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Friday - 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: Adams: The Chairman Dances.

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 麻豆约拍 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. 49: Adams: The Chairman Dances - Foxtrot for Orchestra

11:10
Barber: String Quartet in B minor, op.11
Emerson Quartet
DG 435864 tks 6-8

11:30
Schumann: Konzertst眉ck in F for 4 horns and orchestra, Op.86
Roger Montgomery, Gavin Edwards, Susan Dent, Robert Maskell (horns)
Orchestra R茅volutionnaire et romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
ARCHIV 4575912.

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麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Musica ricercata No. 3 (Allegro con spirito)

    Performers: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

    • SONY SK 62308.

  • Malcolm Arnold

    A Sussex Overture

    Performers: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic Orchestra, Rumon Gamba (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10293.

  • 9.11: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • John Dowland

      Farwell

      Performers: Paul O'Dette (lute)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907160.

  • Richard Strauss

    Festmusik der Stadt Wien

    Performers: Locke Consort, James Stobart (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8419.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • Eric Coates

    The Three Bears: Phantasy

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

    • EMI 0 98194 2.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in F, Op. 6 No. 9

    Performers: The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907228.29.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    The Old Castle, from Pictures at an Exhibition

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 5 00273 2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Charles Mackerras

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No. 1 in C, Op. 21

      Performers: Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDS44301/5.

  • 10.30: Paul Rhys's Choices

    • Maurice Ravel

      Piano Trio: 1st movement (Mod茅r茅)

      Performers: Florestan Trio

      • HYPERION CDA671114.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Mephisto Waltz, from Lermontov (Waltz Suite, Op. 110)

    Performers: Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10483.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Barcarolle in F, op.108

    Performers: Cristina Ortiz (piano), members of the Fine Arts Quartet

    • NAXOS 8.572904.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Adams

      The Chairman Dances: Foxtrot for Orchestra

      Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

      • EMI 5 03403 2.

  • 11.10:

    • Samuel Barber

      String Quartet in B minor, Op. 11

      Performers: Emerson Quartet

      • DG 435 864-2.

  • 11.30:

    • Robert Schumann

      Konzertst眉ck in F for 4 horns and orchestra, Op. 86

      Performers: Roger Montgomery, Gavin Edwards, Susan Dent, Robert Maskell (horns), Orchestra R茅volutionnaire et romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 457 591-2.

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  • Fri 1 Mar 2013 09:00
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