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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Shami Chakrabarti

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Verdi Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music; Recording Rewind; Artists of the Week: The Hagen Quartet; Shami Chakrabarti; Allegri: Miserere.

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
Recording Rewind
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards

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
Allegri
Miserere
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO.

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Thu 25 Sep 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • Gregorio Allegri

    Miserere mei, Deus

    Performer: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
    • Coro.

  • anon

    Recording Rewind

  • Robert Schumann

    Abegg Variations Op.1

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cello Suite No 1 in G major (Prelude)

    Performer: Yo‐Yo Ma.
    • CBS.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Overture to 'Giovanna d'Arco'

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Downes.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor

    Performer: Shura Cherkassky.
    • WIGMORE HALL LIVE.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Dum complerentur

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Choir: The Sixteen.
    • Coro.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave Op.31

    Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de MontrΓ©al.
    • Decca.

  • Robert Schumann

    String Quartet in A, Op.41 No. 3

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Passacaille, Gigue and Menuet in G major........: 1st mvt; Passacaille

    Ensemble: Brook Street Band.
    • Avie.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: ÁdÑm Fischer.
    • NIMBUS.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a 5 for 2 oboes and strings (Op.9`12) in D major, 1st movement; Allegro

    Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat Mater

    Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Requiem (Sanctus)

    Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.
    • EMI.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Prague Carnival

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

  • Traditional

    Tarantella Italiana

    Ensemble: L’Arpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
    • La Tarantella: L'Arpeggiata/Christine Pluhar.
    • Alpha.
    • 13.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Flourish

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble.
    • CHANDOS.

Today's Answer - Recording Rewind

The music played:

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Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor ΜύΜύΜύ
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
WIGMORE HALL LIVE

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