Wednesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD othe Week: Haydn Overtures - Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; Proms Artist Recommends: Kirill Karabits; 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'. Kirill Karabits the conductor of tonight's Prom recommends a great work that deserves to be better known.
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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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No. 10 in F
Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 410 6152.
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Franz Schubert
Six Grandes Marches and Trios, D.819 No. 6 in E
Performers: Christoph Eschenbach and Justus Frantz (piano)
- EMI 36532127.
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Richard Wagner
Die Meistersinger von Nurnberg: Prelude
Performers: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)
- DG 479 1120.
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9.22: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Joseph Haydn
Die Feuersbrunst Sinfonia in C, Hob. XXIXa:4
Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)
- BIS CD 1818.
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Today's Brainteaser
Back to the Beginning
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Aram Khachaturian
Spartacus - Dance of the Nymphs
Performers: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, Kirill Karabits (conductor)
- ONYX 4063.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in E minor, TWV 52
Performers: La Stagione Frankfurt, Michael Schneider (conductor)
- CPO 7774012.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Waltz in D flat Op.64 No.1 'Minute'
Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano)
- RCA RD89564.
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Amy Beach
Three Songs Op. 21: No. 1 Chanson d'amour
Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Charles Medlam (cello), James Lisney (piano)
- BIS CD 1245.
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10am: Proms Artists Recommend - Kirill Karabits
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 11 in G minor, Op. 103: IV The Tocsin
Performers: Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, Kirill Kondrashin (conductor)
- MELODIYA MEL CD 74321198432.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 25 in C, Hob I:25
Performers: Sinfonia Finlandia, Patrick Gallois (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.570761.
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10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices
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Anon.
Black is the Colour of my True Love's Hair
Performers: Alfred Deller (countertenor), Desmond DuprΓ© (lute)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMA195226.
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Henry Purcell
Funeral Music for Queen Mary, Z.27
Performers: Equale Brass Ensemble, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- ERATO ECD 88071.
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Mompou
Impresiones Intimas - No.3
Performers: Federico Mompou (piano)
- BRILLIANT 6515/4.
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