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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Rare Piano Encores, performed by Leslie Howard; Great British Works: Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Rare Piano Encores, performed by Leslie Howard.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Sir Colin Davis

10.30am
This week Sarah's guest is Maureen Lipman, the celebrated actress of stage and screen, who is also well known for her humorous books and newspaper and magazine columns.

Her many stage triumphs have ranged from singing legend, Florence Foster Jenkins, and the celebrated actress/monologist Joyce Grenfell (Re-Joyce) to Aunt Ella in the National Theatre's production of Oklahoma! and Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music. Maureen was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company at the Old Vic. On screen, Maureen starred in the situation comedy Agony and has appeared in well-loved TV series such as Coronation Street, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, Jonathan Creek, Doctor Who, The Sweeney and Smiley's People. She plays Irene Spencer in Ladies of Letters. On film her roles have included Tricia in Educating Rita, and the mother of The Pianist in Roman Polanski's award-winning film of the same name. Her columns have appeared in The Guardian and Good Housekeeping.

11am
20 Great British Works

Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)

11.15am
Verdi: Rigoletto (excerpt)
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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  • Executive Producer Chris Marshall lists the works chosen and explains the process

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Promenades for Winds: No. 3 Presto

    Performers: Athena Ensemble

    • CHANDOS 241-33.

  • 9.03am

    • MacCunn

      The Land of the Mountain and the Flood

      Performers: Scottish National Orchestra, Alexander Gibson (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN8379.

  • 9.13: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Max Reger

      Schlichte Weisen, Op. 76: Maria's Wiegenlied

      Performers: Leslie Howard (piano)

      • HYPERION HELIOS CDH55109.

  • 9.16am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Trumpet Concerto in E flat, Hob.VIIe:1

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

      • PHILIPS 478 4614.

  • 9.30am

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

      Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

      • DECCA 436 078-2.

  • 9.36am

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 in G, BWV 1048

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

      • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 707.

  • 9.47: Artist of the Week - Colin Davis

    • Hector Berlioz

      Beatrice et Benedict: Overture

      Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis (conductor)

      • PROFIL PH05040.

  • 9.57am

    • Jean Sibelius

      Symphony No. 5 in E flat, Op. 82

      Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)

      • PENTATONE PTC 5816 177.

  • 10.30: Maureen Lipman's Choice

    • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

      Dance Macabre

      Performers: Gerard Jarvis (violin), Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri (conductor)

      • EMI 723347-2.

  • 10.42: Maureen Lipman's Choice

    • Giacomo Puccini

      "Mi chiamano Mimi" (La Boheme)

      Performers: Maria Callas (soprano), Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Orchestra of La Scala, Milan, Antonino Votto (conductor)

      • EMI CDS 556295-2.

  • 10.48am

    • Percy Grainger

      English Dance No.1

      Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN10638(19).

  • 11am: 20 Works celebrating British Music

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

      Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN9775.

  • 11.17am

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      Rigoletto

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

  • 11.37am

    • Grace Williams

      Fantasia on Welsh Nursery Tunes

      Performers: Royal Ballet Sinfonia, Andrew Penny (conductor)

      • MARCO POLO 8.225048.

  • 11.49am

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5

      Performers: Andrei Gavrilov (piano)

      • EMI CDR 569869-2.

  • 11.53am

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Concerto for two oboes & orchestra in C major, Op.7 No.5

      Performers: Heinz Holliger & Maurice Bourgue (oboes), I Musici

      • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94054.

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