Thursday - Sarah Walker with James Palumbo
With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love Ballet Music; Recording Rewind; Artist of the Week: trumpeter Alison Balsom; Sarah's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake (Act 4).
With Sarah Walker and her guest, the entrepreneur James Palumbo.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - ballet music'. Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for ballet music and dips into scores from some of the masters of the art form including Tchaikovsky, Rameau and Prokofiev.
9.30am
Recording Rewind
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah?s guest this week is the entrepreneur James Palumbo. James co-founded the Ministry of Sound nightclub in 1991. The business has since branched out into a number of areas, becoming a global brand and the largest independent record company in the world. James was recently made a life peer, taking the title Baron Palumbo of Southwark. James shares a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is the trumpeter Alison Balsom.
11am
Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Act IV
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor).
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Music Played
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Czech suite (Op.39), [complete]
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- Dvorak: Slavonic Dances etc.: RPO/Detroit SO/Dorati.
- Decca.
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Sergey Prokofiev
March in B flat major Op.99
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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5 Reasons to Love...ballet scores
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Sergey Prokofiev
Romeo & Juliet: Arrival of the Guests
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- LSO LIVE.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Romance in F minor Op.11
Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto in D Op. 6 No. 7
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert.- ARCHIV.
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Prelude and Toccata
Performer: Joanna Polk.- BRIDGE.
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Franz Strauss
Horn Concerto in C minor Op.8
Conductor: Sebastian Weigle. Orchestra: Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Samuel Seidenberg.- PAN CLASSICS.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Three Psalms Op.78 - 鈥楳ein Gott, warum hast du mich verlassen?'
Conductor: Richard Marlow. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge.- CHANDOS.
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James Palumbo's Choice No. 1
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Hector Berlioz
Romeo and Juliet: Romeo Seul
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- PHILIPS.
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James Palumbo's Choice No. 2
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Etudes, Book 2: XIII L'escalier du diable
Performer: Pierre鈥怢aurent Aimard.- SONY.
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Hector Berlioz
Reverie et caprice Op.8 for violin and orchestra
Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Performer: Giovanni Radivo. Orchestra: Orchestre national de Lyon.- Berlioz: Harold en Italie, Reverie et Caprice, Le Carnaval romain, Benvenuto Cel.
- NAXOS.
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Artist of the Week: Alison Balsom
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Astor Piazzolla
Caf茅 1930
Performer: Milo拧 Karadagli膰. Performer: Alison Balsom.- WARNER.
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Giuseppe Tartini
Concerto in D, D.53
Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble. Performer: Alison Balsom.- EMI.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in B flat major, D 935 No 3
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Schubert: Impromptus D 899 & D935: Perahia.
- Sony.
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Essential Choice
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Act IV
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- CHANDOS.
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John Sheppard
Te Deum laudamus for 6 voices [Och Mus. 979-83]
Choir: Stile Antico.- Media vita & other liturgical works.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Musical Challenge - Recording Rewind
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor: Movement I
Cho-Liang Lin (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
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