Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Jonathan Freedland
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Wind Instruments; Vintage Proms 1915; Artist of the Week: pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, featured in Schubert's Sonata in C minor, D958.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... wind instruments'. From the rude sound of the rackett and crumhorn to the acrobatic bassett horn and the sweet tones of a pair of recorders, Sarah showcases several species of early woodwind. Featuring music by Susato, Pleyel, Bach, Rhaw and Mendelssohn.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning journalist, author and broadcaster Jonathan Freedland. Jonathan started out as a reporter for The Washington Post, and for Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 4's 'Today' and 'Newsbeat' on Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 1. He's currently the executive editor of The Guardian's opinion section and writes a weekly column for the paper, as well as for The Jewish Chronicle and The New York Times. Besides his memoir 'Jacob's Gift', he has also penned a best-selling series of thrillers using the pseudonym Sam Bourne, and presents Radio 4's history series 'The Long View'. Jonathan will be discussing his career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah every day at 10am.
10.30am
During the Â鶹ԼÅÄ Proms 2015 Sarah and Rob present Vintage Proms 1915, looking at the Proms season from a century ago and playing music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week Sarah features music ranging from the Japanese National Anthem to Coleridge-Taylor's Petite Suite, and a first performance by Debussy.
11am
This week Sarah features recordings by one of the leading pianists of his generation, Leif Ove Andsnes, who brings his complete Beethoven Piano Concerto cycle with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra to the Proms this week. Sarah features the Norwegian pianist in concertos by Haydn and Grieg, chamber music by Schumann and solo works by Schubert and Janacek; works which capture the pianist's crisp and poetic playing.
Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D958
Leif Ove Andsnes (piano).
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Music Played
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Ignace Joseph Pleyel
Rondo for clarinet and basset horns, 'Presto assai'
Ensemble: Swiss Clarinet Players.- CLAVES.
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5 REASONS TO LOVE...EARLY WIND INSTRUMENTS
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Felix Mendelssohn
Konzertstück No 1 for clarinet, basset horn and orchestra, Op 113
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Württembergisches Kammerorchester Heilbronn. Conductor: Jörg Faerber.- EMI.
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Heitor Villaâ€Lobos
5 Preludes for Guitar (No.2 in E major & No. 3 in A minor)
Performer: Narciso Yepes.- DG.
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George Gershwin
Cuban Overture
Music Arranger: Gregory Stone. Ensemble: Piano Duo Genova & Dimitrov.- CPO.
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John Dowland
Fantasie, P1a
Performer: Paul O’Dette.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Peter Maxwell Davies
Mavis in Las Vegas
Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Peter Maxwell Davies.- NAXOS.
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Percy Grainger
Scotch Strathspey and Reel
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Country Gardiner Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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JONATHAN FREEDLAND'S CHOICE NO.1
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Trad. (Hebrew song)
Avinu Malkeinu
Director: Lester Seigel. Music Arranger: Lester Seigel. Choir: Sursum Corda.- MSR CLASSICS.
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JONATHAN FREEDLAND'S CHOICE NO.2
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Pierre Degeyter
Internationale
Ensemble: Red Banner Ensemble.- OLYMPIA.
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JONATHAN FREEDLAND'S CHOICE NO.3
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Henryk Mikołaj Górecki
Symphony No 3, 'Sorrowful Songs' (2nd mvt)
Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.- ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Andante cantabile
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Claude Debussy
Martyrdom of St. Sebastian – symphonic fragments
Conductor: Pierre Monteux. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- PHILIPS.
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Antoine Boësset
A la fin cette bergere
Director: Vincent Dumestre. Ensemble: Le Poème Harmonique.- Alpha.
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PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: LEIF OVE ANDSNES
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Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D.958
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.- EMI.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no. 102 (H.1.102) in B flat major, [complete]
Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra.- Haydn: The London Symphonies: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Davis.
- Philips.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No 1 in B flat major for keyboard, BWV 825: Gigue
Performer: Igor Levit.- Igor Levit: Bach - Partitas.
- Sony Classical.
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Relative Values
Answer: Grieg and Grainger were friends.
The music played:
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Grieg
Lyric Pieces, Op.71 No.3: PuckÌý
Stephen Hough (piano)
HYPERION
Grainger
I’m Seventeen Come Sunday
Monteverdi Choir
English Country Gardiner Orchestra
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
PHILIPS
Broadcast
- Tue 21 Jul 2015 09:00Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3