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Friday - Sarah Walker with Marcus du Sautoy

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Organs of Europe; Music in Time: Bruckner: Symphony No 4; Artist of the Week: Herbert von Karajan, featured conducting Strauss's Four Last Songs.

9am
My favourite... organs of Europe. Sarah tours Europe as she offers up a selection of organ works, performed on great instruments including the organ of St. Laurenskerk Alkmaar in Holland, the organ in Denmark's Aarhus Cathedral, which dates back to 1730, the organs of Notre Dame and Germany's Freiburg Cathedral, and the organ of the Royal Albert Hall.

9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?

10am
Sarah's guest is the mathematician, writer and presenter Marcus du Sautoy. Known for popularising mathematics, Marcus is the Simonyi Professor for the Public Understanding of Science, and is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Oxford. Marcus will be talking to Sarah about maths and music, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical works, including music by Reich, Ligeti and Messiaen, every day at 10am.

10:30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah places Music in Time as she showcases Bruckner's use of extreme dynamics to achieve heightened emotional impact in the finale of his Symphony No.4 in E flat major, WAB 104 'Romantic'.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the legendary conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan. Throughout the week Sarah shares classic recordings from Karajan's archives including Beethoven's 'Pastoral' Symphony, Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto and Strauss's Four Last Songs.

Strauss
Vier letze Lieder
Gundula Janowitz (soprano)
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Herbert von Karajan (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier (Introduction)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • EMI.

  • My favourite... organs of Europe

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Chorale-Prelude 'Schmücke dich, o liebe Seele', BWV 599

      Performer: David Goode.
      • SIGNUM.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Overture in D major (Tafelmusik, 2nd production)

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Director: Petra Müllejans. Director: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ballade in B major, Op.10 no.4

    Performer: Alessio Bax.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Guillaume Dufay

    Rite majorem Jacobum

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Notturno No 8 in G major, H II 27

    Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Soloists Ensemble. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • LINN.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in D minor, BWV 851 (Book 1, The Well-Tempered Clavier)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

  • Marcus du Sautoy's Choice No. 1

    • Steve Reich

      Piano Phase (excerpt)

      Performer: Mahan Esfahani. Music Arranger: Mahan Esfahani.
      • ARCHIV.

  • Marcus du Sautoy's Choice No. 2

    • Charles Ives

      The Unanswered Question

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
      • CBS.

  • Sarah's choice for Marcus du Sautoy

    • Thomas Tallis

      If ye love me

      Ensemble: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
      • GIMELL.

  • Johann David Heinichen

    Pastorale in A major

    Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • Concerti "per l'orchestra di Dresda": Musica Antiqua Koln.
    • Archiv Produktion.
    • 16.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Anton Bruckner

      IV. Bewegt, doch nicht zu schnell (Symphony No.4 in E flat major, 'Romantic')

      Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Günter Wand.
      • EMI.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Divertimento, Op.9

    Performer: Christopher O'Neal. Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Deux-Elles.

  • Artist of the Week: Herbert von Karajan

    • Richard Strauss

      Four Last Songs

      Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Philharmonisches Bläserquintett Berlin. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
      • DG.

  • Josef Suk

    Fantastic Scherzo

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Decca.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Lads of Wamphray

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • The Grainger Edition: Works for Wind Orchestra 1.
    • Chandos.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Tavener
Opening (The Protecting Veil)
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL

Bach, J.S. 
Prelude in D minor (Well-Tempered Clavier Book 1)
Angela Hewitt (piano)
HYPERION

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