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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Jackie Kay

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Early Keyboard Instruments; Holst: Suite No 2 for Military Band; Artists of the Week: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Bizet's Symphony in C.

9am
My favourite... early keyboard instruments. Sarah explores the variety of instruments with keyboards that composers wrote music for before the pianoforte came to prominence in the late 18th century. Sarah explores music for the harpsichord, fortepiano, chamber organ, virginals and spinet, by composers including Mozart, Rameau, Giles Farnaby, Martin Peerson and William Byrd.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest is the Scottish poet and novelist Jackie Kay. Jackie is an award-winning writer of poetry, plays and novels. Her recent works include a collection of short stories, Reality, Reality, a book of poetry titled Fiere, and a memoir about meeting her Nigerian birth father, Red Dust Road. Jackie will be talking about her writing and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including a work by Errollyn Wallen, the traditional Scottish song Eriskay Love Lilt and Robert Burns' Mary Morison, every day at 10am.

10:30am
Sarah places Music in Time. Today the spotlight turns to the Modern period and the English folksong school with Holst's Second Suite for Military Band.

11am
Sarah's artists of the week are the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Founded in 1972 in New York by a group of musicians keen to marry the richness of the orchestral sound with the intimacy of a chamber ensemble, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra play without a conductor, preferring a collaborative partnership of musicians. They have since become recognised as one of the world's great ensembles. Throughout the week Sarah features their recordings of repertoire by composers ranging from Handel and Mozart to Bizet and Copland.

Bizet
Symphony in C
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

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Tue 29 Mar 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • Giacomo Puccini

    Gianni Schicchi: "O mio babbino caro"

    Performer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi. Conductor: Anton Coppola.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Flute Concerto in G major

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Kammerorchester Basel. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • WARNER.

  • MY FAVOURITE... Early Keyboard Instruments

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Fantasia in D minor, K.397

      Performer: Kristian Bezuidenhout.

  • Carlos Salzedo

    Seguidilla; Bolero; Rumba (Suite of Eight Dances)

    Performer: Yolanda Kondonassis.
    • TELARC.

  • NiccolΓ² Paganini

    Cantabile Op.17

    Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert McDonald.
    • SONY.

  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Premier Concert (Les Concerts Royaux)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Alborada del gracioso

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

  • Jackie Kay's Choice No. 1

    • Giacomo Puccini

      β€˜Bimba, bimba, non piangere’ (Madame Butterfly, Act 1)

      Singer: Renata Tebaldi. Singer: Carlo Bergonzi. Singer: Fiorenza Cossotto. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.
      • DECCA.

  • Jackie Kay's Choice No. 2

    • Gustav Mahler

      Symphony Number 2 – In ruhig fliessender Bewegung

      Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    6 melodies (Allegro molto quasi Presto)

    Performer: BΓ©atrice Rauchs.
    • BIS.

  • Music in time: Modern

    • Gustav Holst

      Suite in F major for military band, Op 28 No 2

      Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Andreas Scholl (countertenor) & Edin Karamazov (lute)

    Annie Laurie

  • Percy Grainger

    Lincolnshire Posy

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.

  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • Georges Bizet

      Symphony in C major

      Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
      • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    Fantasy in C major, D 760, 'Wanderer'

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Ravel
Alborada del gracioso
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG

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