Thursday - Sarah Walker with Mark Damazer
With Sarah Walker. Includes CD of the Week: Weber Overtures; Brainteaser; Artist of the Week: The Nash Ensemble; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bach: Orchestral Suite No 3 in D, BWV1068.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, Mark Damazer.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Weber: Overtures - Berlin Philharmonic, Karajan, DG. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble
10.30am
In the week marking the 800th anniversary of the formal creation of the role of Chancellor of Oxford University, Sarah's guest is Mark Damazer CBE, Master of St Peter's College, Oxford, and former controller of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4 and Radio 7.
Previous to these posts, Mark had an extensive career in news and current affairs journalism working at ITN and at the Â鶹ԼÅÄ - in the World Service and on news programme such as Newsnight and the Nine O'Clock News. Later he was responsible for the Â鶹ԼÅÄ's news and current affairs journalism from Westminster, including Question Time, and Yesterday in Parliament, becoming Deputy Director of Â鶹ԼÅÄ News in 2001. He was made Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to broadcasting.
Mark is a Board Member of the V&A, and of the Centre of Contemporary British History. He currently writes columns for The London Evening Standard and The Guardian.
Mark suffers the misfortunes of Tottenham Hotspur and enjoys opera, gardening and Italian painting.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bach
Orchestral Suite No.3 in D major, BWV1068
Music Antiqua, Köln
Reinhard Goebel (director/violin).
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Music Played
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Giuseppe Verdi
Anvil Chorus (Il Trovatore) "Vedi! Le fosche notturne..."
Choir: Ambrosian Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- EMI.
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Anton Stepanovich Arensky
Concerto Waltz
Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.- Teldec.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No 3 in D major, BWV 1068
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- Archiv.
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Carl Maria von Weber
Overture to ‘Peter Schmoll’
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Ole Bull
Herd Girl’s Sunday
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- Warner Classics.
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Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA.
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Franz Schubert
Klavierstuck, D.946 No.2 Allegretto
Performer: Imogen Cooper.- Ottavo.
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Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata
Performer: Philippa Davies. Performer: Ian Brown.- Hyperion.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Cypress No. 2
Ensemble: Panochovo kvarteto.- Supraphon.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 5 in C major, Op 39
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- Elgar: Pomp and circumstance marches: Philharmonia Orchestra/Barbirolli.
- EMI.
- 5.
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Percy Grainger
Over The Hills and Far Away
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- CHANDOS.
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Ferdinand Hérold
Clog Dance (La Fille mal gardee, Act I No.17a)
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: John Lanchbery. Music Arranger: John Lanchbery.- Decca.
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Franz Liszt
Rigoletto: concert paraphrase
Performer: Jorge Bolet.- Decca.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in F minor, Op.80
Ensemble: Melos Quartett.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)
Orchestra: Concerto Köln. Director: Werner Ehrhardt.- Archiv.
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Carl Nielsen
Symphony no.3, Op.27 'Sinfonia espansiva' - IV Finale: Allegro
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Decca.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Where am I?
Rome.
Broadcast
- Thu 19 Jun 2014 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3