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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with William Boyd

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana; Proms Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti.

Sarah Walker's guest this week is the author William Boyd. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Who's Singing?

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti

10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the prize-winning African-born author and screenwriter William Boyd, whose novels include A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Any Human Heart and Solo - a new James Bond novel continuing the adventures of Ian Fleming's spy hero. His screenplays include Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin, recalling the glamous life of the famous silent-film star, and The Trench (which Boyd also directed), set 24 hours before the battle of the Somme, and an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.

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Tue 12 Aug 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    Gavotte pour les ZΓ©phirs (NaΓ―s)

    Performer: Jonathan Freeman-Attwood. Performer: Daniel-Ben Pienaar.
    • Linn.

  • Mikhail Mikhaylovich Ippolitov-Ivanov

    Caucasian Sketches: Suite No.1 No.4 β€˜Procession of the Sardar’

    Conductor: Sascha Goetzel. Orchestra: The Borusan Istanbul Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Onyx.

  • Franz Schubert

    Rondo in A major D.951

    Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DG.

  • Alfredo Casella

    Symphonic Fragments from β€˜La donna serpent’ Op.50 Sinfonia

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

  • Sweelinck

    Paduana Lachrymae, SwWV328/N10

    Performer: Robert Woolley (virginal).
    • CHACONNE.

  • anon

    Who’s Singing?

    Singer: anon.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Kirill Karabits.
    • Decca.

  • Leos JanÑček

    Pohadka (Fairy Tale): 3rd mvt

    Performer: Danjulo Ishizaka. Performer: Shai Wosner.
    • Onyx.

  • Giacomo Puccini

    La Rondine: Bevo al tuo fresco serriso

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Choir: London Voices. Singer: Roberto Alagna.
    • EMI.

  • Karol Szymanowski

    Violin Concerto No.1 Op.35

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Conductor: Daniel Harding.
    • DG.

  • Anon.

    Beata viscera

    Performer: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM.

  • Frederick Delius

    Summer Evening

    Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • EMI.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Violin Concerto Op.15: Moderato con moto

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo JΓ€rvi. Performer: Janine Jansen.
    • Decca.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Waltz No. 6

    Performer: Brodsky Quartet.
    • CHANDOS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who's Singing?

Magda de Civry, from Puccini's La Rondine, sung by RenΓ©e Fleming.

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RenΓ©e Fleming (soprano)

English Chamber Orchestra

Jeffrey Tate (conductor)

DECCA 458 8582

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