Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Shami Chakrabarti
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Verdi Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music; Imperfect Harmony; Artists of the Week: Hagen Quartet; Shami Chakrabarti; Schumann: Violin Concerto.
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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic Orchestra.
9.30am
Imperfect Harmony
Take part in our daily musical challenge: Take part in our daily musical challenge: Two pieces of music altered in some way. What are the pieces?
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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Schumann
Violin Concerto
Thomas Zehetmair (violin)
Philharmonia
Christoph Eschenbach (conductor)
TELDEC.
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Music Played
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George Butterworth
Banks of Green Willow
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude No.1 in C BWV846
Performer: Glenn Gould.- SONY.
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George Frideric Handel
King Arthur - Suite (Come if you dare)
Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The English Concert.- EMI.
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Robert Schumann
Von fremden Landern und Menschen
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to 'Stiffelio'
Orchestra: Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Downes.- CHANDOS CHAN.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata representativa (Musketier-Marsch)
Performer: Andrew Manze. Performer: Nigel North. Performer: John Toll.- Biber: Violin Sonatas: Romanesca.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Opachi boschetti BuxWV.121 (Gigue)
Orchestra: Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra.- CHALLENGE CLASSICS.
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Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto
Conductor: Christoph Eschenbach. Performer: Thomas Zehetmair. Orchestra: Philharmonia.- TELDEC.
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Franz Schubert
Quartet for Strings No. 10 in E flat major, D.87/Op. 125 No. 1
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in G major, K 80
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine Kleine Nachtmusik
- DG.
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Anders Koppel
Concerto for Aluphone - excerpt
Orchestra: Odense Symfoniorkester. Performer: Evelyn Glennie. Conductor: Marc Soustrot. -
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Tu es Petrus
Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O’Donnell.- The Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey: Quinney/O'Donnell.
- Hyperion.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Tumblers - The Snow Maiden
Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.- Pentatone.
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Jean Sibelius
Andante Festivo
Conductor: Neeme Järvi. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra.- BIS.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Flute Concerto in D major, RV 431a, 'Il gran mogol'
Performer: Katy Bircher. Orchestra: La Serenissima. Director: Adrian Chandler.- AVIE.
Broadcast
- Tue 23 Sep 2014 09:00Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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.