)
- HYPERION CDA66794.
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Jean Sibelius
Lemminkainen's Return (Legends, Op. 22 No. 4)
Performers: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme J盲rvi (conductor)
- BIS CD610BIS.
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9.50: Artist of the Week - Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60
Performers: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano), Leopold String Trio
- HYPERION CDA 67471/2.
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10.30: Baroness Floella Benjamin's Choices
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Jeremiah Clarke
Trumpet Voluntary, 'The Prince of Denmark's March'
Performers: Wynton Marsalis (trumpet), English Chamber Orchestra
- SONY CLASSICAL SK66244.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Pavane
Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra Choir and Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 421 440 2.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Peter and the Wolf (opening)
Performers: Basil Rathbone (narrator), The All-American Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)
- AVID AMSC601.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Airs de ballet d'Ascanio: Adagio et Variation
Performers: Susan Milan (flute), City of London Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN8840.
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11am: The Story of Music
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Henry Purcell
Evening Hymn
Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Anthony Rooley (lute), Christopher Hogwood (organ)
- L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 417 123 2.
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11.10: The Building a Library Recommendation on CD Review
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William Walton
Symphony No. 1 in B flat minor
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
- RCA DG 87830.
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Henry Purcell
Fantasia no 7 in C minor
Performers: Fretwork
- VIRGIN CLASSICS545 062 2.
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