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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Jackie Kay

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Early Keyboard Instruments; Music in Time: Scarlatti: Sonata in E, K380; Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks.

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 remember the television show that featured this piece of classical music?

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 as she turns to the Baroque period and Domenico Scarlatti's forward-looking Sonata in E major K.380, which anticipates the classical style.

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.

Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV351
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

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Thu 31 Mar 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    The Young Juliet (Romeo and Juliet)

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Le rouet d'Omphale

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.

  • MY FAVOURITE... EARLY KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS

    • Peter Philips

      Galliardo (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

      Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
      • DECCA.

  • Giles Farnaby

    Fantasia (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

    Performer: Christopher Hogwood.
    • DECCA.

  • Francesco Geminiani

    Concerto grosso in D minor 'La Folia' after Corelli's Op.5`12

    Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Ensemble: Concerto KΓΆln.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen (Ruckert-Lieder)

    Music Arranger: Clytus Gottwald. Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • SIMAX.

  • Paul Reade

    Victorian Kitchen Garden Suite

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Danse macabre

    Performer: Kyung-wha Chung. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • DECCA.

  • JACKIE KAY'S CHOICE NO. 1

    • Fats Waller

      Honeysuckle Rose

      Singer: Ella Fitzgerald. Orchestra: Count Basie Orchestra.
      • PABLO TODAY.

  • JACKIE KAY'S CHOICE NO. 2

    • Leos JanÑček

      Dymak; Starodavny II (Lachian Dances)

      Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

  • JACKIE KAY'S CHOICE NO. 3

    • Fatoumata Diawara

      Kanou

      • WORLD CIRCUIT RECORDS.

  • Music in Time: Baroque

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.380

      Performer: Jill Crossland.
      • DIVINE ART.

  • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

    EntrΓ©e de Polimnie (Les BorΓ©ades)

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Les Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzi. Op. 117

    Performer: Ivan Ilić.

  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

    • George Frideric Handel

      Music for the Royal Fireworks

      Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
      • DG.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Quintet for piano and wind (Op.16) in E flat major

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.

  • Joachim Raff

    Prelude to Shakespeare's The Tempest

    Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Chandos.

Heard on Screen

Answer: Jonathan Creek

The music played:

Saint-Saens
Danse macabre
Luben Yordanoff (violin)
Paris Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
DG

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