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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Gyles Brandreth

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Viola Pieces; Josquin: La deploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem; Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel. Beethoven: Piano Concerto No 5.

9am
My favourite... viola pieces. Viola player Cecil Aronowitz, who co-founded the Melos Ensemble and was a preferred extra with the Amadeus Quartet, was born one hundred years ago this week. To celebrate his anniversary Sarah chooses a selection of her favourite short pieces for Aronowitz's somewhat overlooked, even mocked, instrument, including works by Rebecca Clarke, Debussy, Strauss and Bach.

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

10am
Sarah's guest is Gyles Brandreth, the once MP and Government whip whose way with words makes him much in demand on television and radio, with appearances on everything from Countdown to Just a Minute. Gyles reminisces about meeting Yehudi Menuhin, and muses on the secrets of happiness and having fun, while choosing music by Liszt, Verdi, Janacek and Handel, every day at 10am.

10:30
Sarah places Music in Time, heading back to the Renaissance to hear Josquin's motet-chanson La d茅ploration sur la mort de Johannes Ockeghem. The motet-chanson was a specialised vocal form of the Renaissance, combining music from Latin sacred chant with secular French song.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the world renowned pianist Alfred Brendel whose performances of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Liszt set the benchmark for interpretations of intelligence and authority. Sarah's outings of his top recordings complement Friday's 麻豆约拍 4 documentary Perfect Pianists, a journey through 60 years of 麻豆约拍 archive that showcases some the greatest names in the history of the piano - including Brendel.

Beethoven
Piano Concerto No.5 'Emperor' in E flat Op.73
Alfred Brendel (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

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Music Played

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ALFRED BRENDEL

    • Robert Schumann

      Traumeswirren (Fantasiest眉cke, Op 12)

      Performer: Alfred Brendel.

  • Robert Schumann

    Fantasiest眉ck, Op 73 No 2

    Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Robert Kulek.
    • ORFEO.

  • Arnold Bax

    The Garden of Fand (a Symphonic Poem)

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • LYRITA.

  • MY FAVOURITE... VIOLA PIECES

    • Paul Hindemith

      Meditation: Sehr langsam (Nobilissima visione)

      Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Simon Crawford鈥怭hillips.
      • HYPERION.

  • Marcel Lanquetuit

    Toccata in D major

    Performer: Gillian Weir.
    • PRIORY.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Melody (Hungarian Sketches, Sz97)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.

  • Claude Debussy

    La cathedrale engloutie (Preludes, Book I)

    Performer: Monique Haas.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Benvenuto Cellini (Overture)

    Orchestra: Bastille Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Myung-Whun Chung.
    • DG.

  • GYLES BRANDRETH'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in E flat major Op.33`2 'Joke' (1st mvt)

      Ensemble: Casals Quartet.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • GYLES BRANDRETH'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Leos Jan谩膷ek

      IV. Allegro (String Quartet No.2, 鈥業ntimate Letters鈥�)

      Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
      • SUPRAPHON.

  • Anthony Holborne

    The Honie-suckle

    Performer: Ronald Romm. Performer: Frederic Mills. Performer: David Ohanian. Performer: Eugene Watts. Performer: Charles Daellenbach. Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.
    • Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
    • CBS.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • Josquin des Prez

      La deploration de la mort de Johannes Ockeghem

      Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
      • EMI.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Nightride and Sunrise

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.

  • Herbert Howells

    The Scribe - part-song for chorus

    Ensemble: The Donald Hunt Singers. Director: Donald Hunt.
    • Sumsion, Howells and Finzi: Cathedral and Organ Music, Worcester Cathedral Choir.
    • Hyperion.
    • 4.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ALFRED BRENDEL

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Concerto No.5 in E flat major, Op.73 鈥楨mperor鈥�

      Performer: Alfred Brendel. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Symphonies of Winds

    Orchestra: Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia ch'io pianga (Rinaldo)

    Singer: Miah Persson. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Ren茅 Jacobs.
    • Haendel - Rinaldo.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 14.

Mystery Place

Answer: Opera Bastille

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