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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Handel Keyboard Suites; Artist of the Week: Gabrieli Consort and Players; Essential Choice: Franck: Symphony in D minor.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Handel Keyboard Suites performed by Anne Queff茅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, Saraha'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
Essential Choice

Franck: Symphony in D minor
Orchestre de la Suisse Romande
Marek Janowski (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Hippolyte et Aricie: Overture

    Performers: Les Arts Florissants, William Christie (conductor)

    • ERATO 0630155172.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    K枚nig Stephan (King Stephen): Incidental music, Op. 117

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 427 2562.

  • 9.12: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • George Frideric Handel

      Minuet in G minor from Suite, HWV 434 (arr. Kempff)

      Performers: Anne Queffelec (piano)

      • MIRARE MIR010.

  • Richard Strauss

    Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme: The Dinner

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 3393392.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G K523

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • VIRGIN 5619632.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV 107, 'Was willst du dich Betr眉ben': "Herr, gib, dass ich dein' Ehre"

    Performers: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century, Frans Br眉ggen (conductor)

    • GLOSSA GCD 921117.

  • 9.35: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Laudate pueri

      Performers: Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 479 0441.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Schon lacht der holde Fr眉hling, K.580

    Performers: Miah Persson聽(Soprano), Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Sebastian Weigle (conductor)

    • BIS CD 1529.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in D minor Op.103

    Performers: Amadeus Quartet

    • DG 4291892.

  • 10.03: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort

    • LASSUS

      Missa 'Congratulamini mihi': Sanctus a 6; Agnus Dei a 6; Sonata octavi toni 12 (G Gabrieli

      Performers: The Gabrieli Consort & Players, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 453 42722.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Study Op.42 No.3 in F sharp major

    Performers: Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

    • CONIFER CDCF204.

  • Max Bruch

    Romance in F for viola and orchestra, Op. 85

    Performers: Janine Jansen (viola), Leipzig Gewandhausorchester, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 8328.

  • 10.30: Anna Watkins' Choices

    • George Frideric Handel

      Messiah, Part II: 'All we like sheep'

      Performers: Choir of King's College, Cambridge, The Brandenburg Consort, Stephen Cleobury (conductor)

      • ARGO 440 6722.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 3 in E, BWV 1006

    Performer: Isabelle Faust.

    Performers: Vanessa Mae (violin)

    • EMI 555395 2.

  • Thomas Koppel

    Nele's Dances - No.16

    Performers: Michala Petri (recorder), Lars Hannibal (lute)

    • RCA 74321591122.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • C茅sar Franck

      Symphony in D minor

      Performers: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Marek Janowski (conductor)

      • PENTATONE PTC5186078.

  • Jean鈥怣arie Leclair

    Deuxieme Recreation de Musique Op.8 - Forlane

    Performers: The Four Nations Ensemble

    • ORCHID CLASSICS ORC100032.

  • 11.44am

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Fantasie in F minor, Op. 49

      Performers: Krystian Zimerman (piano)

      • DG 423 0902.

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