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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Dowland: Complete Lute Works; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue. Plus works by Ravel and Bach.

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. 45: Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue

11:20
Ravel: Violin Sonata in G
Janine Jansen (violin)
Itamar Golan (piano)
DECCA 478 2256

11:40
Bach: O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34
Christoph Genz (tenor)
Nathalie Stutzmann (alto)
Panajotis Iconomou (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir
The English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG 121.

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Wed 27 Feb 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Alfred Schnittke

    Concerto Grosso No. 3: Allegro

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132: 3rd mvt.

  • Percy Grainger

    Lisbon (arr. for wind quintet)

    Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10638.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ouverture - Musette - Menuet, from Alcina

    Performers: Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini (conductor)

    • NAÏVE V 5307.

  • 9.07: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • John Dowland

      Semper Dowland, semper dolens

      Performers: Paul O'Dette (lute)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907162.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    The Rock, Op. 7

    Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10589.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

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

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in G minor for oboe and basso continuo, Wq. 135

    Performers: Anna Starr (baroque oboe), MarΓ­a SΓ‘nchez RamΓ­rez (cello), JΓΆrn Boysen (direction and harpsichord)

    • BRILLIANT 94298.

  • Rodrigo

    Tres viejos aires de danza

    Performers: Orquestra Ciudad de Granada, Josep Pons (conductor)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2908534.

  • Franz Liszt

    Feux follets, from 12 Etudes d'execution transcendante, S139

    Performers: Claudio Arrau (piano)

    • PHILIPS 416 458-2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Charles Mackerras

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony No. 5 in B flat, D.485

      Performers: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • VIRGIN 6286052.

  • 10.30: Paul Rhys's Choices

    • Alfred Schnittke

      Concerto Grosso No. 3: 1st movement (Allegro)

      Performers: Ronald Brautigam (harpsichord/piano), Viktor Liberman & Jaap van Zweden (violins), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • DECCA 430 698-2.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in A minor, Op. 132: 3rd mvt: Heiliger Dankgesang eines Genesenen an die Go

    Performers: TakΓ‘cs Quartet

    • DECCA 470 849-2.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • George Gershwin

      Rhapsody in Blue

      Performers: Earl Wild (piano), Boston Pops Orchestra, Arthur Fiedler (conductor)

      • SONY 88697720602.

  • 11.20:

    • Maurice Ravel

      Violin Sonata in G

      Performers: Janine Jansen (violin), Itamar Golan (piano)

      • DECCA 478 2256.

  • 11.40:

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34

      Performers: Christoph Genz (tenor), Nathalie Stutzmann (alto), Panajotis Iconomou (bass), The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 121.

  • George Gershwin

    Rhapsody in Blue

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    O ewiges Feuer, o Ursprung der Liebe, BWV 34

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  • Wed 27 Feb 2013 09:00
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