Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Handel Keyboard Suites; Artist of the Week: the Gabrieli Consort and Players; Shostakovich: Symphony No 5.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Handel Keyboard Suites performed by Anne QueffΓ©lec.
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, The Gabrieli Consort and Players
10.30am
In the week of the Henley Royal Regatta, Sarah's guest is the Olympic and double world champion in rowing, Anna Watkins. Anna forged a formidable partnership with Katherine Grainger in the double scull and they have won gold in every World Cup regatta they have entered, the total winning streak currently standing at 23 races over three years. Having won back-to-back World titles in 2010 and 2011, the partnership memorably won gold at the London 2012 Olympics in front of an ecstatic home crowd. Anna was awarded the MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list.
11am
Shostakovich Symphony No.5
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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9am: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort
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George Frideric Handel
Solomon: "Swell, swell the full chorus"
Performers: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
- ARCHIV 459 6882.
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9.04: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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George Frideric Handel
Suite in D minor HWV 428: Presto
Performers: Anne Queffelec (piano)
- MIRARE MIR010.
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Alexander Glazunov
Incidental music to Salome, Op. 90: Dance
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
- WARNER 2564 696270.
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Ireland
A London Overture
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 8879.
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Adolphe Adam
Giselle - Scene des Willis (EntrΓ©e d'Hilarion)
Performers: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Richard Bonynge (conductor)
- DECCA 4175052.
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9.36: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Magnificat a 33
Performers: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
- ARCHIV 449 1802.
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Francis Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence: Salve Regina
Performers: RIAS Kammerchor, Marcus Creed (conductor)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMG 508394.95.
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Adolphe Adam
Giselle - Conclusion to Act II
Performers: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Richard Bonynge (conductor)
- DECCA 4175052.
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9.56: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Missa Salisburgensis: Kyrie; Gloria
Performers: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)
- ARCHIV 457 6112.
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Luigi Boccherini
Symphony No. 21 in C, Op. 37 No. 1
Performers: London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10604.
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10.30: Anna Watkins' Choices
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Act I, No. 4 Pas de trois
Performers: Russian State Symphony Orchestra, Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.555873-74.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Concerto No. 3 in G, K.216: Rondeau
Performers: Itzhak Perlman (violin), Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)
- DG 410 0202.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Well Tempered Clavier Book I - Prelude and Fugue in C BWV896
Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)
- HYPERION CDS CDS44291/4.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 5
Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review
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Bortnyansky
Sacred Concerto No.12
Performers: Russian State Symphonic Orchestra, Valeri Polyansky (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN9783.
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Modest Mussorgsky
First Punishment (Souvenir D'enfance No.2)
Performers: Margeret Fingerhut (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN.
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