Monday - Sarah Walker with Howard Brenton
With Sarah Walker. Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances; Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires; Playwright Howard Brenton; Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
Sarah Walker with her guest, the playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at 9.30am, our daily brainteaser: Who's Dancing?
10am
Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires
10.30am
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg Büchner.
11am
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
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Jacques Offenbach
Gaite parisienne: Polka
Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.- Telarc.
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Frédéric Chopin
3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.1 in B flat minor)
Performer: Maria João Pires.- DG.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ruslan and Ludmilla: overture
Orchestra: Bolshoi Theatre Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Regis.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Chandos.
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Who's Dancing?
Conductor: anon. -
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah (Dublin version, 1742): Excerpts
Singer: Annie Gill. Singer: Matthew Brook. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort and Players. Conductor: John Butt.- Linn.
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Antonio Valente
Gagliarda napolitana
Performer: Daniel Hope. Ensemble: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- Air, A Baroque Journey: Daniel Hope.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major, K 254
Performer: Maria João Pires. Performer: Augustin Dumay. -
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Giuseppe Verdi
Il Corsaro - Overture
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.- Verdi: Overtures and Preludes: Berliner Philharmoniker, Karajan.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Béla Bartók
Piano Concerto No. 1: 3rd movement
Performer: Anda Géza. Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Ferenc Fricsay.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita for solo violin No. 1 in B minor: Sarabande; Double; Tempo di borea
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux.- Philips.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Gwendoline: overture
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- MERCURY.
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Vincenzo Bellini
Casta diva (Norma)
Singer: Maria Callas. Choir: Chorus of La Scala, Milan. Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.- EMI.
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Frédéric Chopin
Ballade No. 2 in F major, Op. 38; Ballade No. 3 in A flat major, Op. 47
Performer: Krystian Zimerman.- DG.
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Robert Schumann
Symphony No 1 in B flat major, Op 38, 'Spring'
Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- BIS.
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Edvard Grieg
Schmetterling, Op.43 No.1
Composer: Edvard Grieg. Performer: Emil Grigoryevich Gilels.- DG.
Today’s Brainteaser Answer
Who's Dancing? Mephistopheles
The music played:
Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
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