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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Jackie Kay

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Early Keyboard Instruments; Music in Time: Beethoven: Missa Solemnis; Artists of the Week: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Copland: Appalachian Spring.

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: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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.

10:30
Sarah places Music in Time as she explores the Classical period and Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, which brought music from the Napoleonic Wars into the church.

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.

Copland
Appalachian Spring
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

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Wed 30 Mar 2016 09:00
麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Les sauvages (Suite in G minor, Nouvelles suites de pi猫ces de clavecin)

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
    • HYPERION.

  • Trad.

    She moved through the fair

    Performer: Edin Karamazov. Performer: Stacey Shames. Singer: Andreas Scholl.
    • DECCA.

  • MY FAVOURITE... EARLY KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

    • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

      Gavotte et doubles (Suite in A minor, Nouvelles Suites de Pieces de Clavecin)

      Performer: Mahan Esfahani.
      • HYPERION.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Marche Slave

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.

  • Christopher Gibbons

    Fantasy-Suite in D minor

    Ensemble: Academy of Ancient Music.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

    Trio pathetique in D minor

    Performer: Mark Lacey. Performer: Alec Forshaw. Performer: Paul Guinery.
    • Harmoniemusik.

  • Franz Schubert

    An Schwager Kronos

    Music Arranger: Johannes Brahms. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • JACKIE KAY'S CHOICE NO. 1

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Fidelio: Overture

      Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.

  • JACKIE KAY'S CHOICE NO. 2

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      III. Largo (Cello Sonata, Op.65)

      Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Martha Argerich.
      • DG.

  • Herbert Howells

    Psalm-Prelude in C major, 'Sing unto him a new song'

    Performer: Christopher Dearnley.
    • Howells: Psalm-preludes & rhapsodies: Dearnley.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Music in Time: Classical

    • Charlotte Margiono, Catherine Robbin, William Kendall & Alastair Miles

      Missa solemnis

      Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Ferdinando Paer

    Sargino (Overture)

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Preludes, Op. 23: No. 6 in E flat major; No. 3 in D minor

    Performer: Howard Shelley.
    • Hyperion.

  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

    • Aaron Copland

      Appalachian Spring (extract)

      Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
      • DG.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Waltzes, Op. 39 Nos. 1, 2, 5, 6, 10, 14 & 15

    Performer: Dinu Lipatti. Performer: Nadia Boulanger.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Mass for Four Voices

    Choir: The Sixteen. Performer: Margaret Phillips. Conductor: Harry Christophers.

By Association

Answer: Schubert and Brahms

The music played:

Schubert arr. Brahms
An Schwager Kronos (Spute dich Kronos!)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
SDG

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    麻豆约拍 Radio 3

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