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Friday - Sarah Walker with Alec Baldwin

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love the Waltz and a music-related challenge.

9am
Sarah presents '5 Reasons to Love... the Waltz'. Throughout the week she enjoys its elegance and expressivity; its high-spirited flirtatiousness; its capacity to conjure up fairytale romance; the Viennese pride expressed in the waltzes of the Strauss family; and the way it can seem to spin out of control, revealing its darker side. Sarah shares waltzes by composers including Weber, Liszt, Johann Strauss II (arr. Webern), Chopin and Prokofiev.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge and identify the place associated with a work.

9.45am
Sarah's guest is the Hollywood actor Alec Baldwin. A star of the small screen as well as the silver screen, Alec is known for both his comic and dramatic roles, and has amassed a list of film and TV credits including 30 Rock, The Hunt for Red October and the latest film in the Mission: Impossible series: Rogue Nation. Alec is a passionate classical music fan, whose damascene moment was hearing Mahler's 9th Symphony conducted by Sir Georg Solti whilst driving his car in Los Angeles. Mahler is still his number one love and he even had a special 'Mahler clause' inserted into his contract when filming It's Complicated. Alec also presents concerts for the New York Philharmonic Orchestra - he's said "It's my favourite job that I've ever had." Alec will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music every day at 10am, including pieces by Sibelius, Rodrigo and Ravel, as well as works by the British composers Vaughan Williams and Frank Bridge.

1 hour, 15 minutes

Last on

New Year's Day 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    German Dance No 3 in C major, K 602

    Ensemble: Vienna Mozart Ensemble. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    La Cenerentola (Overture)

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

    Intermezzo in E flat major, Op 117 No 1

    Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • LONDON.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Capriccio in C major, Op 76 No 8

    Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • LONDON.
  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...THE WALTZ

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Cinderella's Arrival at the Ball; Grand Waltz (Cinderella)

      Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
      • DECCA.
  • Jonathan Dove

    In beauty may I walk

    Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • HYPERION.
  • Anton Stepanovich Arensky

    Concert Valse arr for trumpet and piano

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Performer: Alexander Markovich.
    • TELDEC.
  • ALEC BALDWIN'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Maurice Ravel

      Lever du jour (Daphnis et Chloe)

      Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de MontrΓ©al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
      • DECCA.
  • ALEC BALDWIN'S CHOICE NO.2

    • JoaquΓ­n Rodrigo

      Concierto de Aranjuez: 2nd movement

      Performer: Regino SΓ‘inz de la Maza. Orchestra: Orquesta Nacional de EspaΓ±a. Conductor: AtaΓΊlfo Argenta.
      • DOREMI.
  • ALEC BALDWIN'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Jean Sibelius

      Valse triste, Op 44 No 1

      Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
      • SONY.
  • Franz Schubert

    Fruhlingslied, D398

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Performer: Gerald Moore.
    • DG.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Vienna

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