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Monday - Sarah Walker with AC Grayling

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: The Chamber Music of Malcolm Arnold; Artist of the Week: New York Philharmonic; Essential Choice: Mozart: Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail.

With Sarah Walker and her guest, the philosopher A.C. Grayling.

9am
A selection of music including Sarah's Essential CD of the Week: The Chamber Music of Malcolm Arnold performed by The Nash Ensemble.

9.30am
Mystery Place
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related place.

10.00am
Sarah is joined by philosopher and Master of the New College of the Humanities A.C. Grayling. He has written and edited over thirty books on philosophy and was chairman of this year's Man Booker Prize which was awarded last week.

10.30am
Artist of the Week
Throughout the week we explore recordings of The New York Philharmonic. Sarah showcases their interpretations of Bernstein, Schubert, Chausson, Brahms and Richard Strauss.

11am
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
Mozart
Die EntfΓΌhrung aus dem SeraΓ―l, K384.

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Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    12 Transcendental Studies, S139; No. 1 Preludio

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • TELDEC.

  • Artists of the Week: New York Philharmonic

    • Leonard Bernstein

      Candide (Overture)

      Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
      • SONY.

  • CD of the Week

    • Malcolm Arnold

      3 Shanties Op.4

      Performer: Nash Ensemble.
      • HYPERION RECORDS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Concerto in D for three violins, strings and continuo, BWV 1064

    Performer: Christopher Hirons. Performer: Monica Huggett. Performer: Catherine Mackintosh. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'OISEAU-LYRE.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker Op. 71; Act 2, No. 13, Waltz of the Flowers

    Conductor: Kurt Masur. Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
    • TELDEC.

  • Franz Schubert

    3 Klavierstucke, D946; No. 3 in C

    Performer: Maria JoΓ£o Pires.
    • DG.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Dum complerentur

    Conductor: Harry Christophers. Ensemble: The Sixteen.
    • CORO.

  • Edward Elgar

    'Pomp and Circumstance' March in D, Op. 39, No. 1

    Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: Sydney Symphony Orchestra.
    • EXTON.

  • AC Grayling's Choice No. 1

    • Giacomo Puccini

      Un bel dì vedremo (Madam Butterfly)

      Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Sir Edward Downes.
      • CONIFER.

  • AC Grayling's Choice No. 2

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No. 4 in B flat, Op. 60; 2nd movement

      Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Wilhelm Furtwängler.
      • NAXOS.

  • Artist of the Week

    • Leonard Bernstein

      Symphonic Dances from West Side Story

      Orchestra: New York Philharmonic.
      • SONY.

  • Pietro Locatelli

    Concerto Grosso no7 in Fmaj

  • Essential Choice - Building a Library recommendation

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Act 3 excerpts

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Die Entfuhrung aus dem Serail Act 3 excerpts

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Violin Concerto

    Performer: Patricia Kopatchinskaja.

  • Franz Liszt

    Transcendental Study no6 in Gmin 'Vision'

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.

Musical Challenge - Mystery Place

Answer:

Sydney Opera House

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