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Friday - Sarah Walker with Shami Chakrabarti

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Verdi Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music; Classical Consequences; The Hagen Quartet; Shami Chakrabarti; Schubert: Symphony No 9 (Great).

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
Classical Consequences
Take part in our daily musical challenge: What happened next...?

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
Schubert
Symphony No.9 'Great'
Budapest Symphony Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
CHANNEL CLASSICS.

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Fri 26 Sep 2014 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Ballet Music from 'Otello', Act III

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

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet No. 3 in D, Op. 18 No. 3

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • MYRIOS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata No.6 in A: 2nd mvt - Adagio

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Frank Braley.
    • Erato.

  • Louis Couperin

    Suite in F major compiled Hogwood (Branle de Basque)

    Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Louis Couperin: Suites For Harpsichord, Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
    • 7.

  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No. 9 'Great'

    Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Symphony Orchestra.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.

  • George Gershwin

    Variations on 'I got rhythm'

    Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Gershwin: Rhapsody in Blue & Piano Concerto: Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
    • 2.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces Book III Op.54: No.1 Butterfly (arr Miki)

    Performer: Mie Miki.
    • BIS.

  • Hugo Wolf

    Italian Serenade in G

    Performer: Hagen Quartett.
    • NEWTON CLASSICS.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 40 in E flat major, H XVI 25

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • Chandos.

  • Josef Myslivecek

    Concertino No. 2 in E flat for horns, flutes, clarinets, bassoon and strings

    Performer: Concerto KΓΆln.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Arvo PΓ€rt

    Spiegel im Spiegel

    Performer: Vadim Gluzman. Performer: Angela Yoffe.
    • BIS.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Il Signor Bruschino - Sinfonia

    Conductor: Christian Benda. Orchestra: Prague Chamber Orchestra.
    • NAXOS.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in A minor RV 356

    Music Arranger: Alison Balsom. Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI.

Today's Answer - Classical Consequences

One chilly Venice day in the winter of 1813, Rossini was at work on his opera Signor Bruschino. He’d just put the finishing touches to a duet when the manuscript slipped from his grasp and wafted to the floor. In an attempt to retrieve it he thrust his arm under the bed, but to no avail – it was out of reach. What happened next?

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Rather than getting out of the bed and retrieving the manuscript, he wrote it all out again... (Rossini was renowned for being rather lazy and for indulging his passion for fine food).

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