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Friday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Brainteaser; Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy; Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 1 in B flat (Spring).

with Sarah Walker and her guest, developmental psychologist, Uta Frith.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

10.30am
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Schumann
Symphony No. 1 in B flat Op. 38 'Spring'
Staatskapelle Dresden
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor).

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Fri 4 Apr 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • anon

    Only Connect

  • anon

    Only Connect

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No.12 in A, K.414

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: Philharmonia.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in F minor, BWV 534

    Performer: Kevin Bowyer.
    • Nimbus.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondo in C major, Op 51 No 1

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Kuriose Geshichte (2nd piece from 'Kinderscenen', op.15)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Polonaise in A major, Op 40 No 1, 'Military'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Giovanni Rigatti

    Dixit Dominus

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • Archiv.

  • Trad

    Mu mano tulge latse

    Choir: Heinavanker.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Octet in E flat major, Op 20 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Primavera Chamber Ensemble.
    • ASV.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in D major, K.485

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • Naive.

  • Robert Parsons

    In nomine IV a 7; The Song called Trumpets a 6

    Director: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal Act I: Prelude

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • EMI.

  • Robert Schumann

    Symphony No.1 in B flat major, Op.38 'Spring'

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • EMI.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Spring Fairy (Cinderella, Op.87)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect

The connection was: Opus 15.

Μύ

The music played:

Μύ

Brahms
1st mvmt - piano concerto no 1 in D minor op. 15
Maurizio Pollini (piano)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Karl Bohm (conductor)
DG 419 470 2ΜύΜύ


Schumann
Kuriose Geshichte (2nd piece from β€˜Kinderscenen’ op.15)
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS 434 732 2Μύ


Beethoven
Finale - Piano concerto no 1 in C major op. 15
Radu Lupu (piano)
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Zubin Mehta (conductor)
DECCA 425 012 2Μύ

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  • Fri 4 Apr 2014 09:00
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