Tuesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters perform; Essential Choice: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.
9am A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg ? Complete Music with Orchestra ? Gothenburg Symphony, Neeme J盲rvi (conductor), and at 9.30 our brainteaser: Critic's Corner.
10am
Artists of the Week: The Lab猫que Sisters
10.30am
With the result of the Man Booker Prize announced today, 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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
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Antonio Lotti
Crucifixus 脿 8
Choir: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Palestrina/Allegri: Miserere: The Sixteen/Christophers.
- Coro.
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Dmitri Kabalevsky
Comedians' Galop (The Comedians, Op 26)
Performer: Kirill Kondrashin. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra.- RCA Living Stereo.
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Josef Suk
Fantastic Scherzo op.25
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Decca.
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Edvard Grieg
Two Elegiac Melodies, Op 34
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- DG.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Vedi! Le fosche notturne (Il trovatore)
Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- EMI.
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Anton Stepanovich Arensky
Concert Waltz in B flat major
Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.- Teldec.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
La muse et le po猫te, Op 132
Performer: Ulf Hoelscher. Performer: Ralph Kirshbaum. Conductor: Pierre Dervaux. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Brilliant Classics.
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Franz Schubert
Ave Maria, D.839
Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Dalton Baldwin.- Philips.
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George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Hector Berlioz
Beatrice et Bendict: overture
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- CHANDOS.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Les Cyclopes
Music Arranger: Hekkema. Ensemble: Calefax.- MDG.
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Pauline Viardot
Havanaise
Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.- Decca.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonata in F major, Op. 24 'Spring': I. Allegro
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Decca.
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脡douard Lalo
Scherzo for orchestra
Orchestra: Orquesta sinf贸nica de Madrid. Conductor: Carlos Kalmar.- Edouard Lalo: Symphonie Espagnole.
- Warner Classics.
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Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op. 14
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Decca.
Today's Brainteaser answer: Critic's Corner
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