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Thursday - Sarah Walker with John Bird

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love English Madrigals; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood; Sarah's Essential Choice: Kodaly: Dances of Galanta.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.

10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.

10.30am
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.

11am
This week's Essential Choices are all inspired by dance.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    English Folk Song Suite

    Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • 5 Reasons to Love... English Madrigals

    • John Dowland

      Fine Knacks for Ladies

      Performer: Anthony Rooley. Ensemble: The King’s Singers.
      • EMI.

  • Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood

    • Henry Purcell

      Sonata of 3 parts: No. 7 in E minor, Z.796

      Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
      • ³’’O±υ³§·‘΄‘±«-³’³ΫΈι·‘.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Menuet antique

    Performer: Jean‐Philippe Collard.
    • EMI.

  • Benjamin Britten

    The Plough Boy

    Performer: Allan Clayton. Performer: James Baillieu.
    • Heritage.

  • Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Nulla in mundo pax RV.630

      Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
      • ³’’O±υ³§·‘΄‘±«-³’³ΫΈι·‘.

  • Imogen Holst

    Phantasy Quartet

    Performer: Simon Hewitt Jones. Performer: David Worswick. Performer: Tom Hankey. Performer: Oliver Coates.
    • Court Lane Music.

  • John Bird's Choice No. 1

    • Franz Liszt

      Mephisto Waltz No 1

      Performer: John Ogdon.
      • John Ogdon Plays A Liszt Recital.
      • TESTAMENT.
      • 11.

  • John Bird's Choice No. 2

    • Benjamin Britten

      The Beggar’s Opera: My Heart Was So Free; Were I Laid on Greenland’s Coast

      Performer: Nicholas Ward. Author: John Gay. Singer: Tom Randle. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Singer: Leah-Marian Jones.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood

    • William Byrd

      My Ladye Nevells Book: The Galliarde to the Third Pavian

      Performer: Christopher Hogwood - Flemish Harpsichord.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Cello Concerto in D major

    Performer: Christophe Coin. Director: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • ³’’O±υ³§·‘΄‘±«-³’³ΫΈι·‘.

  • Essential Choice

    • ZoltΓ‘n KodΓ‘ly

      Dances of Galanta

      Conductor: IvΓ‘n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.
      • KODALY.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade melancolique

    Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Performer: Marina Gusak-Grin.
    • Chandos.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto in A, K 488 (3rd mvt)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.
    • AVIE.

Relative Values

The answer: father and daughter


The music played:


Holst
'Neptune, the Mystic' from the Planets op. 32
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Chorus
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
TELDEC

Μύ

Imogen Holst
'O sorrow' from Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
Tanya Houghton (harp)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross (conductor)
HARMONIA MUNDI

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