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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: clarinettist Michael Collins; Sarah's Essential Choice: Debussy: Jeux.

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: Sarah's Essential Choice

Debussy: Jeux
Suisse Romande Orchestra
Ernest Ansermet (conductor)
DECCA 470255.

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Music Played

  • Alkan

    Four Impromptus, Op. 34 No. 1: Vaghezza

    Performers: Laurent Martin (piano)

    • MARCO POLO 8.223657.

  • Percy Grainger

    English Dance (version for orchestra)

    Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9493.

  • 9.12: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

      Humoresque

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

      • EMI 5571642.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Passacaglia & Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

    Performers: Peter Hurford (organ)

    • DECCA 443 4852.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Serenade in G K.525 - Rondo

    Performers: Cambridge Buskers

    • "DG 480 0136.

  • 9.36: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Knussen

      …upon one note (Fantasia after Purcell)

      Performers: Paul Silverthorne (viola), Michael Collins (clarinet), Clio Gould (violin), John Constable (piano), Christopher Van Kampen (cello)

      • DG 449 5722.

  • Johann Ludwig Bach

    Overture Suite for strings, 2 oboes and continuo: Ouverture

    Performers: Musica Antiqua KΓΆln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 479 0377.

  • William Lloyd Webber

    In the Half-Light - A Soliloquy

    Performers: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), John Lill (piano)

    • ASV DCA 584.

  • 9.54am

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Oboe Concerto in F, Op. 9 No. 3

      Performers: Anthony Robson and Catherine Latham (oboes), Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHACONNE CHAN 0792(3).

  • 10.05: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Spohr

      Clarinet Concerto No. 2 in E flat, Op. 57

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Robin O'Neill (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA67509.

  • John Dowland

    Fantasia in 3 parts

    Performers: Fretwork

    • VIRGIN VC 7907952.

  • 10.30: Felicity Kendal's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Violin Sonata in C, K.296

      Performers: Itzhak Perlman (violin), Daniel Barenboim (piano)

      • DG 415 1022.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi: 'O mio babbino caro'

    Performers: Lauretta: Maria Callas (soprano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Tullio Serafin (conductor)

    • EMI 5570622.

  • William Lloyd Webber

    Six Pieces for Piano - Scherzo in G minor

    Performers: John Lill (piano)

    • ASV DCA 584.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Claude Debussy

      Jeux

      Performers: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

      • DECCA 470 255.

  • 11.20am

    • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

      Piano Concerto in G minor, Op. 33

      Performers: Francesco Piemontese (piano), ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra, Jiri Belohlavek (conductor)

      • ±·΄‘Ï³Υ·‘.

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  • Thu 25 Apr 2013 09:00
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