Monday - Sarah Walker with Alexander McCall Smith
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Robert Mackintosh Airs, Minuets, Gavotts and Reels; Proms Artist of the Week: Barry Douglas; Essential Choice: Copland: 4 Dance Episodes (Rodeo).
The author Alexander McCall Smith is Sarah Walker's guest this week. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Place that Piece.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Robert Mackintosh Airs, Minuets, Gavotts & Reels - Concerto Caledonia, DELPHIAN. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Barry Douglas.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the author Alexander McCall Smith, best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. His other book series include 44 Scotland Street and The Sunday Philosophy Club, while his most recent novel, The Forever Girl, was published earlier this year. He was appointed a CBE in 2006 for services to literature.
As well as being an acclaimed writer, Alexander is an expert on medical law and bioethics, and has served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee, the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the UK, and a former member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO.
He is also an amateur bassoonist, co-founder of The Really Terrible Orchestra, and helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies' Opera House.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Copland
Rodeo: Four Dance Episodes
New York Philharmonic
Leonard Bernstein (conductor).
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Music Played
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Robert Mackintosh
Lady Betty Boyle's Reel - Miss Scott's Reel
Performer: Concerto Caledonia.- DELPHIAN.
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John Ireland
Epic March
Conductor: Erich Kunzel. Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.- TELARC.
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Robert Mackintosh
Miss Baird's Minuet; Gavotta
Performer: Concerto Caledonia.- DELPHIAN.
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AntonΓn DvoΕ™Γ΅k
Romance in F minor, Op.11
Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Today's Brainteaser - Place that Piece
Orchestra: anon..- PHILIPS.
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Johannes Brahms
Ballade Op.118 No.3
Performer: Barry Douglas.- CHAN10757.
- CHANDOS.
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Giuseppe Verdi
"Se quell guerrier io fossi!" (Aida, Act I)
Singer: Carlo Bergonzi. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DECCA.
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John Sheppard
Libera nos, salva nos
Choir: Choir of St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh. Conductor: Duncan Ferguson. -
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Piano Concerto No.1 in B flat minor, Op.23
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Performer: Barry Douglas.- RCA.
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Giuseppe Verdi
"La donna e mobile" (Rigoletto)
Orchestra: Orchestra of La Scala, Milan. Singer: Beniamino Gigli. Conductor: Franco Ghione.- CONIFER.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3 in A minor, Op.56 'Scottish' - Finale
Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- ORFEO.
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Gruenfeld
Romanze op 45 no1
Performer: Philip Martin. -
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Aaron Copland
Rodeo, Four Dance Episodes
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 94 in G major, 'Surprise'
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Variations for piano trio (Op.44) in E flat major
Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.- Beethoven: The complete music for piano trio: Florestan Trio.
- Hyperion.
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Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece
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The music played:
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J Strauss II
Egyptian March op 335
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
(New Year’s Day Concert 1993)
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