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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets; Artist of the Week: John Eliot Gardiner; Essential Choice: Dvorak: String Quartet No 12.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets, Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor) DECCA 478 4273

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, John Eliot Gardiner, one of the great pioneers of early music performance.

10.30am
Sarah Walker guest's this week Professor Germaine Greer, theorist, academic and journalist, who holds an emeritus professorship in English Literature and Comparative Studies at the University of Warwick. Prof. Greer is best known for her work in twentieth century feminism: she has defined her goal as 'women's liberation' as distinct from 'equality with men', asserting that women's liberation means embracing gender differences in a positive fashion. Her ideas about gender and sexuality have provoked controversy since the release of her 1970 book, The Female Eunuch. Some of her other books include Sex and Destiny: The Politics of Human Fertility, The Change: Women, Aging and the Menopause, and Shakespeare's Wife.

11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

Dvorak: String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'
Pavel Haas Quartet
SUPRAPHON SU40382.

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Tue 5 Mar 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Four Romantic Pieces for violin and piano, Op. 75: Allegro maestoso

    Performers: James Ehnes (violin), Eduard Laurel (piano)

    • ANALEKTA FL23191.

  • 9.04: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Sleeping Beauty: Act III March; Pas de quatre

      Performers: Orchestra of the Mariinsky Theatre, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 4273.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No.1 in C - Allegro

    Performers: Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.553161.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin: Act I Prelude

    Performers: The Philadelphia Orrchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

    • DG 479 1120.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - John Eliot Gardiner

    • Lobo

      Versa Est in Luctum

      Performers: Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG710.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Dolly Suite, Op. 56

    Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9416.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    String Symphony No.2 in D minor

    Performers: Northern Chamber Orchestra, Nicholas Ward (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.553161.

  • 10.10: Artist of the Week - John Eliot Gardiner

    • George Frideric Handel

      Gloria

      Performers: Gillian Keith (soprano), English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 462 5972.

  • 10.30: Prof. Germaine Greer's Choices

    • Victoria

      Tenebrae Responsaries: Tenebrae factae sunt

      Performers: The Tallis Scholars

      • GIMELL CDGIM 022.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Das Knaben Wunderhorn: Der Tambourg'sell

    Performers: Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 458 946 2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Rhapsodie Espagnol - Feria

    Performers: Katia and Marielle Labeque (pianos)

    • KML 1111.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

      String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'

      Performers: Pavel Haas Quartet

      • SUPRAPHON SU40382.

  • Jean‐Baptiste Lully

    Alcidiane: Petite Chaconne; Chaconne Des Maures

    Performers: Aradia Ensemble, Kevin Mallon (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.554003.

  • 11.28am

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      Variations for piano and orchestra

      Performers: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • DECCA 473 767 2.

  • Philippe Rogier

    Salva nos, Domine

    Performers: The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 710.

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  • Tue 5 Mar 2013 09:00
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