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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Marina Lewycka

With Sarah Walker. Including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet and Sarah's guest, the author Marina Lewycka.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the novelist, Marina Lewycka.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, CHANDOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Marina Lewycka. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay Literary Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into thirty-five languages. Marina's other novels include We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead, and Two Caravans, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In 2009, she donated the short story The Importance of Having Warm Feet to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, as well as another short story, Business Philosophy, to the Amnesty International anthology, Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 'Little Russian'
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Alonso Mudarra

    Fantasia in the style of Ludovico's Harp (transcribed for piano by Rodrigo)

    Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • NAXOS.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI.

  • Richard Wagner

    Isoldes Liebestod from 'Tristan und Isolde' S447

    Performer: Louis Lortie.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.
    • CHANDOS.

  • anon

    Today's Brainteaser - Endings

    Conductor: anon.

  • Henry Purcell

    Sonata for trumpet and strings in D major Z.850

    Performer: Mark Bennett. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joaquín Rodrigo

    Diferencias sobre El Canto del Caballero & 3 Pavanes (16th century pieces)

    Performer: Artur Pizarro.
    • NAXOS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le corsaire

    Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • DECCA.

  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV77

    Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Peter Harvey. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Night on the River

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Henry Purcell

    Pavane in A minor, Z.749

    Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Trio sonata in A major Op.3`12

    Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.
    • HYPERION.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Barrel-organ Waltz from The Gadfly

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Performer: Neville Marriner.
    • EMI.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in B minor op 69 no 2

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.
    • Naxos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    3rd mvmt - Horn concerto no 4 in E flat K495

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • Erato.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Pictures at an Exhibition (Conclusion)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • Mendelssohn arr Cassidy

    On Wings of Song op 34 no 2

    Performer: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17 'Little Russian'

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
    • MERCURY.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in G major, K.283

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • PHILIPS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Endings

The music played:

Ìý

Mendelssohn
Midsummer Night’s Dream
London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)
DECCA 466 990 2ÌýÌý

Ìý

Mozart
Magic Flute Overture
Dresden Staatskapelle
Sir Colin Davis
RCA 74321 566982ÌýÌý


Berlioz
Le Corsair
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 452 064 2ÌýÌý

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