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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Helen Lederer

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Transcriptions; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Valery Gergiev, featured conducting Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition.

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: identify a piece of music played backwards.

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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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 Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ 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.

Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition
Mariinsky Orchestra
Valery Gergiev, conductor.

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Thu 30 Jul 2015 09:00
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Γ‰tude-tableau No 6 in A minor, Op 39

    Performer: Alexander Melnikov.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • 5 Reasons to love... Transcriptions

    • Luciano Berio

      Quattro versioni originale della ritirata notturna di Madrid di Luigi Boccherini

      Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
      • DECCA.

  • Jacquet of Mantua

    Agnus Dei (Missa Surge Petre)

    Choir: Brabant Ensemble. Conductor: Stephen Rice.
    • HYPERION.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in F, Hob.XV No.17

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Proms Artist of the Week: Valery Gergiev

    • Johannes Brahms

      Tragic Overture, Op.81

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

  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    Caprice in E major, Op 1 No 1; Caprice in E minor, Op 1 No 3

    Performer: Julia Fischer.
    • DECCA.

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin Op.15`2

    Orchestra: HallΓ©. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Helen Lederer's Choice No. 1

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      IV. ''Ode to Joy' (Symphony No.9 in D minor) (excerpt)

      Singer: Charlotte Margiono. Singer: Birgit Remmert. Singer: Rudolf Schasching. Singer: Robert Holl. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor.
      • TELDEC.

  • Helen Lederer's Choice No. 2

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Brandenburg Concerto No.2, BWV1047

      Performer: Kati Debretzeni. Performer: Rachel Beckett. Performer: Michael Niesemann. Performer: Neil Brough. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Orchestra: Dallas Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • HYPERION.

  • Proms Artist of the Week: Valery Gergiev

    • Modest Mussorgsky

      Pictures at an Exhibition

      Orchestrator: Maurice Ravel. Orchestra: Mariinsky Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
      • MARIINSKY.

  • Kaija Saariaho

    Ballade

    Performer: Gloria Cheng.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Wo die Zitronen bluhen - waltz Op 364

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Elgar
Chanson de Matin, Op.15/2
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
WARNER

Broadcast

  • Thu 30 Jul 2015 09:00
    Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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