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Monday - Sarah Walker with Shami Chakrabarti

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Verdi Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music; Find the Fourth; Artists of the Week: The Hagen Quartet; Shami Chakrabarti; Handel: Orlando.

With Sarah Walker and her guest, human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti.

9am
A selection of music including Sarah's Essential CD of the Week: Verdi's Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music performed by the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic Orchestra.

9.30am
Find the Fourth
Take part in our daily musical challenge: spot the theme linking three pieces of music and identify the missing fourth.

Artists of the Week: The Hagen Quartet, an Austrian group long admired for their collaborative spirit, quality of sound and range of recordings. Sarah will showcase music ranging from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to Hugo Wolf.

10.30am
Sarah is joined by Shami Chakrabarti, who shares some of her favourite classical music. Director of the British advocacy organisation Liberty since 2003, Shami Chakrabarti is a leading human rights campaigner. She talks to Sarah about her career as well as the role classical music has played in her life.

11am
Handel
Orlando
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 22 Sep 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ballet Music from 'Il trovatore', Part III - Galop

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ballet Music from 'Macbeth', Act III

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Downes.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.

  • Edwin York Bowen

    Nocturne

    Performer: Joop Celis.
    • CHANDOS.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Variations on an Irish national air

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 12.

  • Claude Debussy

    Ballade slave

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet Op. 74 No. 3 in G minor

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

  • Charles Wood

    My God, I love Thee

    Director: Daniel Hyde. Choir: Jesus College Cambridge Choir. Singer: Ruth Jenkins.
    • NAXOS.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Requiem - Introitus

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Peter Schreier. Choir: Leipzig Radio Chorus.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Violin Concerto in B flat

    Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Swan Lake - Finale

    Conductor: Seiji Ozawa. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor Op. 16

    Orchestra: SimΓ³n BolΓ­var Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Yuja Wang. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • DG.

  • Tommaso Traetta

    Armida Overture

    Conductor: Pablo Heras‐Casado. Orchestra: Concerto KΓΆln.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Gabriel FaurΓ©

    Pavane

    Conductor: Sir David Willcocks. Performer: Gareth Morris. Orchestra: New Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI.

Broadcast

  • Mon 22 Sep 2014 09:00
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