Monday - Sarah Walker with Michael Boyd
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Fantasy - A Night at the Opera, with Emmanuel Pahud; Brainteaser: Place that Piece; Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little; Beethoven: Symphony No 7.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the theatre director Michael Boyd.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fantasy ? A Night at the Opera, Emmanuel Pahud, EMI. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little.
10.30am
2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and Sarah's guest this week is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Sir Michael Boyd. Michael trained as a director in Moscow, before joining the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and becoming the founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He joined the RSC in 1996, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic, as part of the This England: The Histories cycle. He assumed control of the RSC in 2003, burdened with a deficit of Β£2.8m, with a remit to turn its fortunes around. He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival and a London season at the Novello Theatre, and in 2007 he launched the long-awaited redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Michael was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
11am
Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A, Op. 92.
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Music Played
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Frank Bridge
Spring Song (4 Short Pieces)
Performer: Steven Doane. Performer: Barry Snyder.- Bridge Records.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Festive Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Signum.
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Francis Poulenc
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Performer: Pascal RogΓ©.- Decca.
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Fobbes
Fantasy on Mozart's Magic Flute
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zetβSΓ©guin.- EMI.
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Place that Piece
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Henryk Wieniawski
LΓ©gende, Op 17
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane. Music Arranger: August Wilhelmj.- EMI.
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Benjamin Britten
A Hymn of St Columba
Performer: James OβDonnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.- Hyperion.
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AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Violin Concerto in A minor, op. 53
Performer: Tasmin Little. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- EMI.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Symphony No. 7 'Leningrad': Moderato (poco allegretto)
Orchestra: Kirov Orchestra. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.- Philips.
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Claude Debussy
Preludes: Des pas sur le neige
Performer: Werner Haas.- Philips.
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Gabriel FaurΓ©
Apres un Reve
Performer: Gil Shaham (violin). Performer: Akira Eguchi (piano). Performer: Brinton Smith (cello).- VANGUARD CLASSICS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- Hyperion.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Burlesque de Quixotte
Performer: Collegium Musicum 90. Performer: Simon Standage (director).- CHACONNE.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece
The place was Norfolk, and the music was Vaughan Williamsβ Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1.
The music played:
Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody No. 1
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
EMI 5554872
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