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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Dowland: Complete Lute Works (Paul O'Dette); The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Shostakovich: Symphony No 7.

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. 47: Shostakovich: Symphony no.7 in C, op.60 - 1st mvt

11:30
Britten: Tit for Tat
John Shirley-Quirk (baritone)
Benjamin Britten (piano)
DECCA 4756056.

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Thu 28 Feb 2013 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Locke

    Pavan-Almand a 6, from Musick for His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts

    Performers: His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts

    • HELIOS CDH55406.

  • Josef Strauss

    Fesche Geister: Waltz, Op. 75

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

    • LONDON 455 254-2.

  • 9.10: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • John Dowland

      the Lady Laitons Almone; A Dream (Lady Leighton's Paven); Galliard

      Performers: Paul O'Dette (8-course lute after Paduan models by Malcolm Prior, London; octave stringing)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907160.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9420.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • Brade

    Cornish Dance; Irish Dance (Anon.); Brade; Scottish Dance

    Performers: His Mayestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Timothy Roberts (harpsichord)

    • HELIOS CDH55406.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture 'Zur Namensfeier', Op. 115

    Performers: Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 3497.

  • Gerald Finzi

    5 Bagatelles for clarinet and piano, Op. 23

    Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10637.

  • Leos JanÑček

    The Makropoulos Case - extract from Act ! ("Emilie!")

    Performers: Elisabeth Soderstrom (soprano - Emilia Marty), Peter Dvorsky (tenor - Albert Gregor), Vienna Philharmonic, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 372-2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Charles Mackerras

    • Leos JanÑček

      Sinfonietta

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 3186.

  • 10.30: Paul Rhys's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Goldberg Variations, BWV 988: Aria

      Performers: Glenn Gould (piano)

      • CBS DIDC-35.

  • Richard Wagner

    Wotan's Farewell & Magic Fire Music (Die WalkΓΌre)

    Performers: Bryn Terfel (bass-baritone), Berlin Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 417 348-2.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Symphony No. 7 in C, Op. 60: 1st mvt

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

      • DG 477 5193.

  • 11.35:

    • Benjamin Britten

      Tit for Tat

      Performers: John Shirley-Quirk (baritone), Benjamin Britten (piano)

      • DECCA ELOQUENCE 0289 476 849-2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in G minor, RV 328

    Performers: Dmitry Sinkovsky (violin), Il Pomo d'Oro

    • NAÏVE OP30538.

Broadcast

  • Thu 28 Feb 2013 09:00
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