Thursday - Sarah Walker
A sequence of great music in classic recordings, with Sarah Walker and her guest Richard Mabey, the nature writer and broadcaster.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day an artist performing later today in the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around 10am.
10.30am
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ radio. He has also written a personal column in ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Wildlife Magazine since 1986.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127
Takacs Quartet
11.40
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 2
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor).
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Bacewicz
Oberek
Performers: Midori (violin), Robert McDonald (piano)
- SONY SK52568.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Symphony No. 6 in E flat major
Performers: London Festival Orchestra, Ross Pople (conductor)
- HYPERION CDA66561/3.
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Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
Islamey
Performers: Freddy Kempf (piano)
- BIS-SACD-1580.
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9.24: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Marini
Sonata in Echo
Performers: London Brass
- WARNER APEX 0927408232.
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9.30am
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Today's Brainteaser
Who am I?
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Furchte dich, bin ich bei dir, BWV 288
Performers: Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG716.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65
Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)
- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 336-2.
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Percy Grainger
Scotch Strathspey and Reel
Performers: Marc-Andre-Hamelin (piano)
- HYPERION CDA66884.
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10am: Proms Artists Recommend - Juanjo Mena
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Anton Bruckner
Symphony No. 7: II. Adagio
Performers: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)
- EMI 5 56695 2.
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10.30: Richard Mabey's Choices
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah, Part II: Surely he hath borne our griefs; And with His stripes we are healed; All
Performers: Choir of New College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Edward Higginbottom (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.570131-32.
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Golijov
Ayre: Wa Habibi (My Love)
Performers: Dawn Upshaw (soprano), The Andalucian Dogs
- DG 477 5414.
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Roussel
Joueurs pour flute, Op. 27: Tityre
Performers: Kenneth Smith (flute), Paul Rhodes (piano)
- DIVINE ART dda35066.
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127
Performers: Takacs Quartet
- DECCA 470 849-2.
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JeanβPhilippe Rameau
Fanfarinette
Performers: John Kitchen (harpsichord)
- DELPHIAN DCD34112.
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11.41am
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Camille SaintβSaΓ«ns
Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119
Performers: Lynn Harrell (cello), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
- DECCA 475 465-2.
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