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Monday - Sarah Walker with Helen Lederer

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Transcriptions; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Valery Gergiev, featured conducting Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... transcriptions'. Throughout the week Sarah explores the transformative effect of seeing one composer's work through the eyes of another, showcasing transcriptions including Bach by Busoni, Schubert by Liszt and Strauss II by Schoenberg.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the comedian, actress and writer Helen Lederer. Helen is a familiar face on the British comedy scene and is well known for her stand-up shows as well as for her role as Catriona in the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous. She recently released her first novel, Losing It, which has been shortlisted for the Edinburgh First Book Award. Helen will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at 10am.

10.30am
During the 麻豆约拍 Proms 2015, Sarah takes a look at the Proms season from a century ago and plays music that reflects a time when concert programmes were quite different from those of today. This week's line-up includes the French national anthem and two works so popular that they appeared more than once in the season: Mendelssohn's overture Ruy Blas and Rachmaninov's Piano Concerto No 2.

11am
Sarah's artist of the week - in the week of his 麻豆约拍 Proms appearance - is the boundlessly energetic Valery Gergiev, Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra and Music Director of the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg. Throughout the week Sarah will be sharing recordings of his interpretations of works by composers including Berlioz, Mahler and Tchaikovsky.

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op 14
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor.

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Mon 27 Jul 2015 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    'Giovinette, che fate all'amore' (Don Giovanni)

    Ensemble: Netherlands Wind Ensemble.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Gustav Holst

    A Fugal Overture, Op 40 No 1

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...TRANSCRIPTIONS

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto in G major after Vivaldi, BWV 973

      Performer: Richard Egarr.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Poema autunnale

    Performer: Julia Fischer. Orchestra: Monte-Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yakov Kreizberg.
    • DECCA.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: VALERY GERGIEV

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      The Maid of Pskov (Overture)

      Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Robert Parsons

    Libera me Domine

    Ensemble: Contrapunctus. Director: Owen Rees.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Zais: Overture

    Performer: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.

  • HELEN LEDERER'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      'La ci darem la mano' (Don Giovanni)

      Singer: Hilde G眉den. Singer: Cesare Siepi. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Josef Krips.
      • DECCA.

  • HELEN LEDERER'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      Molto vivace (Symphony No.9 鈥楩rom the New World鈥�)

      Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
      • DG.

  • HELEN LEDERER'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Requiem: In Paradisum

      Performer: Stephen Cleobury. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: George Guest.
      • DECCA.

  • Massimiliano Neri

    Sonata a 6

    Performer: Ensemble Ventosum.

  • Claude鈥怞oseph Rouget de l鈥橧sle

    La Marseillaise

    Music Arranger: Hector Berlioz. Singer: Pl谩cido Domingo. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim. Choir: Choeur de l'Orchestre de Paris. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie.
    • DG.

  • Pierre Boulez

    M茅moriale (...explosante-fixe...originel)

    Performer: Sophie Cherrier. Ensemble: Soloists of Ensemble Intercomtemporain. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No.30 in E, Op.109

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • BIS.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: VALERY GERGIEV

    • Hector Berlioz

      Symphonie fantastique, Op 14

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
      • LSO LIVE.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Hell

The music played:

Rameau
Trio of the Fates from Act 2 of Hippolyte et Aricie
Nathan Berg (bass)
Christopher Josey (tenor)
Matthieu L茅croart (baritone)
Bertrand Bontoux (bass)
Les Arts Florrissants
William Christie (conductor)
ERATO

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  • Mon 27 Jul 2015 09:00
    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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