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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: clarinettist Michael Collins; CD Review Building a Library Recommendation: Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, clarinettist Michael Collins.

10.30am
This Tuesday (23rd April) marks Shakespeare's birthday, and Sarah Walker's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Felicity Kendal. As a child, Felicity's family moved to India, where her parents ran a touring company that performed Shakespeare plays. She became a full time member of the company at the age of twelve, playing the role of Puck in a production of A Midsummer's Night Dream. Felicity is best known to the nation as playing Barbara Good in the popular sitcom The Good Life, alongside Richard Briers. Other television roles include Rosemary (in Rosemary & Thyme), and she also starred in the 2010 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Felicity's stage career blossomed during the 1980s and 1990s when she formed a close professional association with Sir Tom Stoppard, starring in the first productions of many of his plays. In 2006 she starred in the West End revival of Amy's View by David Hare, and more recently she appeared in The Last Cigarette (2009) and in Mrs Warren's Profession (2010). In May this year she will star in the first London revival of Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn.

11am:
Debussy: Pelleas et Melisande
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 22 Apr 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • 9am: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • George Gershwin

      3 Preludes: No. 1

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10615.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto, RV 410

    Performers: Sol Gabetta (cello), Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca

    • RCA 88697131692.

  • 9.15: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Johannes Brahms

      Hungarian Dances: No. 7 in A; No. 1 in G minor

      Performers: Maxim Vengerov (violin), Vag Papian (piano), Virtuosi

      • EMI 5571642.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Fantasia on Serbian Themes

    Performers: Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra, Kees Bakels (conductor)

    • BIS 1667/68.

  • Percy Grainger

    Klavierstucke in B flat

    Performers: Penelope Thwaites (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10638(19).

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Dancing?

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

  • 9.34: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Donato Lovreglio

      Fantasy on Themes from Verdi's "La Traviata" for clarinet & piano, Op. 45

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Piers Lane (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10615.

  • LASSUS

    Missa "Congratulamini mihi": Kyrie a 6; Gloria a 6

    Performers: The Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 453 4272.

  • 10.02: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat, Op. 74

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet/conductor), City of London Sinfonia

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10702.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    L'Entretien des Muses

    Performers: Skip Sempe (harpsichord)

    • PARADIZO PA0005.

  • 10.30: Felicity Kendal's Choice

    • Luigi Boccherini

      Cello Concerto in B flat: Allegro moderato – Cadenza

      Performers: Jacqueline du Pre (cello), English Chamber Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • EMI 5668962.

  • Granados

    12 Danzas Espagnolas - Minuet

    Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • MUSICA VIVA MVCD1074.

  • 11am

    • Claude Debussy

      Pelleas et Melisande: Act V

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday’s CD Review

  • Richard Wagner

    Huldigungsmarsch (orch. Raff)

    Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 24144.

  • 11.37am

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Violin Concerto in D minor

      Performers: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA67795.

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  • Mon 22 Apr 2013 09:00
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