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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Tchaikovsky - Complete Ballets; Artist of the Week: John Eliot Gardiner; Sarah's Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5.

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

Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 'Reformation'
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
DG 459 156 2.

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Thu 7 Mar 2013 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Berners

    The Triumph of Neptune: Hornpipe

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Nicholas Braithwaite (conductor)

    • LYRITA SRCD 336.

  • William Walton

    Richard III: Prelude

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, William Walton (conductor)

    • EMI 5650072.

  • 9.11: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Sleeping Beauty: Act III Final and Apotheose

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

      • DECCA 478 4273.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Klavierstucke Op. 118: Intermezzo in A major; Ballade in G minor

    Performers: Hakon Austbo (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 92182.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      What am I?

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - John Eliot Gardiner

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Lobet de Herrn, alle Heiden, BWV 230

      Performers: Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 716.

  • Michael Nyman

    Drowning by Numbers: Bees in Trees

    Performers: Michael Nyman Band

    • VIRGIN CDVE 967.

  • 10.05: Artist of the Week - John Eliot Gardiner

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Danse Macabre

      Performers: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)

      • SONY SBK 47665.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue No.1 in C BWV846

    Performers: Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord)

    • ARCHIV 4790441.

  • Anon.

    Differenzias sobre la Gayta (Collection Flores de m煤sica, 1706-1709)

    Performers: Ensemble Caprice

    • ANALEKTA AN25597.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No. 5, BWV 1050

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

    • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 707.

  • Percy Grainger

    In a Nutshell - The Gum-Suckers March

    Performers: 麻豆约拍 Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN10638(19).

  • 10.30: Prof. Germaine Greer's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Trio Sonata for Flute, Violin and Harpsichord in G major, BWV 1038

      Performers: Musical Alta Ripa

      • MDG 3090931.

  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier, Act III: 'Marie Th茅r猫se!.. Hab' mir's gelobt'

    Performers: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (soprano), Teresa Stich-Randall聽(Soprano), Christa Ludwig聽(Mezzo Soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • EMI 5676092.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Ballade in F Op.38

    Performers: Louis Lortie (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10714.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Symphony No. 5 'Reformation'

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • DG 459 156 2.

  • Eustache du Caurroy

    Salve Regina

    Performers: Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom (conductor)

    • PORTRAIT PCL2102.

  • 11.30am

    • Franti拧ek Benda

      Flute Concerto in E minor

      Performers: Patrick Gallois (flute), C.P.E. Bach Chamber Orchestra, Peter Schreier (conductor)

      • DG 479 1114.

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Battalia Furiosa

    Performers: Ensemble Caprice

    • ANALEKTA AN29957.

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  • Thu 7 Mar 2013 09:00
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