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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Murray Perahia: Songs Without Words; Artist of the Week: Zoltan Kocsis; Sarah's Essential Choice: Balakirev: Symphony No 1.

With Sarah Walker and her guest the author, Philip Pullman. Also, at 9:30am, our brainteaser: Listener Puzzle

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Murray Perahia: Songs Without Words

10am
Artist of the Week: Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer, Zoltan Kocsis.

10.30am
In the week of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Children in Need, Sarah's guest is the multi-award winning author Philip Pullman, best known for the fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials. The final instalment, The Amber Spyglass, won the 2001 Whitbread Prize for best children's book and the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award. In 2005 Pullman won the biggest prize in children's literature, the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council. Many of his works have been adapted for screen including I Was a Rat!, The Butterfly Tattoo, The Ruby in the Smoke and a film adaptation of Northern Lights, titled The Golden Compass, was released in December 2007. In 2012, Pullman was asked by Penguin Classics to curate 50 of Grimms' classic fairytales, from their collection of over 200 tales.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Balakirev
Symphony No 1 in C
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert Von Karjan (conductor)
EMI

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 13 Nov 2013 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Francis Poulenc

    Liberte (Figure humaine)

    Choir: Swedish Radio Choir. Conductor: Peter Djikstra.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake (Danse espagnole)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.
    • Philips.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Carnaval romain, Op. 9

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA Victor.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Prelude 'Ich ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ', BWV 639

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Sony.

  • George Butterworth

    A Shropshire Lad: Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • Halle.

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • Richard Wagner

    Festive March (Parsifal)

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Philips.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Piccolo Recorder Concerto in C major RV.443

    Performer: Dan Laurin. Ensemble: Drottningholms Barockensemble.
    • BIS.

  • Hahn

    A Chloris

    Performer: Philippe Jarrousky (counter tenor). Performer: Jerome Ducros (piano).
    • VIRGIN.

  • Béla Bartók

    Kossuth

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • Hungaroton.

  • John Tavener

    Eternal Memory

    Performer: Josephone Knight (cello). Performer: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Vasily Petrenko (conductor).
    • EMI.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Barcarolle, Op.60

    Performer: Marc-André Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Michael Tippett

    Concerto for Double String Orchestra (3rd mvt)

    Orchestra: Moscow Chamber Orchestra. Orchestra: Bath Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Barshai.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Duetto in E minor, BWV802

    Performer: Simon Preston (organ).
    • DG.

  • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

    Symphony No. 1 in C major

    Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Balakirev: Symphony No. 1 / Roussel: Symphony No. 4.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1-4.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Liberte (Figure humaine)

    Performer: Swedish Radio Choir. Performer: Peter Djikstra (conductor).
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Menuet pompeux

    Performer: Toulouse Capitole Orchestra. Performer: Michel Plasson (conductor).
    • EMI.

Today’s Brainteaser Answer

Puzzle

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Three pieces of music: find the subject of the first, the compositional technique of the second, and the dedicatee of the third. What is the link to Petroc Trelawny?<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />Answer: Coffee, Serial (cereal), Tost (toast) = Breakfast.

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The music played:

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Bach

Ei! Wie schmeckt der Coffee süße (Coffee Cantata)

Barbara Bonney (soprano)

Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment

Gustav Leonhardt (director)

PHILIPS 442 779 2ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Berg

Violin Concerto (opening)

Kyung Wha Chung (violin)

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Sir Georg Solti (conductor)

DECCA 411804 2ÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌýÌý

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Haydn

Finale of String Quartet in D major op 64 no 5 (The Lark) – dedicated to Johann Tost

Gabrieli String Quartet

CHANDOS CHAN 8531ÌýÌýÌý

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