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Thursday - 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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Thu 15 Aug 2013 09:00
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  • Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.

Music Played

  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Premier Concert: Gigue – Legerement

    Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

    • ALIA VOX AVSA9840.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Rondo Brillant

    Performers: John Ogdon (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato (conductor)

    • EMI 7046372.

  • 9.13: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Joseph Haydn

      Armida: Sinfonia in B, Hob. 1a:14

      Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)

      • BIS CD 1818.

  • Claude Debussy

    Deux Arabesques

    Performers: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

    • PHILIPS 422 4042.

  • Philippe Verdelot

    Nil Majus Superi Vident

    Performers: Alamire, David Skinner (conductor)

    • OBSIDIAN CD705.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

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

  • Francisco Corselli

    Il Farnace – Sinfonia

    Performers: El Concierto Espagnol, Emilio Moreno (director)

    • GLOSSA GCD 80307.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Raymonda: Suite from the Ballet Op. 57a – Act I Entr'acte

    Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)

    • WARNER 2564619392.

  • Gesualdo

    O Crux Benedicta

    Performers: Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.550742.

  • 9.53am

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      18 Morceaux Op. 72: Impromptu & Berceuse

      Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

      • DG 477 5378.

  • 10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices

    • Maurice Ravel

      L'enfant et les sortilèges: "How's your mug?"

      Performers: Fire: Annick Massis (soprano), Shepherdess: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Child: Magdalena Kozena (mezzo soprano), Shepherd: Sophie Koch (mezzo soprano), Cup: Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Teapot: Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

      • EMI 2641972.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Peter Grimes: "Now the great bear and Pleiades…"

    Performers: Peter Grimes: Alan Oke, Nieces: Alexandra Hutton & Charmain Bedford, Bob Boles: Robert Murray, Captain Balstrode: David Kempster, Auntie: Gaynor Keeble, The Chorus of Opera North, Britten–Pears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor)

    • SIGNUM SIGCD348.

  • Johann Joseph Fux

    Ouverture a 7

    Performers: European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortenson (conductor)

    • CLASSICAL COMMUNICATIONS CCL CDG1211.

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  • Thu 15 Aug 2013 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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