Thursday - 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: Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (exts).
The author Alexander McCall Smith is Sarah Walker's guest this week. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Who/What/Where am I?
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
Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Orchestra of the Royal Opera House
Mark Ermler (conductor).
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Music Played
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Josef Franz Wagner
Under the Double Eagle
Conductor: Erich Kunzel. Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra.- TELARC.
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Robert Mackintosh
Solo for violin and harpsichord
Performer: Concerto Caledonia.- DELPHIAN.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
1812 Overture
Performer: University of Minnesota Brass Band. Conductor: Antal Doráti. Orchestra: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata pian' e forte à 8
Ensemble: London Symphony Brass. Conductor: Eric Crees.- Collins Classics.
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Domenico Cimarosa
Il credulo (Overture)
Orchestra: Nicolaus Esterházy Sinfonia. Conductor: Alessandro Amoretti.- Naxos.
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Gabriel Fauré
Elegy op 24
Performer: Paul Tortelier. Performer: Jean Hubeau.- Erato.
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Georges Bizet
Carmen Suite no.2: Habanera
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- MLK44724.
- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Daniel François Esprit Auber
Overture: The Black Domino
Conductor: David Hurst. Performer: Black Dyke Band.- Chandos.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano sonata no 27 in E minor op 90
Performer: Barry Douglas.- RCA.
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Anton Bruckner
Ave Maria; Alleluja-Vers 'Virga Jesse'; Hymnus 'Vexilla regis'
Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Uwe Gronostay.- GLOBE.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto: 1st movement
Conductor: Jane Glover. Performer: Andrew Marriner. Orchestra: London Mozart Players.- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Gabriel Fauré
In Paradisum (Final mvmt of Requiem op 48)
Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.- EMI.
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Binge
Miss Melanie
Performer: Pro Arte Orchestra. Performer: George Weldon.- EMI.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Romeo and Juliet (excerpts)
Orchestra: Royal Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Mark Ermler.- ROYAL OPERA HOUSE.
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Claude Debussy
Pour le Piano
Performer: Barry Douglas.- RCA.
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AntonÃn Dvořák
Polonaise B.100
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who am I?
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