Friday - 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: Stravinsky: Petrushka.
Architectural historian Simon Thurley is Sarah Walker's guest this week
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: FaurΓ©: 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
Stravinsky
Petrushka
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor).
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Music Played
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Josef Lanner
Malapou-Galopp, op.148a
Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Sony.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D, RV 95 ('La pastorella')
Performer: Collegium Pro Musica.- Brilliant Classics.
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Gabriel FaurΓ©
Trois romances sans paroles, op.17
Performer: Kathryn Stott.- Hyperion.
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Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
Choir: Toronto Mendelssohn Choir. Orchestra: Toronto Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- CBS.
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Only Connect
Conductor: anon. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in D, K155
Performer: Talich Quartet.- Calliope.
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Maurice Ravel
Gaspard de la nuit; Scarbo
Performer: PierreβLaurent Aimard.- Warner.
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George Frideric Handel
Diana cacciatrice (Alla caccia), HWV 79; Aria: 'Foriera la tromba'
Singer: Roberta Invernizzi. Performer: Luca Marzana. Orchestra: La Risonanza. Director: Fabio Bonizzoni.- Glossa.
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Edward Elgar
In the South (Alassio), op.50
Conductor: Andrew Davis. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Signum.
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Arensky
Concert Waltz
Performer: Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet). Performer: Alexander Markovich (piano). -
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Orphee et Eurydice; Act 3, scene 1
Conductor: Marc Minkowski. Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Singer: Richard Croft. Singer: Mireille Delunsch.- Archiv.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 531
Performer: Ton Koopman, organ of the Grote Kerk, Maassluis. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Petrushka
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Leslie Howard. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Johannes Brahms
Gesang der Parzen, op.89
Choir: Berlin Radio Choir. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Gustav Holst
A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was Hunts.
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The music played:
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Berlioz
Royal Hunt & Storm, fromΜύ Les Troyens
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
SONY SBK 53255Μύ
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Mozart
βHuntβ Quartet in B flat K458
Emerson String Quartet
DG 427 657 2ΜύΜύ
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Franck
Symphonic poem : Le chasseur maudit
Philadelphia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMINENCE CD EMX 2236
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