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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Essential CD of the Week: Rare Piano Encores, performed by Leslie Howard; 20 Great British Works: Come ye sons of art away (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary).

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

Purcell: Come ye sons of art away (Ode for the birthday of Queen Mary (1694)
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Thu 20 Jun 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Allegro (Sonate Corellisante No. 1 in F major, TWV 42: F1: 5th movement)

    Performers: Rebel, Jörg-Michael Schwarz (director)

    • DORIAN DSL 90703.
  • 9.02am

    • Harty

      A Comedy Overture

      Performers: Ulster Orchestra, Bryden Thomson (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN10194(3).
  • 9.16am

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Variations concertantes, Op. 17

      Performers: Paul Watkins (cello), Huw Watkins (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10701.
  • 9.26: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Edvard Grieg

      Ich liebe dich, Op. 41 No. 3

      Performers: Leslie Howard (piano)

      • HYPERION HELIOS CDH55109.
  • 9.31am

    • Gustav Holst

      Fugal Concerto for flute, oboe & strings, Op. 40 No. 2

      Performers: William Bennett (flute), Peter Graeme (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, Imogen Holst (conductor)

      • LYRITA SRCD.223.
  • 9.41: Artist of the Week - Colin Davis

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      Phoenix (The Red Poppy Suite, Op. 70)

      Performers: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic, Edward Downes (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10679(5).
  • 9.48am

    • Araujo

      Los coflades de la estleya

      Performers: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA67380.
  • 9.55am

    • Frédéric Chopin

      Etude in A flat, Op.25 No.1 'Aeolian Harp'

      Performers: Agustin Anievas (piano)

      • EMI 574290-2.
  • 9.59: Artist of the Week - Colin Davis

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony No. 4 in C minor 'Tragic'

      Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 68545-2.
  • 10.30: Maureen Lipman's Choice

    • Frédéric Chopin

      Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op. posth.

      Performers: Janusz Olejniczak (piano)

      • SONY CLASSICAL SK 87739.
  • 10.45: Maureen Lipman's Choice

    • Astor Piazzolla

      Michelangelo '70

      Performers: Piazzolla and the New Tango Quintet

      • NONESUCH 7559 79469-2.
  • 10.51am

    • Antonín Dvořák

      Carnival Overture, Op.92

      Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Constantin Silvestri (conductor)

      • EMI 723347-2.
  • 11am: 20 Works celebrating British Music

    • Henry Purcell

      Come, ye sons of art (Ode for the Birthday of Queen Mary, 1694)

      Performers: Felicity Lott (soprano), Charles Brett & John Williams (countertenors), Thomas Allen (bass), Monteverdi Choir & Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • ERATO ECD88071.
  • 11.28am

    • Hoddinott

      Welsh Dances, Set 2, Op. 64

      Performers: National Youth Orchestra of Wales, Arthur Davison (conductor)

      • LYRITA SRCD334.
  • 11.37am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Sonata in A minor, Op.23

      Performers: Isabelle Faust (violin), Alexander Melnikov (piano)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902025.27.

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  • Thu 20 Jun 2013 09:00

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