Tuesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Viva Verdi: Overtures and Preludes; Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis; Astronomer Carolin Crawford; Essential Choice: Brahms: Piano Concerto No 2.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Viva Verdi: Overtures and Preludes - Filarmonica della Scala/Riccardo Chailly, DECCA; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Critics' Corner.
10am
Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis
10.30am
Sarah's guest in World Space Week, is the astronomer Carolin Crawford. Carolin regularly delivers science outreach presentations to over 4,000 people annually and is a regular in broadcast media, with numerous appearances on programmes such as In Our Time and Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Planet on Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4. She is a Fellow and Lecturer at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, as well as Professor of Astronomy at Gresham College, a position in which she delivers free public lectures within the City of London. In 2009 Carolin was recognized for her outstanding abilities by a Women of Outstanding Achievement Award by the UK Resource Centre for Women in Science, Engineering and Technology, presented for "communication of science with a contribution to society."
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat, Op. 83
Emil Gilels (piano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Eugen Jochum (conductor).
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Sergey Prokofiev
March Op.99
Ensemble: Eastman Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Giuseppe Verdi
La Traviata: Prelude to Act I
Orchestra: Filarmonica della Scala. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzona 13 a 12; Canzona 9 a 10
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- Virgin.
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche, Op 28
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.- EMI.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Wasps Overture
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Warner.
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Franz Schubert
Rondo brillant, D 895
Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: CΓ©dric Tiberghien.- Hyperion.
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ClΓ©ment Doucet
Chopinata
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- Le Boeuf sur le toit : Swinging Paris.
- Virgin.
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Alexander Borodin
Symphony No 2 in B minor
Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- CBS Maestro.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 40 in G minor, K.550
Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.- Archiv.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Verklärte Nacht, Op. 4: Conclusion
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- Verklärte Nacht / Variationen für Orchester (Berliner Philharmoniker feat. condu.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 004.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Hear my Prayer
Performer: Rachel Bennett (soprano). Performer: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Performer: Mark Williams (organ). Performer: Richard Marlow (conductor).- CHANDOS.
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Johannes Brahms
Piano Concerto No. 2 in B flat major, Op. 83
Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Eugen Jochum.- DG.
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Bach
The Art of Fugue: Contrapunctus 8 in 3 parts
Performer: Musica Antiqua Köln. Performer: Reinhard Goebel (director).- DG.
Today’s Brainteaser Answer
Critics' Corner
Frederic Chopin, after giving the premiere of his Second Piano Concerto in October 1830, just before he left Poland for the last time.
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