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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Dowland: Complete Lute Works played by Paul O'Dette; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Dowland: Complete Lute Works played by Paul O'Dette - HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2907160.64

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, conductor Charles Mackerras.

10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the Welsh television, film and theatre actor, Paul Rhys. Paul studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1987. Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen. His first US exposure came via American film director Robert Altman who cast Paul, still a student at the time, as Theo van Gogh in 'Vincent and Theo' (opposite Tim Roth as Vincent).

In 2000 he performed in the title role of Hamlet at the Young Vic and later in Tokyo and Osaka, receiving several awards for this performance. He also played Angelo in Measure for Measure for which he won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Houseman in The Invention of Love and Edgar in King Lear, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Real-life characters played by Rhys have included Peter Mandelson, Paul McCartney, Frederic Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven - in the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ series, The Genius of Beethoven (2005), presented by Charles Hazlewood. Appearances in recent television series include Luther, Spooks and Being Human.

11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No.43: Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring

11:40
Prokofiev 10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, op.75 - no.4, Juliet's Girlhood; no.6, Montagues and Capulets; no.10, Romeo and Juliet at Parting
Louis Lortie (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN 8733.

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Tue 26 Feb 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Tambourins, from Dardanus

    Performers: Pierre HantaΓ―, Skip SempΓ© (harpsichords)

    • MIRARE MIR 164.

  • Sullivan

    Overture to The Mikado

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • EMI 0 98189 2.

  • 9.11: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • John Dowland

      Lachrimae; Galliard to Lachrimae

      Performers: Paul O'Dette (lute)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907163.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Concertino for clarinet and strings

    Performers: Emma Johnson (clarinet), English Chamber Orchestra, Charles Groves (conductor)

    • ASV CD DCA 747.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave in B flat minor, Op. 31

    Performers: Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

    • SONY S70475C 88697720602.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata in E major, BWV 1035

    Performers: Andrea Oliva (flute), Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67897.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    'Un di, felice, eterea', from La traviata, act 1

    Performers: Ileana Cotrubas (soprano - Violetta), Placido Domingo (tenor - Alfredo), Bavarian State Opera Chorus, Bavarian State Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

    • DG 477 9170.

  • 9.55: Artist of the Week - Charles Mackerras

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto No.17 in G, K.453

      Performers: John O'Conor (piano), Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • TELARC 2CD-80733.

  • 10.30: Paul Rhys's Choices

    • Edward Elgar

      Cello Concerto: 1st movement (Adagio – Moderato)

      Performers: Jacqueline Du Pre (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

      • EMI CDC 747329-2.

  • Franz Schubert

    Schwanengesang: Liebesbotschaft; FrΓΌhlingssehnsucht; StΓ€ndchen; Die Taubenpost

    Performers: Ian Bostridge (tenor), Antonio Pappano (piano)

    • EMI 242639-2.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Igor Stravinsky

      The Rite of Spring

      Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 3170.

  • 11.38:

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      10 Pieces from Romeo and Juliet, Op. 75: No. 4, Juliet's Girlhood; No. 6, Montagues and Ca

      Performers: Louis Lortie (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 8733.

  • Edward Elgar

    Cello Concerto: Adagio - Moderato

  • Franz Schubert

    Schwanengesang (selection)

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring

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  • Tue 26 Feb 2013 09:00
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