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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Victoria Glendinning

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles - The Sweetheart Soprano; Brainteaser; Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer; Author Victoria Glendinning.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist, Victoria Glendinning.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles The Sweetheart Soprano REGIS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer

10:30
She has written biographies of personalities such as Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Trollope and Sir Stamford Raffles, which have been praised for their sensitive approach emphasizing the importance of romantic and family relationships, as opposed to larger historical forces. She has also written three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight. Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, Victoria was awarded a CBE in 1998.

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Tue 26 Aug 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Madamina, il catalogo 猫 questo (Don Giovanni)

    Ensemble: Budapester Bl盲serensemble.

  • Carl Nielsen

    Overture: Maskarade

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Decca.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Absence (from Les nuits d聮茅t茅)

    Conductor: Charles Munch. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • Alto.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Concerto in F, Hob XVIII:7

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • Virgin.

  • anon

    Who's Singing?

    Singer: anon.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Slavonic Dance in D major Op.46 no.6

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Franz Berwald

    Estrella de Soria (Overture)

    Orchestra: Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Roy Goodman.
    • Hyperion.

  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Jota

    Performer: Narciso Yepes.
    • DG.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Hary Janos Suite

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Sweelinck

    Unter der Linden grune

    Performer: Robert Woolley (virginal).
    • CHANDOS.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in C major, Op.10 no.1

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Let us sleep now (War Requiem)

    Singer: Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya. Singer: Peter Pears. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Choir: Highgate School Choir. Choir: Bach Choir. Choir: London Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
    • Decca.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez (1st mvt)

    Performer: John Williams. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
    • Sony.

  • Erik Satie

    Valse - Ballet

    Performer: Pascal Roge (piano).
    • DECCA.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who's Singing?

The person singing was the 'Italian Singer' from Richard Strauss' opera, Der Rosenkavalier.


The music played:

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R Strauss
Di rigori armato il seno (Der Rosenkavalier, Act I)
Nicolai Gedda (tenor)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)
EMI 5667605-2
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Broadcast

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    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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