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Friday - Sarah Walker with Chris Beardshaw

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Cello World: Steven Isserlis with Thomas Ades, Artist of the Week: Alina Ibragimova and Sarah's guest, garden designer Chris Beardshaw.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Cello World, featuring Steven Isserlis with Thomas Ades. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Alina Ibragimova

10.30am
In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest is the award-winning garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.

Chris is principally trained in landscape architecture and separately as a horticulturalist, which makes him a rare combination in the garden design world. His enthusiasm for plants, good design and the desire to work in harmony with the natural landscape and wildlife is reflected throughout his work.

His long broadcasting career includes the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's Gardeners' World and series such as Hidden Gardens and the hugely popular The Flying Gardener, amongst many others. He is also a regular expert on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time panel, where he intrepidly faces a live audience of gardening enthusiasts!

Chris has received over 15 RHS medals, many of which are Best in Shows and Gold awards, as well as a growing selection of international accolades. He has also written a number of books, including 100 Plants that Almost Changed the World, and he currently contributes columns for The English Garden Magazine and for Garden News.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Brahms
Piano Trio No. 1 in B, Op. 8
Beaux Arts Trio

Produced by Dominic Wells
A Classic Arts Production.

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Fri 23 May 2014 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jules Massenet

    Don Cesar de Bazan: Sevillana - Entr'acte to Act III

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo for piano and orchestra, K.382

    Performer: Alfred Brendel. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Philips.

  • Mátyás Seiber

    Dance Suite

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Maggie Cole.
    • RCA.

  • Joachim Raff

    Macbeth - Overture

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • Chandos.

  • anon

    Only Connect

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Three Paganini Caprices

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Cédric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.

  • anon

    Only Connect

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise No. 6 in A flat, Op. 53 ‘Heroic’

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Decca.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in D minor

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker: The Waltz of the Flowers

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • DG.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Divertissement, Op. 43bis: Nocturne

    Performer: Boris Berman.
    • Chandos.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Andante with Variations in D

    Performer: Benjamin Nicholas (organ).
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Trio No 1 in B major, Op 8 (1st mvt)

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.

  • G Pierne

    Pastorale

    Performer: Quintessence.
    • CLASSICAL RECORDING COMPANY.

  • William Walton

    Suite from Henry V

    Performer: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Andrew Litton (conductor).
    • DECCA.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect

The connection was Cornwall.


The music played:


Bax
Tintagel
Ulster Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 6538  


Wagner
Act 1, scene 4 Tristan and Isolde
Tristan: Wolfgang Windgassen (tenor)
IsIsolde: Birgit Nilsson (soprano)
Bayreuth Festival Orchestra
Karl Böhm (conductor)
DG 419 889 2   


Arnold
The Padstow Lifeboat
Grimethorpe Colliery Band
Sir Malcolm Arnold (conductor)
CONIFER CDCF 222  

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  • Fri 23 May 2014 09:00
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