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Thursday - 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 Beethoven's Piano Trio in C minor.

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 our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actress Siân Phillips. Siân 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, Siân 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. Siân 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 Pré and Mozart's Sonata in D major for 2 Pianos, K448, where Barenboim joins forces with Martha Argerich.

Beethoven
Piano Trio in C minor, Op.1 No.3
Pinchas Zukerman (violin)
Jacqueline du Pré (cello)
Daniel Barenboim (piano).

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Thu 20 Aug 2015 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Trad.

    Just as the tide was flowing

    Music Arranger: Ralph Vaughan Williams. Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...LES SIX

    • Geroges Auric

      Prelude

      Performer: Andrew West.
      • HYPERION.

    • Louis Durey

      Romance without words

      Performer: Andrew West.
      • HYPERION.

    • Arthur Honegger

      Sarabande

      Performer: Andrew West.
      • HYPERION.

    • Darius Milhaud

      Mazurka

      Performer: Andrew West.
      • HYPERION.

    • Francis Poulenc

      Valse

      Performer: Andrew West.
      • HYPERION.

    • Germaine Tailleferre

      Pastorale

      Performer: Andrew West.
      • HYPERION.

  • Clara Schumann

    Romance, Op 22 No 1

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Sebastian Knauer.
    • DG.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Hamburg Symphony No 4 in G major

    Orchestra: Haydn Sinfonietta Vienna. Conductor: Manfred Huss.
    • BIS.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Laudate Dominum Secondo (Selva morale e spirituale)

    Choir: Cantus Cölln. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Konrad Junghänel.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Storm (Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, Op.33a)

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • CHANDOS.

  • SIAN PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.1

    • Orlando Gibbons

      Hosanna to the Son of David

      Choir: Stile Antico.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • SIAN PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.2

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      On Wenlock Edge: Bredon Hill & Clun (concluding two songs from the cycle)

      Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Ensemble: Duke Quartet.
      • NAXOS.

  • Frederick Ouseley

    O Saviour of the World

    Conductor: John Scott. Choir: The Choir of St Paul's Cathedral.
    • HYPERION.

  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: DANIEL BARENBOIM

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Trio No.3 in C minor, Op.1

      Performer: Pinchas Zukerman. Performer: Jacqueline du Pré. Performer: Daniel Barenboim.
      • EMI.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Britten
Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes: Storm
London Symphony Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
DECCA

Broadcast

  • Thu 20 Aug 2015 09:00
    Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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