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Tuesday - 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: Dvorak: Slavonic Dances, Op 72.'.

The author Alexander McCall Smith is Sarah Walker's guest this week. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Originally Written For.

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
Dvorak
Slavonic Dances, Op. 72
Katia & Marielle Labeque (piano duo).

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Music Played

  • JoaquΓ­n Rodrigo

    Danza de las Hachas (Fantasia para un gentilhombre)

    Conductor: Rafael FrΓΌhbeck de Burgos. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Performer: Narciso Yepes.
    • FORLANE.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Stenka Razin, Op.13

    Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov. Orchestra: The UK Symphony Orchestra.
    • MELODIYA.

  • Robert Mackintosh

    Reels for Lady Helenora ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ; Miss Jessy Dairymple; Miss Stewart; MIss Carre

    Performer: Concerto Caledonia.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Chorus of the Scottish refugees "Patria oppressa" (Macbeth)

    Choir: Chicago Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • DECCA.

  • Anon.

    Today's Brainteaser - Originally Written For...?

  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performer: Christine Pendrill. Performer: Maurice Murphy. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • EMI.

  • Claude Debussy

    Menuet; Ballet (Petite Suite)

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard. Performer: Michel BΓ©roff.
    • EMI.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite No 2 for small orchestra

    Ensemble: Ensemble intercontemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

  • Johannes Brahms

    2 Rhapsodies Op.79 (no.1 in B minor)

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Rhapsody in G minor, Op.79 No.2

    Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Ballet des sylphes; (Damnation of Faust)

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • SBK53255.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • 6.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Prelude - "O Lola..." (Cavalleria Rusticana)

    Conductor: James Levine. Singer: PlΓ‘cido Domingo. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • RCA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Soave sia il vento (Così fan tutte)

    Singer: Elisabeth Schwarzkopf. Singer: Nan Merriman. Singer: Sesto Bruscantini. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • EMI.

  • Frank Bridge

    Norse Legend

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

  • AntonΓ­n DvoΕ™Γ‘k

    Slavonic Dances, Op.72

    Performer: Katia & Marielle Labèque.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Dmitri Kabalevsky

    Suite - The Comedians

    Orchestra: Armenian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Loris Tjeknavorian.
    • ASV.

  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Madronos

    Performer: John Williams.

  • Federico Moreno Torroba

    Madronos

    Performer: John Williams.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Originally Written For

Piano Duet.


The music played:

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Debussy arr. Henri BΓΌsser
Petite Suite – 1st movement: En bateau
Ulster Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN8756

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