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Friday - 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

Fri 16 Aug 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Trumpet Tune

    Performers: Michael Laird Brass Ensemble, Peter Hurford (organ)

    • ARGO 4334512.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Wedding Day at Troldhaugen (from Lyric Pieces Book VI)

    Performers: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.550864.
  • Giuseppe Maria Cambini

    Wind Quintet No. 3 in F

    Performers: Avalon Win Quintet

    • NAXOS 8.553410.
  • 9.25: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Joseph Haydn

      Die Jahreszeiten: Overture to 'Der Winter'

      Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)

      • BIS CD 1818.
  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Only Connect

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

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Prelude and Fugue in C sharp minor

    Performers: Rafal Blechacz (piano)

    • DG 4779548.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Capriccio Espagnol, Op. 34

    Performers: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Kiril Kondrashin (conductor)

    • RCA 09026633022.
  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop (Dick Barton)

    Performers: Charles Williams Orchestra, Charles Williams (conductor)

    • EMI 5666762.
  • Bach arr Holst

    Fugue a la Gigue

    Performers: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Timothy Reynish (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN9697.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata BWV82 'Ich Habe Genug'

    Performers: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (mezzo soprano), Emmanuel Music Orchestra, Craig Smith (conductor)

    • NONESUCH 79692.
  • 10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices

    • George Frideric Handel

      Il Pastor Fido: "Lontan del mio tesoro"

      Performers: Anna Dennis (soprano), La Nuova Musica, David Bates (conductor)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI 907585.
  • György Ligeti

    Etudes pour piano: Etude 4 'Fanfares'

    Performers: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)

    • SONY SK 62308.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Suite on English Folk Tunes, Op. 90: The Bitter Withy; Hankin Booby

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 5739832.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Six Etudes Op.111 - No.3 (Prelude)

    Performers: Piers Lane (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67037.

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  • Fri 16 Aug 2013 09:00

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