Friday - Sarah Walker with James Palumbo
With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love Ballet Music; Musical challenge: Relative Values; Artist of the Week: trumpeter Alison Balsom; Essential Choice: Stravinsky: The Firebird.
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
Relative Values
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
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
Stravinsky
Firebird (complete ballet)
Berlin Philharmonic
Bernard Haitink (conductor).
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Music Played
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Thomas Morley
Fyer, fyer!
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Director: John Rutter.- COLLEGIUM.
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5 Reasons to Love... ballet music
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Nutcracker: No. 14 Pas de deux
Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle. Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.- EMI.
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JeanβPhilippe Rameau
Dardanus Suite
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans BrΓΌggen.- PHILIPS.
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Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No. 1
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- EMI.
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Musical Challenge - Relative Values
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Sergei Ivanovich Taneyev
Twelve Choruses Op.27 - Stars
Choir: Netherlands Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: TΓ΅nu Kaljuste.- GLOBE.
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Musical Challenge - Relative Values
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Sarah's choice for James Palumbo
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Bedrich Smetana
Avlast - The Moldau
Conductor: George Szell. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra.- SONY.
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Frank Bridge
Two Poems β The Open Air
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Polonaise-Fantasy in A flat major
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Hyperion.
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Arvo PΓ€rt
Morning Star
Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- Hyperion.
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François Couperin
Pieces de clavecin - ordre no. 8, Gigue
Performer: Angela Hewitt.- Couperin: Keyboard Music 1: Angela Hewitt.
- Hyperion.
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Artist of the Week: Alison Balsom
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Henry Purcell
The Fairy Queen Z.629 β Suite of Musicks and Dances
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert. Performer: Alison Balsom.- EMI.
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Edward Elgar
Introduction and Allegro for strings, Op 47
Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.- Elgar/Vaughan Williams: English String Music: Barbirolli.
- EMI.
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Essential Choice
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird
Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Orchestra: BERLIN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA.- PHILIPS.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
Eight Concert Etudes - Nos. 5&6
Performer: Marc-AndrΓ© Hamelin.- Hyperion.
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George Frideric Handel
Birthday Ode for Queen Anne HWV74 βEternal source of light divineβ
Conductor: Trevor Pinnock. Ensemble: The English Concert. Singer: Iestyn Davies. Performer: Alison Balsom.- EMI.
Musical Challenge
Answer:
Bridge was Britten's teacher
The music played:
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Bridge
Cello Sonata: Movement I
Steven Doane (cello)
Barry Snyder (piano)
BRIDGEΜύΜύΜύ
Britten
Peter Grimes, Act III: Interlude V Evening (Moonlight)
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCAΜύ
Broadcast
- Fri 14 Nov 2014 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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.
