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Tuesday - 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.

2 hours

Last on

Tue 13 Aug 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Howard Ferguson

    4 Short Pieces for clarinet and piano, Op. 6: No. 4 Burlesque: Con spirito

    Performers: Einar Johannesson (clarinet), Philip Jenkins (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN9079.
  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Devil's Wall - Prelude and Infernal Dance

    Performers: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10518.
  • 9.10: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Joseph Haydn

      L'Infedelta Delusa - Sinfonia in C, Hob. 1a:1

      Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)

      • BIS CD 1818.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Prelude No. 17 in A flat, Op. 28 No. 17

    Performers: Grigory Sokolov (piano)

    • NAÏVE NC 40027.
  • Claude Debussy

    Danse (orch. Ravel)

    Performers: Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Markl (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.509002.
  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • Nikolay Gorlov

    Suite – Sonatina

    Performers: Ivan Paisov (oboe), Natalia Shcherbakova (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.570596.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1041

    Performers: Viktoria Mullova (violin), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director)

    • ONYX 4114.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Poem of Ecstasy

    Performers: USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

    • ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ LEGENDS ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔL41212.
  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Nocturne no.6 in D flat major Op.63

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.

    Performers: Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93007/1.
  • 10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi (Book 8): Lamento della ninfa

      Performers: Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Lambert Climent & Francesc Garrigosa (tenors), Daniele Carnovich (bass), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall (director)

      • ASTREE E 8546.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Lieutenant KijΓ©: 'The Birth of KijΓ©'

    Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 5062.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Three Pieces for String Quartet No. 3

    Performers: Alban Berg Quartet

    • EMI CDC 7543472.
  • Isaac AlbΓ©niz

    Tango Op.165 No.2

    Performers: Kathryn Stott (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10493.

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  • Tue 13 Aug 2013 09:00

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