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Friday - Sarah Walker with Jackie Kay

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Early Keyboard Instruments; Artists of the Week: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, featured in Mozart's Concerto in C for flute and harp, K299.

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 today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

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 travels back to the Romantic period to explore the rise of nationalism with the Mighty Handful and Rimsky-Korsakov's Russian Easter Festival Overture.

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.

Mozart
Concerto in C for Flute and Harp, K299
Susan Palma (flute)
Nancy Allen (harp)
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    Album Leaf no.1 in A flat major

    Performer: Jenő Jandó.
    • NAXOS.
  • My favourite... early keyboard instruments

    • Anon.

      Alman; The Irishe Dumpe; Watkins Ale; A Gigg (Fitzwilliam Virginal Book)

      Composer: William Byrd.
      • DECCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in E major, HWV 430

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • SONY.
  • Jackie Kay's choice

    • Franz Liszt

      Hymne de l'enfant à son réveil (Harmonies poétiques et religieuses)

      Performer: François-Frédéric Guy.
      • ZIG ZAG.
  • Sarah's choice for Jackie Kay

    • Tobias Hume

      The Virgin's Muse

      Ensemble: Concerto Caledonia. Director: David McGuinness.
      • DELPHIAN.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mache dich, mein Herze, rein (St Matthew Passion, BWV.244)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau. Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.
    • Archiv.
  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Russian Easter Festival Overture

      Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
      • PHILIPS.
  • Joaquín Turina

    Piano Trio No 2 in B minor, Op 76

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • Philips.
  • Alexander Scriabin

    Waltz in A flat Op. 38

    Performer: Vladimir Sofronitsky.
    • MEL.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo fantastique, Op.3

    Orchestra: CBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stravinsky, Igor.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Barbara Strozzi

    Salve sancta caro (Sacri musicali affetti, Libro 1)

    Singer: María Cristina Kiehr. Ensemble: Concerto Soave.
    • Barbara Strozzi.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI l'empreinte digitale.
    • 14.
  • Artists of the Week: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Concerto for flute, harp and orchestra, K.299

      Performer: Susan Palma (flute). Performer: Nancy Allen (harp). Performer: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
      • DG.

Classical Roots

The music played:


Serge Gainsbourg/Johannes Brahms

Baby Alone in Babylone

Ա쾱(Բ)

CAPITOL MUSIC 

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