Monday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures - Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; Proms Artist Recommends; Professor Lavinia Greenlaw.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures played by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Lavinia Greenlaw, Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collections include Night Photograph; The Casual Perfect; and Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has written several novels, Mary George of Allnorthover and An Irresponsible Age, as well as two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2011 her sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Lavinia's work for music includes several opera libretti for composers Richard Ayres and Ian Wilson. She has also written and adapted dramas for radio, and has made documentaries on the Arctic, the Baltic, mountains, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, the darkest place in England, and the solstices and equinoxes.
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Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.
Music Played
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Clementi
12 Monferrinas, Op. 49 No. 2
Performers: Lilya Zilberstein (piano)
- HANNSLER HAEN93096.
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9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Joseph Haydn
Acide - Sinfonia in D major Hob Ia: 5
Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)
- BIS CD 1818.
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Robert Schumann
Fantasiestucke, Op. 73
Performers: Karen Geoghegan (bassoon), Philip Edward Fischer (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10703.
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AntonΓn DvoΕ™Γ΅k
Carnival Overture
Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
- ONDINE ODE 962-2D.
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Today's Brainteaser
Who's Dancing?
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 2 in D, K.155
Performers: Hagen Quartet
- DG 431 6452.
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Manuel Cardoso
Sitivit anima mea
Performers: Contrapunctus, Owen Rees (director)
- SIGNUM SIGCD338.
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10am: Proms Artists Recommend: Cerys Matthews
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet No. 14 in C sharp minor Op. 131: IV Andante ma non troppo e molto cantabile
Performers: Kodaly Quartet
- NAXOS 8.554594.
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10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825
Performers: Richard Goode (piano)
- NONESUCH 7559796982.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge: No. 1 On Wenlock Edge
Performers: Mark Padmore (tenor), Schubert Ensemble
- CHANDOS CHAN 10465.
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Muzio Clementi
12 Monferrinas, Op. 49 No. 2
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Joseph Haydn
Acide: Sinfonia in D major, Hob.1a:5
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Robert Schumann
Fantasiestucke, Op. 73
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AntonΓn DvoΕ™Γ΅k
Carnival Overture
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Anon.
Today's Brainteaser - Who's Dancing?
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet No. 2 in D, K.155
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Amilcare Ponchielli
La Gioconda, Act II "Cielo e mar!"
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Manuel Cardoso
Sitivit anima mea
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet, Op. 131: 4th movement
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No. 1 in B flat, BWV 825
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
On Wenlock Edge: 1st Movement
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