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Friday - 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: Only Connect

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg BΓΌchner.

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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Fri 6 Dec 2013 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Kalevi Aho

    Symphony No. 1: 1st movement

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo VΓ€nskΓ€.
    • BIS.

  • anon

    Only Connect

    Conductor: anon.

  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Lucia di Lammermoor: 'Spargi d'amaro pianto'

    Performer: Raffaele AriΓ©. Choir: Chorus of the Maggio Musicale of Florence. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale of Florence. Singer: Maria Callas. Singer: Tito Gobbi. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
    • EMI.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe Concerto in A minor, BWV 1055

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • Newton Classics.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV825

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • RCA.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: AndrΓ© Previn.
    • DG.

  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Orchestra: HallΓ©. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • Edward Elgar

    Incidental music to Grania and Diarmid

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Overture

    Orchestra: The UK Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Regis.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in G, K.301

    Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Walter Klien.
    • Philips.

  • Michel‐Richard de Lalande

    Air de Combattants (Les Folies de Cardenio)

    Ensemble: Musica Florea. Director: Marek Ε tryncl.
    • MBF.

  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle Hélène (Overture)

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • French Bonbons: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44

    Performer: Maria João Pires. Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Gérard Caussé. Performer: Jian Wang.
    • DG.

  • Richard Arnell

    Symphony No.7 'Mandela', Op.201 real./compl.Yates

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.
    • DUTTON EPOCH.

  • Franz Schubert

    Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 no.4

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.
    • DG.

  • Vincent Youmans

    Tahiti Trot

    Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

Today’s Brainteaser Answer

Only Connect

The connection was Horses’ gaits – the way that horses move: Walk, Trot, Galop.

The music played:

Delius
The WALK to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo and Juliet
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
LONDON 421 390 2Β Β Β Β 

Youmans arr. Shostakovich
Tahiti TROT
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 433 702 2Β Β Β 

Koenig
Posthorn GALOP
The Regimental Band of the 17th/21st Lancers
BANDLEADER BNA5070Β 

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  • Fri 6 Dec 2013 09:00
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