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Monday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite British String Music; Music in Time: A saltarello by Joan Ambrosio Dalza; Elgar: The Dream of Gerontius (Pt 1), with the Huddersfield Choral Society.

9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederic Delius.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery place.

10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on Â鶹ԼÅÄ 6 Music. Every day at 10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.

10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Sarah heads back to the Medieval period with a Saltarello by Joan Ambrosio Dalza. Originally from Italy, the saltarello is a dance form played in a fast triple meter and named after the Italian 'saltare' - 'to jump'.

11am
In the week of Â鶹ԼÅÄ Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.

Elgar
The Dream of Gerontius Op.38 - Part I
Gerontius: Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
The Priest: Michael George (bass)
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir
Huddersfield Choral Society
Stephen Disley (organ)
Vernon Handley (conductor).

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Mon 30 May 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • Thomas Morley

    Now is the month of maying

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.

  • MY FAVOURITE...BRITISH STRING MUSIC

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Fantasia on Greensleeves

      Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
      • EMI.

  • Peter Phillips

    Pavan and Galliard, 'Phillips Pavin'

    Ensemble: Julian Bream Consort.
    • Fantasies, Ayres and Dances: The Julian Bream Consort.
    • RCA Victor.
    • 2.

  • Hugo Alfvén

    Uppsala Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.
    • BIS.

  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Fantasy in B minor, Op 11 No 1

    Performer: Roland Pöntinen.
    • BIS.

  • Pink Floyd

    Comfortably Numb

    Music Arranger: Jaz Coleman. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Scholes.
    • POINT.

  • Johann Kaspar Kerll

    Capriccio sopra il cucu

    Performer: Lionel Rogg.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    In the Fen Country

    Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.
    • DECCA.

  • Trad.

    Lord of all hopefulness

    Choir: Ely Cathedral Choir. Performer: Scott Farrell. Conductor: Paul Trepte.

  • GUY GARVEY'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Symphony No 4 in A major, Op 90, 'Italian' (1st mvt)

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
      • DECCA.

  • GUY GARVEY'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Joseph Canteloube

      Baïlèro (Chants d'Auvergne Set 1)

      Singer: Arleen Augér. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.
      • VIRGIN CLASSICS.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Restless (Nocturnal after John Dowland)

    Performer: Craig Ogden.
    • HYPERION.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: MEDIEVAL

    • Alfonso X el Sabio

      Saltarello [Cantigas de Santa Maria no.77-119]

      Performer: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
      • Orient - Occident 1200-1700.
      • Alia Vox.
      • 20.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Saltarello Romano, Op 6 No 4

    Performer: Dinorah Varsi.
    • GENUIN.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony no.70 in D major H.1.70; 1. Vivace con brio

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Welcome as the dawn of day (Solomon)

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: King's Consort. Conductor: Robert King.
    • Your Tuneful Voice.
    • VIVAT.
    • 8.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: BRITISH CHORAL SOCIETIES

    • Edward Elgar

      The Dream of Gerontius Op.38 (Part 1)

      Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Choir: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Choir. Choir: Huddersfield Choral Society. Performer: Stephen Disley. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
      • EMI.

  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske, Op 88 No 2 (Phantasiestücke)

    Performer: Renaud Capuçon. Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Gautier Capuçon.
    • Live from the Lugano Festival 2009, Martha Argerich and friends.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture

    Conductor: Otto Klemperer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • Brahms: Symphonies Nos. 1-4: Philharmonia Orchestra/Klemperer.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 5.

Mystery Place

Answer: Ely Cathedral

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