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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Jeanette Winterson

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Purcell Ground Bass; Music in Time: Italian madigals; Artist of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin in Rossini's Sonata No 1 in F.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Purcell ground bass'. Throughout the week Sarah shares some favourite examples of Purcell ground bass, highlighting their hypnotic nature, innate expressivity and imaginative harmonies in works including Dido and Aeneas, Ode for St Cecilia's Day and Come Ye Sons of Art.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer Jeanette Winterson, whose semi-autobiographical 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' won the Whitbread Award for a first novel in 1985. Since then her writing has been praised for its startling originality in books about humanoid robots, witches, time travel, quantum physics, and above all the search for love. Her latest book is the first in a series of 'covers' of Shakespeare plays - a modern take on The Winter's Tale. Jeanette will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Handel, Gluck, Adams and Barber, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time as she sets out to explore how the Italian madrigal travelled to Renaissance England with O Rossignol by Monteverdi and Wilbey's Sweet Honey-sucking Bees.

11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. This esteemed wind quintet was formed in 1983 when five musicians, mostly principal players with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, decided to join forces. The group has since built up an international reputation, performing at some of the most prestigious venues in the world and collaborating with string players and pianists to widen their repertoire. Throughout the week Sarah showcases some favourites from their catalogue of recordings, with works by composers including Mozart, Spohr and Debussy.

Rossini
Sonata No.1 in F for wind quartet
Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Josquin des Prez

    El grillo

    Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (excerpts arranged for wind ensemble)

    Music Arranger: Joseph Heidenreich. Ensemble: Maurice Bourgue Wind Ensemble.
    • PIERRE VERANY.
  • Gerald Finzi

    Eclogue Op.10

    Performer: Peter Donohoe. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Howard Griffiths.
    • NAXOS.
  • 5 Reasons to Love... Purcell Ground Basses

    • Henry Purcell

      When I am laid in earth (Dido and Aeneas)

      Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Lewis.
      • DECCA.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in A major, Kk.208

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Edward Elgar

    Serenade in E minor for strings, Op 20

    Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • TELDEC.
  • Camille Saintâ€Saëns

    Le rouet d’Omphale, Op.31

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • DECCA.
  • Jeanette Winterson's Choice No. 1

    • John Adams

      Batter my heart (Doctor Atomic)

      Singer: Gerald Finley. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
      • CHANDOS.
  • Jeanette Winterson's Choice No. 2

    • George Frideric Handel

      Verdi prati (Alcina)

      Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly. Orchestra: The Symphony of Harmony and Invention. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
      • CORO.
  • Georges Bizet

    Jeux d'Enfants, Op. 22

    Performer: Brenda Lucas. Performer: John Ogdon.
    • EMI.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    O rossignol (Madrigals, Book 3)

    Choir: La Venexiana.
    • GLOSSA.
  • John Wilbye

    Sweet honey-sucking bees; Yet sweet, take heed

    Ensemble: The Consort of Musicke. Director: Anthony Rooley.
    • DECCA.
  • Frederick Delius

    Idylle de printemps

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.
  • Franz Schubert

    Three Piano Pieces D.946

    Performer: Gerhard Oppitz.
    • Schubert: Piano Sonata in G, D.894/ Three Pieces, D.946: Gerhard Oppitz.
    • Hanssler Classics.
  • Artists of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin

    • Gioachino Rossini

      Quartet No 1 in F major for wind instruments

      Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
      • SONY CLASSICAL.
    • Claude Debussy

      Sonata for flute, viola and harp

      Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
      • DG.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.83, 'The Hen'

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Sigiswald Kuijken.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.21 ‘Waldstein’: Movement III (conclusion)
Steven Osborne (piano)
HYPERION
Ìý
Saint-Saens
Symphony No.3 in C minor ‘Organ’: Maestoso – Allegro (conclusion)
James O’Donnell (organ)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Yannick Nezet-Seguin (conductor)
LPO

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