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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Carmen-Fantasie, Anne-Sophie Mutter; Artist of the Week: John Ogdon; Sarah's Essential Choice: Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No 1.

with Sarah Walker, and her guest, plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carmen-Fantasie, Anne-Sophie Mutter, DG 437 5442

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, performances by our Artist of the Week, John Ogdon, and a great Wagner aria as part of Wagner 200.

10.30am
This is the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, and Sarah Walker's guest is plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood. Pippa is well known through her work on television and radio, and as a journalist. She is a regular presenter on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ's Gardeners' World and a panel member of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. She also contributes regularly to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Gardeners' World magazine, Amateur Gardening, and the Mirror, and writes a regular blog for the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Gardeners' World website. Pippa is the author of several gardening books, including The New Gardener (which has sold over a million copies), 1001 Ways to be a Better Gardener, and Flower Gardener, which won a Garden Writers' Guild award in 1998. Her most recent book, The Gardener's Calendar, was published last year.

11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

Elgar: Wand of Youth Suite No. 1
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)

Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 2
Evgeny Kissin (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor).

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Thu 23 May 2013 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Heitor Villa‐Lobos

    Children's Carnival: I. The Little Pierrot's Pony

    Performers: Nelson Freire (piano)

    • DECCA 478 3533.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Henryk Wieniawski

      Legende, Op. 17

      Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine (conductor)

      • DG 437 544-2.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Fantasie-Impromptu in C sharp minor, Op. 66

    Performers: Gabriela Montero (piano)

    • EMI 558039.

  • Neruda

    Trumpet Concerto in E flat major

    Performers: Alison Balsom (trumpet), Die Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremmen

    • EMI 2162130.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Where am I?

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - John Ogdon

    • Ferruccio Busoni

      Sonatina No. 6 (Chamber fantasy on Bizet's Carmen)

      Performers: John Ogdon (piano)

      • EMI 7046372.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus: Du und Du, Op. 367

    Performers: Vienna Johann Strauss Orchestra, Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

    • EMI CDC 7490962.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird - Princesses' Game with the Golden Apples

    Performers: Los Angeles Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)

    • DG 479 1550.

  • 9.56: Artist of the Week - John Ogdon

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini

      Performer: Alexander Gavrylyuk. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic.

      Performers: John Ogdon (piano), Philharmonic Orchestra, John Pritchard (conductor)

      • EMI 7046372.

  • 10.19: Wagner 200

    • Richard Wagner

      Lohengrin: "In Fernem Land unnahbar euren Schritten"

      Performers: Jonas Kaufmann (tenor), Chor der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Orchestra der Deutschen Oper Berlin, Donald Runnicles (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 5189.

  • 10.30: Pippa Greenwood's Choices

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Waltz No. 2

      Performers: Philadelphia Orchestra, Mariss Jansons (conductor)

      • EMI 5556012.

  • Erik Satie

    Gymnopedies for piano No. 1 – Lent et douloureux (orch. Debussy)

    Performers: Orchestre du Capitole de Toulouse, Michel Plasson (conductor)

    • EMI CDC7494712.

  • Domenico Natale Sarro

    Concerto in A minor

    Performers: Il Giardino Armonico

    • WARNER 2564632642.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Edward Elgar

      Wand of Youth Suite No. 1

      Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

      • CAPRICCIO C10501.

  • Victoria

    Responsories for Holy Saturday - Aestimatus sum

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • VIRGIN VC914402.

  • 11.26am

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Piano Concerto No. 2

      Performers: Evgeny Kissin (piano), Philharmonia Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

      • EMI 2645362Β .

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  • Thu 23 May 2013 09:00
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