Friday - Sarah Walker with John Humphrys
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Beethoven's Bagatelles; Artist of the Week: Pierre Boulez; Sarah's Essential Choice: Elgar: Pomp and Circumstance Marches.
Sarah Walker with her guest, journalist and broadcaster John Humphrys.
9am
A selection of music including Sarah's Essential CD of the Week: Beethoven's Bagatelles performed by Scottish pianist Steven Osborne.
9.30am
Find the Fourth
Take part in today's music-related challenge: hear three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth piece.
Artist of the Week: Pierre Boulez
Throughout the week we explore recordings of the influential French composer and conductor. Sarah showcases his interpretations of 20th-century masters Ravel, Stravinsky, Liszt and Debussy.
10.30am
Sarah is joined by John Humphrys, who shares a selection of his favourite classical music. Currently presenter of ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Two's Mastermind and ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4's flagship news and current affairs programme Today, John is known as a tenacious and forthright interviewer. He talks to Sarah about his award-winning career as a journalist and broadcaster as well as the role classical music has played in his life.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance Marches
New Philharmonia Orchestras
Sir John Barbirolli (conductor).
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Music Played
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George Frideric Handel
Alessandro - Overture and Opening Scene
Ensemble: Armonia Atenea. Conductor: George Petrou. Singer: Max Emanuel CenΔiΔ.- DECCA.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance Marches Nos 2-5
Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- EMI.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
11 Bagatelles Op 119: Nos 1-3 - (G minor Allegretto, C major Andante con moto, D major Γ l'Allemande)
Performer: Steven Osborne.- HYPERION.
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George Gershwin
An American in Paris
Conductor: Leonard Bernstein. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Maurice Ravel
Piano Concerto in G
Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.- DG.
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Max Bruch
Romance for viola and orchestra Op.85
Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Reynaldo Hahn
Romance in A major
Performer: Charles Sewart. Performer: Stephen Coombs.- Reynaldo Hahn: Chamber Music: Room-Music.
- Helios.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 104
Conductor: Pierre Boulez. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra.- VIENNA PHILHARMONIC.
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Mattinata
Performer: Alexander Markovich. Performer: Sergei Nakariakov.- WARNER CLASSICS.
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Dmitri Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2 in F major, Op. 102 - II. Andante
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Performer: Martin Helmchen.- LPO.
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Turlough O'Carolan
Planxty Irwin
Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Andrew LawrenceβKing.- ALIA VOX.
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Franz Schubert
Die Post (Winterreise)
Singer: Jonas Kaufmann. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.- Schubert Winterreise.
- SONY CLASSICAL.
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique, Op.3
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
Musical Challenge - Find the Fourth
The music we heard:
Gershwin: Summertime
Beethoven: Violin Sonata in F Op.24 'Spring'
Vivaldi: Concerto ion F Op.8 No.3 RV293 'L'autunno'
The connection is the Seasons
So the missing fourth connection is winter
Broadcast
- Fri 19 Sep 2014 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3
Our Classical Century
Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.
Time Travellers: the podcast
Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.
