Friday - 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: Schubert: Symphony No 8.
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 - Only Connect.
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 麻豆约拍 Planet on 麻豆约拍 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
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D.759 (Unfinished)
Vienna Philharmonic
Carlos Kleiber (conductor).
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Alfredo Casella
11 Pezzi infantili, Op. 35 No. 11: Galop final
Performer: Luca Ballerini.- Naxos.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Nabucco: Sinfonia
Orchestra: Filarmonica della Scala. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Juan Bautista Jos茅 Cabanilles
Batalla Imperial
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Joachim Raff
Prelude to Shakespeare's The Tempest
Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Various Artists
Only Connect
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Frederick Delius
On Hearing the First Cuckoo in Spring
Orchestra: 麻豆约拍 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Teldec.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Symphony in G major, Wq deest Chen: G3
Orchestra: L鈥橭rfeo Barockorchester. Conductor: Michi Gaigg.- CPO.
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George Frideric Handel
Zadok the priest
Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Coro.
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Edward Elgar
Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85
Performer: Paul Watkins. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- Chandos.
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
String Quartet No 2, 'Intimate Letters' (4th mvt)
Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.- Supraphon.
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Claude Debussy
Feux d'artifice (Preludes, Book 2)
Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Mark Elder.- 贬补濒濒茅.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in A flat, Op. 72 No. 16
Performer: Czech Philharmonic orchestra. Performer: Vaclav Neumann (conductor).- WARNER APEX.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No. 8 in B minor 'Unfinished'
Performer: Franz Schubert.- Carlos Kleiber: Shubert, Brahms, Wagner (feat. conductor: Carlos Kleiber).
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Sweelinck
Die flichtig Nimphae, SwVW 331
Performer: Robert Woolley (harpsichord).- CHACONNE.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Piano Quartet, Op. 15 No. 1: 4th mvt; Allegro molto
Performer: Kim Kashkashian. Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.- Philips.
Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answer
Only Connect
The connection was ways of preparing Chicken: Coronation, Kiev and Chasseur.
The music played:
Handel
Coronation Ode: Zadok the Priest
Choir of Westminster Abbey
The English Concert
Simon Preston (director)
ARCHIV 410 030 2聽聽
Mussorgsky
The Great Gate of Kiev (Pictures at an Exhibition)
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 417 299 2聽聽
Franck
Le Chasseur Maudit
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI CDC 747 849 2聽聽
Broadcast
- Fri 11 Oct 2013 09:00麻豆约拍 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.
Time Travellers: the podcast
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.
