Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Sian Phillips
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Les Six; Musical challenge; Proms Artist of the Week: Daniel Barenboim, featured in Chopin's Three Nocturnes, Op 9.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Les Six'. Sarah takes a trip back to Paris during the Roaring Twenties as she presents her reasons to love this eccentric group of French composers. Les Six was made up of Milhaud, Poulenc, Honegger, Auric, Durey and Tailleferre. Throughout the week Sarah explores their avant-garde style, including the way they inject a sense of humour and a shock factor into their music, and showcases their collaborative efforts.
9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actress SiΓ’n Phillips. SiΓ’n started performing when she was just eleven years old and has enjoyed an acting career across stage and screen that has spanned over seventy years. Her film credits include Becket, Goodbye, Mr. Chips and Dune, though she is perhaps best known for her BAFTA-winning portrayal of Livia in the television series I, Claudius. Primarily a stage actress, SiΓ’n has also taken on singing roles including her one-woman show Marlene and Olivier Award-nominated performances in Pal Joey, A Little Night Music and Cabaret. SiΓ’n will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music with Sarah, every day at 10am.
10.30am
This week Sarah's featured Proms artist is the pianist and conductor Daniel Barenboim. Sarah focuses on Barenboim's pianistic side, with repertoire including Beethoven's 'Moonlight' Sonata, Liszt's Piano Concerto No. 2 and Three Nocturnes Op. 9 by Chopin. She also puts the spotlight on his collaborations with other artists including Beethoven's Piano Trio, Op. 1 No. 3 in C minor alongside Pinchas Zukerman and Jacqueline du PrΓ© and Mozart's Sonata in D major for 2 Pianos, K448, where Barenboim joins forces with Martha Argerich.
Chopin
Three Nocturnes, Op. 9
Daniel Barenboim (piano).
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Music Played
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Proms Artist of the Week: Daniel Barenboim
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Waltz in D flat 'Minute', Op.64 No.1
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in D minor RV.565, Op.3`11
Performer: Georg Kallweit. Performer: Elfa RΓΊn KristinsdΓ³ttir. Performer: JeanβGuihen Queyras. Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Director: Georg Kallweit.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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5 Reasons to love... Les Six
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Germaine Tailleferre
Concertino for harp and orchestra
Performer: Gillian Benet. Orchestra: Women's Philharmonic. Conductor: JoAnn Falletta.- KOCH.
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John Dowland
Sir John Smith, his Almain
Performer: Paul OβDette.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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AntonΓn DvoΕΓ‘k
Slavonic dances - series 1 Op.46 (no.8 in G minor)
Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- TELDEC.
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Charles Avison
Sonata in G major for harpsichord, violins and cello, Op 5 No 5
Performer: Gary Cooper. Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- DIVINE ART.
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GyΓΆrgy Ligeti
Poeme symphonique for 100 metronomes
Performer: Nicholas Collon.- WARNER.
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Sian Phillips' Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Partita No 1 in B flat major for keyboard, BWV 825
Performer: Dinu Lipatti.- EMI.
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Edward Elgar
Pomp and Circumstance March No 5 in C major, Op 39
Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- Elgar: Pomp and circumstance marches: Philharmonia Orchestra/Barbirolli.
- EMI.
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Proms Artist of the Week: Daniel Barenboim
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Three Nocturnes, Op 9
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
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Hamish MacCunn
Highland Memories
Orchestra: Royal Ballet Sinfonia. Conductor: John Wilson.- The Land of the Mountain and the Flood.
- ASV.
- 14-16.
Mystery Object
Answer: Metronome
Broadcast
- Wed 19 Aug 2015 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3