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Wednesday - 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: Paganini: Violin Concerto No 1.

The author Alexander McCall Smith is Sarah Walker's guest this week. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Back to the Beginning.

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
Paganini
Violin Concerto No. 1
Salvatore Accardo (violin)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    March (The Nutcracker Suite)

    Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic.
    • DG.

  • Robert Mackintosh

    Lady Emelia Ker's Minuet

    Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia.
    • DELPHIAN.

  • Emil Nikolaus von Reznicek

    Eine Lustspiel Overture

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • CPO.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D minor for 2 oboes, bassoon, strings & continuo, TWV53:d1

    Conductor: Michael Schneider. Orchestra: La Stagione Frankfurt.
    • CPO.

  • anon.

    Today's Brainteaser - Back to the Beginning

    Orchestra: anon..

  • Franz Schubert

    Du bist die Ruh D776 (arr. Liszt from op 59 no 3)

    Performer: Barry Douglas. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.
    • Chandos.

  • anon.

    Today's Brainteaser - Back to the Beginning

    Orchestra: anon..

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Adagio for cor anglais and strings in C, K580a

    Performer: Adrian Wilson. Performer: Ensemble 360.
    • ASV.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Night on Bald Mountain (Original Version)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • RCA.

  • Nino Rota

    Concerto soiree

    Orchestra: Filarmonica 900 Teatro Regio Torino. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Performer: Barry Douglas.
    • Chandos.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Blues (arr. Andrew Haveron)

    Performer: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Suite No 1 in G Major BWV 1007 for solo cello.

    Performer: Maurice Gendron.
    • Philips.

  • rombert

    Gaudeamus Igitur (The Student Prince)

    Conductor: Van Alexander. Choir: Members of the Roger Wagner Chorale.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bagatelle No.7 in C major

    Performer: Steven Osborne (piano).
    • HYPERION.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Trepak; The Field Marshal (Songs and Dances of Death arr. Breiner)

    Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Breiner. Music Arranger: Peter Breiner.
    • NAXOS.

  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    Violin Concerto no 1

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Salvatore Accardo. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • DG.

  • Darius Milhaud

    Duo Concertant Op.351

    Performer: Michael Collins (clarinet). Performer: Michael McHale (piano).
    • CHANDOS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Back to the Beginning

The music played:

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Mussorgsky
Night On Bald Mountain (Original Version)
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
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