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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Philip Treacy

With Rob Cowan. Including Five Reasons to Love Spanish Guitar Music; Music in Time: Haydn: Piano Sonata in G; Artist of the Week: Georg Solti in Brahms's Haydn Variations.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Spanish guitar music'. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the vitality, virtuosity and earthy passion of Spanish guitar music in works by composers including Rodrigo, Alb茅niz and Granados.

9.30am
Take part in our daily music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the world-famous milliner Philip Treacy. Philip is the designer of choice for celebrities, fashion houses and royalty, and his clients range from Lady Gaga to the Duchess of Cambridge. The first milliner to have his own show during Paris couture week, Philip has collaborated with top designers including Alexander McQueen, Karl Lagerfeld and Valentino. Every day at 10am Philip shares a selection of his favourite classical music by composers ranging from Mozart to Sondheim, and tells some of the stories behind his creations, including a visit to Elizabeth Taylor's hotel room, designing a hat for Danielle de Niese's trip to Ascot and working on the Harry Potter films.

10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time. She takes a trip to the Classical period to investigate Haydn's use of double variation form in his Piano Sonata in G Hob. XVI:40.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the conductor Georg Solti. A maestro with a remarkably broad repertoire, Solti had his early career in Hungary interrupted when he was forced to flee the Nazis in 1938. Known for his passionate, even aggressive rehearsal style, Solti went on to have a dazzling life on the classical stage, earned a starry reputation in the opera house and left behind a wealth of recordings, including an iconic interpretation of Wagner's Ring Cycle.

Brahms
Haydn Variations
Sir Georg Solti (piano)
Murray Perahia (piano).

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Music Played

  • Frank Bridge

    The Dew Fairy (The Hour Glass)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 16.

  • Engelbert Humperdinck

    Hansel Und Gretel (Overture)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...SPANISH GUITAR MUSIC

    • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

      Caccia a la espa帽ola (Concierto madrigal)

      Performer: Narciso Yepes. Performer: Godelieve Monden. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Luis Antonio Garc铆a Navarro.
      • DG.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 362, 'La caccia'

    Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin.

  • Florence Price

    Tropical Noon (Dances in the Canebrakes)

    Performer: Althea Waites.
    • Black Diamonds.
    • Cambria.
    • 005.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Indian Queen (Trumpet Overture)

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE.

  • Teresa Carre帽o

    Highland, Op 38 (Souvenir de l'Ecosse)

    Performer: Alexandra Oehler.
    • Teresa Carreno: Klavierwerke (Piano works).
    • ARS MUSICI.
    • 011.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Three Wonders (The Tale of Tsar Saltan Suite, Op 57)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Sh茅h茅razade, ouverture de f茅erie

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.

  • PHILIP TREACY'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Patrick Doyle

      Potter Waltz (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Shearman.
      • WARNER.

  • PHILIP TREACY'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Exsultate, jubilate, K 165

      Singer: Danielle de Niese. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
      • DECCA.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL

    • Joseph Haydn

      Piano Sonata in G major, Hob.XVI:40

      Performer: Alfred Brendel.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Romance in F minor, Op.11

    Performer: Josef Suk. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel An膷erl.
    • FIDELIO.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in F minor, Op.68 No.4

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • London.

  • Gustav Holst

    Nocturne (A Moorside Suite)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Imogen Holst.
    • Lyrita.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GEORG SOLTI

    • Johannes Brahms

      Variations on a theme by Haydn, Op.56

      Performer: Georg Solti. Performer: Murray Perahia.
      • CBS.

  • Franz Waxman

    Love Song

    Performer: Marc Verter. Singer: Julia Kogan.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prince Rostislav

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Owain Arwel Hughes.
    • BIS.

  • George Gershwin

    Somebody Loves Me

    Performer: Richard Rodney Bennett.
    • CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: GEORG SOLTI

    • Edward Elgar

      Pomp and Circumstance March No.5 in C major

      Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.
      • DECCA.

Mystery Person

Answer: Scheherazade聽

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  • Wed 11 Nov 2015 09:00
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