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Friday - Sarah Walker with Jeanette Winterson

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Purcell Ground Bass; Music in Time: Berlioz: Benvenuto Cellini Overture; Artist of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin in Mozart's Trio.

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 music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.

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. Berlioz is for many the epitome of the Romantic composer. Sarah presents his Overture: Benvenuto Cellini, with its new techniques of colourful orchestration and demand for virtuoso panache from all its players.

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.

Mozart
Trio for clarinet, viola and piano K.498 'Kegelstatt'
Ensemble Wien-Berlin
James Levine (piano).

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Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Sound the trumpet (Come ye sons of art)

    Singer: Charles Brett. Singer: John Williams. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • ERATO.

  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Piano Sonata No.8 in C minor, Op.13, 'Pathetique'

    Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
    • EMI.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...PURCELL GROUND BASSES

    • Henry Purcell

      Wondrous machine (Hail! Bright Cecilia)

      Singer: Peter Harvey. Orchestra: Collegium Vocale Orchestra. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Trumpet Concerto in D major

    Music Arranger: John Wallace. Music Arranger: Simon Wright. Performer: Alison Balsom. Ensemble: Scottish Ensemble.
    • EMI.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Oceanides, Op.73

    Orchestra: Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Jukka‐Pekka Saraste.
    • RCA.

  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Study in E major, Op 10 No 3

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.

  • JEANETTE WINTERSON'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Prelude (Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV1007)

      Performer: Natalie Clein.

  • JEANETTE WINTERSON'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Ernest Bloch

      Prayer (From Jewish Life)

      Performer: Natalie Clein. Music Arranger: Christopher Palmer. Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
      • HYPERION.

  • JEANETTE WINTERSON'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Maurice Ravel

      La vallΓ©e des cloches (Miroirs)

      Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
      • EMI.

  • Thomas Tallis

    Absterge Domine (Cantiones Sacrae, 1575)

    Choir: Alamire. Director: David Skinner.
    • OBSIDIAN.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Hector Berlioz

      Benvenuto Cellini (Overture)

      Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
      • TELARC.

  • Amy Beach

    From Blackbird Hills Op.83

    Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
    • GUILD.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Organ Sonata No 1 in E flat major, BWV 525

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Bach Six Trio Sonatas, BWV525-530.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ENSEMBLE WIEN-BERLIN

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Trio in E flat major, K 498, 'Kegelstatt'

      Performer: James Levine. Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
      • DG.

  • John Dowland

    The Shoemaker's Wife

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Dowland: Musicke for the Lute.
    • Astree.
    • 1.

  • Richard Strauss

    Also sprach Zarathustra, Op 30

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.

Classical Roots

Answer: 'No Other Love' is based on Chopin's Etude in E major, Op.10 No.3

Russell/Weston
No Other Love
Jo Stafford (singer)
Paul Weston and his Orchestra
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  • Fri 23 Oct 2015 09:00
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