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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker, and her guest, the nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey.

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. Today's artist is Lance Ryan, who has chosen the Finale of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 in D minor.

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

Wagner: Siegfried-Idyll
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)

11.24am
Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

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  • Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.

Music Played

  • Fitzenhagen

    Perpetuum mobile, Op. 24

    Performers: Leonid Gorokhov (cello), Colin Stone (piano)

    • OLYMPIA OCD 641.

  • 9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Giovanni Gabrieli

      Canzon duodecimi toni Γ  10, C.179

      Ensemble: Empire Brass Quintet and friends. Conductor: Rolf Smedvig.

      Performers: London Brass

      • WARNER APEX 0927408232.

  • Maurice Ravel

    La Parade

    Performers: Alexandre Tharaud (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2908450 51.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Sigurd Jorsalfar: Homage March

    Performers: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra, Gennady Rozhdestvensky (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN10287X.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Oboe Sonata

    Performers: Nicholas Daniel (oboe), Julius Drake (piano)

    • VIRGIN CUV 5 61141 2.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata IV in D minor

    Performers: Retrospect Trio

    • LINN CKD 332.

  • 10am: Proms Artists Recommend - Lance Ryan

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125: IV Presto – Allegro assai – 'Ode to Joy'

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Rosemarie Lang (alto), Robert Gambill (tenor), RenΓ© Pape (bass), Chorus of the Deutsche Staatsoper, Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • WARNER 2564 61890-2.

  • Johann Bernhard Bach

    Suite No. 4 in C: La Joye

    Performers: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood (trumpet), Daniel-Ben Pienaar (piano)

    • LINN CKD418.

  • 10.30: Richard Mabey's Choices

    • Juan de Araujo

      Los coflades de la estleya

      Performers: Ex Cathedra, Jeffrey Skidmore (conductor)

      • HYPERION CDA67380.

  • Leos JanÑček

    On an Overgrown Path: The Barn Owl has not flown away!

    Performers: Rudolf Firkusny (piano)

    • DG 449 7642.

  • Pandolfi

    Violin Sonata, Op. 4 No. 6 'La Vinciolina'

    Performers: Andrew Manze (violin), Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI 907241.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Richard Wagner

      Siegfried Idyll

      Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

      • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCSSA32713.

  • 11.18: Proms Artists Recommend - Lance Ryan

    • Igor Stravinsky

      The Rite of Spring: The Augurs of Spring - Dances of the young girls; Ritual of Abduction

      Performers: Fiona York & John York (piano duo)

      • NIMBUS NI 5866.

  • 11.25am

    • Johannes Brahms

      Symphony No. 3 in F major, Op. 90

      Performers: Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 704.

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