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Monday - Sarah Walker with Simon Thurley

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Faure: The Complete Music for Piano; Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis; CD Review recommendation: Wagner: Siegfried Idyll.

Architectural historian Simon Thurley is Sarah Walker's guest this week

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Faur茅: The Complete Music for Piano - Kathryn Stott, HYPERION. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Andrew Davis.

10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the architectural historian and Chief Executive of English Heritage, Simon Thurley. Whilst working on his PhD, Simon took up a post as Inspector of Ancient Monuments for English Heritage, later becoming Curator of Historic Royal Palaces and then director of the Museum of London. He is a prolific history broadcaster, presenting television programmes such as Flying Through Time and Lost Buildings of Britain, as well as appearing on Time Team. Recent publications include Somerset House: The Palace of England's Queens 1551-1692, and Men from the Ministry: How Britain saved its Heritage. Simon's relative youth at taking the post of Chief Executive of English Heritage led him to be dubbed a "boy wonder", and he was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2011 Birthday Honours for services to conservation.

11am
Siegfried Idyll
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 14 Jul 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    'Nun ist das heil und die kraft', BWV 50

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Soli Deo Gloria.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Valse-caprice No 2 in D flat major, Op 38

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No 3

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Decca.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia V in 4 parts

    Performer: Fretwork.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • anon

    Transports of Delight

    Conductor: anon.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    L'Ascension; Transports de joie

    Performer: Olivier Latry (organ of Notre-Dame de Pairs).
    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dances in A and D, op.46 nos 5 and 6

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • CBS.

  • anon

    Transports of Delight

    Conductor: anon.

  • Robert Schumann

    Toccata in C major Op.7

    Performer: Ivo Pogorelich.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Olivier Messiaen

    O sacrum convivium

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Director: Richard Marlow.
    • Conifer.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Sinfonietta

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Finlandia.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Menuets dans le gout de la viele (Platee)

    Performer: Pierre Hantai & Skip Sempe (harpsichords).
    • MIRARE.

  • Henry Purcell

    March; Thou knowest, Lord; Canzona (Funeral Music for Queen Mary)

    Ensemble: Taverner Consort. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.
    • Virgin.

  • John Stainer

    The Crucifixion; Processional to Calvary / 'Fling wide the gates'

    Conductor: George Guest. Singer: Richard Lewis. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Brian Runnett.
    • Decca.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les Sauvages

    Performer: Pierre Hantai & Skip Sempe (harpsichords).
    • MIRARE.

  • Richard Wagner

    Siegfried Idyll

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Audite.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in B minor, BWV 869

    Performer: Angela Hewitt (piano).
    • HYPERION CDA67741/4.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony no.4; 4th mvt

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel (conductor).

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in B flat, Hob 15:20

    Performer: Beaux Arts Trio.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Transports of Delight

Transports of Joy.

听

The music played:

听

Messiaen
L'Ascension: 3. Transports de joie听
Olivier Latry (organ of Notre-D芒me de Paris )
DG 471 480-2

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