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Friday - Sarah Walker

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

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: Nocturnes
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
PHILIPS 438742.

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Fri 26 Apr 2013 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Hasse

    Sinfonia, Op. 3 No. 3: Allegro assai

    Performers: Musica Antiqua KΓΆln, Reinhard Goebel (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 453 4352.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Les Indes Galente: Overture

    Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

    • ALIA VOX AVSA9882.

  • 9.18: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Vittorio Monti

      Csardas

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

      • EMI 5571642.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hamlet, S 104

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 438 754Β .

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Darius Milhaud

      Scaramouche, Op. 165d

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

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10615.

  • 9.44am

    • Schutz

      Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr, SWV 387

      Performers: Ghent Collegium Vocale, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI 901534.

  • ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly

    Dances of Marosszek

    Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 4443222.

  • 10.09: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Britten / Matthews

      Movements for a Clarinet Concerto

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Northern Sinfonia, Thomas Zehetmair (conductor)

      • NMC 140.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Well Tempered Clavier Book II - Prelude and Fugue in F sharp major BWV882

    Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDS 44294.

  • 10.30: Felicity Kendal's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Suite for Orchestra No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068: 'Air on a G string'

      Performers: Julian Lloyd Webber (cello), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, James Judd (conductor)

      • SONY BMG 9834883.

  • ΆΩ’I²Τ»ε²β

    Lied, Op. 19

    Performers: Lawrence Power (viola), ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales, Thierry Fischer (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 67690.

  • Baermann

    Adagio

    Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10637.

  • Gustav Holst

    Suite de Ballets - Valse

    Performers: Northern Sinfonia, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10725X.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Claude Debussy

      Nocturnes

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • DECCA ELOQUENCE 480 0127.

  • Charles Koechlin

    Bassoon Sonata Op.71

    Performers: Karen Geoghegan (bassoon), Philip Fisher (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10521.

  • 11.35am

    • Louis Vierne

      Messe solenelle, Op. 16

      Performers: Choir of Westminster Cathedral, Joseph Cullen and Andrew Reid (organs), James O’Donnell (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA66898.

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