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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things; Artist of the Week: Julian Bream; Sarah's Essential Choice: Schubert: Die schone Mullerin.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser: Who's Dancing?
10am
Artist of the Week: Julian Bream, who celebrates his 80th birthday this year.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.

11am
Essential Choice

Schubert: Die schöne Müllerin (excerpts)
Ian Bostridge (tenor)
Graham Johnson (piano).

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Mon 9 Sep 2013 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 21 in E minor

    Orchestrator: Antonín Dvořák. Orchestrator: Antonín Dvořák. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iván Fischer. Conductor: Iván Fischer.
    • Brahms Hungarian Dances / Dvorak Slavonic Dances.
    • Decca.
    • 13.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.108 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Nimbus.

  • Edward Elgar

    La Capricieuse Op.17

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor: Overture

    Orchestra: Philhamonia Orchestra. Conductor: Constantin Silvestri.
    • EMI.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka (The Bartered Bride)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • EMI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Sonata No. 2 in A major, Op. 100

    Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • DG.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Thunder and Lightning Polka, Op.324

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Courtly Dances (Gloriana)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bream. Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Sony Classical.

  • Robert Schumann

    Koncertstuck for 4 horns and orchestra (Op.86) in F major, [complete]

    Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Performer: Roger Montgomery. Performer: Gavin Edwards. Performer: Susan Dent. Performer: Robert Maskell.
    • Schumann: Complete Symphonies: John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 1-3.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasie in C, D.934 (excerpt)

    Performer: Igor Ozim. Performer: Ilse von Alpenheim.
    • Schubert: Complete Chamber Music for Piano & Strings.
    • BIS.
    • 6.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91 No 2

    Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Singer: Jessye Norman.
    • Lieder (soprano: Jessye Norman, piano: Daniel Barenboim).
    • DG.
    • 20.

  • Dvorak

    The Devil and Kate - Overture to Act III

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vaclav Neumann.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Schubert

    Die schone Mullerin (Nos. 11-20)

    Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • Hyperion.

  • Clara Schumann

    Konzertsatz in F minor

    Performer: Lucy Parham. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • CIRRUS CLASSICS.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto after Sonata da Chiesa in D minor

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • Italian Concertos; Alison Balsom, Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 20.

Broadcast

  • Mon 9 Sep 2013 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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