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Live at Southbank Centre: Sarah Walker with Jude Kelly

With Sarah Walker. Essential CD of the Week: Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Brainteaser; Guest: Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly; Mozart: Coronation Mass in C, K317.

Live at Southbank Centre with Sarah Walker and her guest, the centre's Artistic Director, Jude Kelly.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Brahms - Hungarian Dances ? The Labeques, DECCA. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: a selection of recordings from Southbank Centre's four resident orchestras - London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Sinfonietta.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Southbank Centre's current Artistic Director, Jude Kelly OBE. Jude has directed over 100 productions, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the English National Opera, at the Châtelet in Paris and in the West End. Among her many successes as a director, her production of Singin' in the Rain transferred twice to the Royal National Theatre and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production in 2001. She directed Sir Ian McKellen in The Seagull and The Tempest, Patrick Stewart in Othello, Dawn French in When We Are Married, and the English National Opera in The Elixir of Love and On the Town. More recently, she directed several works by Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Peña, as well as a production of Bernstein's Mass at the Royal Festival Hall. In 2006, Jude was named No. 8 in "Theatreland's top 100 players" by The Independent newspaper, and in 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman's Hour on 鶹Լ Radio 4.

11am
Mozart
'Coronation' Mass in C major, K.317
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Café to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

3 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Today's Brainteaser - Transport of Delight

    Actor: anon.
  • Anton Fils

    Sinfonia in G minor

    Orchestra: Concerto Köln.
    • TELDEC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C major, K.317 'Coronation'

    Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Catherine Wyn-Rogers. Singer: Jamie MacDougall. Singer: Stephen Gadd. Choir: Choir of the English Concert. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Johannes Brahms

    21 Hungarian Dances (nos 4 and 5)

    Performer: Katia Labèque. Performer: Marielle Labèque.
    • PHILIPS.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Frémaux.
    • EMI.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas: opening

    Singer: Lynne Dawson. Singer: Rosemary Joshua. Singer: María Cristina Kiehr. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: René Jacobs.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Four Miniatures for 2 violins and viola, Op.75a

    Ensemble: Panocha Quartet.
    • SUPRAPHON.
  • Ernesto Lecuona

    Granada

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Spanish Dance in A major, Op.12 No.3

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ataúlfo Argenta.
    • DECCA.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Bless the Lord, O my soul (Vespers, Op 37)

    Choir: Accentus. Choir: Eric Ericsons Kammarkör. Director: Laurence Equilbey.
    • NAIVE.
  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata in D major, D 384, 'Sonatina'

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Performer: Martin Helmchen.
    • PENTATONE.
  • Franz Schubert

    Andante Molto (Sonata No. 7 in E flat major, D.568)

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for violin and orchestra (RV.365) in B flat major [complete]

    Ensemble: La Serenissima. Performer: Adrian Chandler. Performer: Katy Bircher. Performer: Gail Hennessy. Performer: Peter Whelan.
    • Vivaldi: The French Connection 2.
    • Avie.
    • 28.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Dance of the Knights (Romeo and Juliet)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Esa‐Pekka Salonen.
    • CBS.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: CBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Stravinsky.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

Today's Brainteaser Answer

The mode of transport was the Spitfire.

The music played was Walton's Spitfire and Fugue

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