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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters; Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg ? Complete Music with Orchestra ? Gothenburg Symphony, Neeme JΓ€rvi (conductor); and at 9.30 our brainteaser: Identify the Endings

10am
Artists of the Week: The Labèque Sisters

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 MΓ©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

Tchaikovsky
Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)

Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Sarah dips into her CD collection and shares a piece ? it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!

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Wed 16 Oct 2013 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean‐Marie Leclair

    Scylla et Glaucus, Act II scene 5: Entr'acte

    Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Erato.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ruslan and Ludmila (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Two Lyric Pieces, Op 68

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • DG.

  • Edward Elgar

    Introduction and Allegro

    Performer: Allegri String Quartet. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Slavonic Dance in A major, Op. 46 No. 5

    Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Labèque.
    • Philips.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • Chandos.

  • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

    1812 Overture, Op 49

    Choir: Chorus of the National Academy of Santa Cecilia. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.
    • EMI.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in F minor for piano duet, D 940

    Ensemble: Katia Labèque.
    • KML RECORDINGS.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Suite d'apres Corrette

    Performer: Fibonacci Sequence. Performer: Julian Farrell.
    • DEUX-ELLES.

  • Stephen Sondheim

    The little things you do together (Company)

    Singer: Debra Monk. Singer: Boyd Gaines. Singer: Kate Burton. Singer: Robert Westenburg. Singer: Patricia Ben Peterson. Singer: Jonathan Dokuchitz. Singer: Diana Canova. Singer: John Hillner. Singer: Veanne Cox. Singer: Danny Burstein. Singer: Timothy Landfield. Singer: La Chanze. Singer: Charlotte d'Ambroise. Singer: Jane Krakowski. Orchestra: Stage Band. Conductor: David Loud.
    • Angel.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orphee et Eurydice, Act III: 'J'ai perdu mon Eurydice'

    Singer: Susan Graham. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Erato.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso (Op.6`3) in E minor

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Handel: Twelve Concerti Grossi, Op.6 Il Giardino Armonico - Giovanni Antonini.
    • Decca.
    • 10.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - Fantasy Overture

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andris Nelsons.
    • Orfeo.

  • Mark Saya

    Barcarolles

    Performer: Piers Lane.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Symphony no. 8 in F major, Op.93

    Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Beethoven: Symphonies 1-9: Harnoncourt, Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.
    • 6.

  • Henry Purcell

    An Evening Hymn

    Performer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Anthony Rooley. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'OISEAU LYRE.

Today's Brainteaser: Name the Endings

The endings we heard were from:
Strauss: Til EulenspiegelTchaikovsky: 1812 OvertureRavel: Bolero

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