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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters perform; Walton: Violin Concerto.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg ? Complete Music with Orchestra ? Gothenburg Symphony, Neeme J盲rvi, DG; and at 9.30 our brainteaser - Who's Dancing?

10am
Artists of the Week: The Lab猫que Sisters perform

10.30am
The Man Booker Prize is announced this week and Sarah's guest is the 2011 prize-winner, the novelist Julian Barnes. A graduate of modern languages, Julian has worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and has written for the New Statesman and the Observer. He is a keen Francophile and has appeared in a 麻豆约拍 Radio 4 series of Inspector Maigret adaptations. Julian was made Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2004. His many international literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award (Metroland 1981); Prix M茅dicis (FP 1986); E. M. Forster Award (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1986) and the Prix Femina (Talking It Over 1992).

11am
Walton
Violin Concerto
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No 7 in A major

    Ensemble: Katia Lab猫que.
    • The Hungarian Dances.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 7.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt, Op. 23: Morning Mood; Arabian Dance; Anitra's Dance

    Ensemble: G枚sta Ohlin's Vocal Ensemble. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • DG.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Konzertst眉ck No. 2 in D minor, Op. 114

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
    • Weber, Mendelssohn, Baermann (clarinet: Sabine Meyer).
    • EMI.
    • 8-10.

  • Gerald Finzi

    Romance for strings, Op 11

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Decca.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No 2 (Danse boh猫me)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Mercury.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in G major H.15.25 'Gypsy rondo'

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zigeunerweisen, Op 20

    Performer: Akiko Suwanai. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

    4 Characteristic waltzes Op.22 (Valse de la reine)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lyrita.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV 217

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos - Carmignola/Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No. 4: 1st movement

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in E flat major, Op. 117 No. 1

    Performer: Wilhelm Kempff.
    • DG.

  • Claude Debussy

    Petite suite

    Ensemble: Katia Lab猫que. Ensemble: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • The Debussy Album.
    • Philips.
    • 4-7.

  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    Intermezzo no.2 (Suite 'The Jewels of the Madonna')

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Performer: Christine Messiter. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Wolf-Ferrari: Overtures & Intermezzi: Academy of St. Martin in the Field/Marrine.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 12.

  • William, Sir Walton

    Violin Concerto

    Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • LONDON.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Allegro in B flat major (Les Vendredis)

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • SIMAX.

  • Manuel Infante

    Danses andalouses

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que.
    • PHILIPS.

Today's Brainteaser: Who's Dancing?

The answer is: Carmen and the Gypsies.

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