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Wednesday - 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; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Don Quixote.

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

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fauré: 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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Richard Strauss
Don Quixote
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Ulrich Koch (viola)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor).

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Music Played

  • John Dowland

    My Lady Hunsdon's Puffe

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Abduction from the Seraglio (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.

  • Gabriel Fauré

    Nocturne no. 6 in D flat major Op.63

    Performer: Kathryn Stott.
    • Hyperion.

  • György Ligeti

    Concert Romanesc

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.
    • Teldec.

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto Polonois in B flat for strings and basso continuo, TWV 43:B3

    Director: Martin Gester. Orchestra: Arte dei Suonatori.
    • BIS.

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Lads of Wamphray

    Singer: Andrew Morton. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Alexander Knight. Choir: Sydney Chamber Choir.
    • Chandos.

  • Ignace PLleyel

    Nocturne in C

    Performer: Ensemble Baroque de Limoges, Christophe Coin (conductor).

  • Benjamin Britten

    Variations on a Theme by Frank Bridge, op.10

    Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra.
    • Apex.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Missa Solemnis in D, op.123; Sanctus

    Singer: Alastair Miles. Singer: William Kendall. Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Performer: Elizabeth Wilcock. Singer: Catherine Robbin. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Charlotte Margiono.
    • Archiv.

  • Frédéric Chopin

    3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.2 in E flat major)

    Performer: Maria João Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Quixote

    Performer: Ulrich Koch. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • EMI.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Introduction, Theme and Variations for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Martin Frost (clarinet), Singapore Symphony Orchestra, Lan Shui (conductor).
    • BIS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle

How many soloists? Add up all the soloists in the 3 works and how many do you have altogether?

2 + 3 + 4 = 9


The music played:

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Mozart
3rd mvmt Presto of Sinfonia Concertante for violin and viola
Gidon Kremer (violin)
Kim Kashkashian (viola)
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
DG 413 461 2ÌýÌýÌý

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Beethoven
1st mvmtÌý Allegro of Triple Concerto in C op 56
Beaux Arts Trio
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Kurt Masur (conductor)
PHILIPS 438 005 2ÌýÌý

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Schumann
Finale of Konzertstuck for 4 horns and orchestra
Norbert Hauptmann, Manfred Klier, Christoph Kohler, Gerd Seifert (horns)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Klaus Tennstedt (conductor)
EMI CZS 569 692

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