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Friday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite British String Music; Music in Time: Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3; Wagner: Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser); ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers live in Bristol.

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 Frederick Delius.

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

10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 6 Music. Every day at 10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, FranΓ§aix and Mendelssohn.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the first of the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ4 series Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. She showcases the flamboyant musical style of superstar pianist-composer Liszt, as demonstrated in his Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B flat, S244.

11am
Especially for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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.

Wagner
Pilgrims' Chorus (TannhΓ€user)

John Hughes
Calon LΓ’n
Treorchy Male Voice Choir
John Cynan Jones (organ)

11.20am
Live music for ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Music Day as Sarah hands over to Katie Derham to introduce a live performance by The ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers from a canteen in Bristol celebrating the 75th anniversary of "Workers' Playtime" on the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Service.

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Fri 3 Jun 2016 09:00
ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bob Chilcott

    Green Rain (The Angry Planet, Part 2)

    Choir: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Singers. Choir: Finchley Childrens Music Group. Choir: Bach Choir. Choir: London Youth Choir. Choir: The Young Sisters. Conductor: David Hill.
    • SIGNUM.

  • My favourite... British String Music

    • Gustav Holst

      St Paul's Suite: Jig

      Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV671 (chorale prelude)

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • George Frideric Handel

    'Or let the merry bells ring round' (L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)

    Singer: Gillian Webster. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.

  • York Bowen

    3 Serious dances Op.51 (no.2)

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
    • Hyperion.
    • 14.

  • John Field

    Nocturne no.5 in B flat major

    Performer: Benjamin Frith.
    • NAXOS.

  • Traditional Turkish

    Makam Rast 'Murass'a' usul Duyek

    Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Ensemble Instrumental.
    • Orient Occident (1000 - 1600).
    • AliaVox.
    • 1.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Irish Rhapsody No 3 in D major

    Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Anonymous

    Marv Pontkalleg

    Performer: Alan Stivell.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Guy Garvey's Choice

    • Geoffrey Burgon

      Nunc Dimittis

      Singer: Paul Miles-Kingston. Performer: Crispian Steele‐Perkins. Performer: Martin Neary.
      • EMI.

  • Sarah Walker's Choice for Guy Garvey

    • Gabriel FaurΓ©

      Impromptu, Op 86

      Performer: Catrin Finch.
      • Carnival de Venise.
      • SAIN.
      • 7.

  • Johann Joseph Fux

    Overture in D minor (Overture)

    Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.
    • Baroque Suites.
    • CLASSICAL COMMUNICATIONS.
    • 11.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Franz Liszt

      Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B flat, S.244

      Performer: Nelson Freire.
      • DECCA.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    From Darkness to Light, Op 53

    Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.
    • BIS.

  • Artist of the Week: British Choral Societies

    • Richard Wagner

      Pilgrims' Chorus

      Performer: Treorchy Male Choir.
      • EMI.

    • John Hughes

      Calon Lan

      Performer: John Cynan Jones. Choir: Treorchy Male Voice Choir.
      • EMI.

  • Alun Hoddinott

    Welsh Dances Suite No 1, Op 15

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.
    • Lyrita.

  • George Gershwin

    Prelude no.1

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • EMI.

  • Billy Joel

    Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel)

    Composer: Billy Joel.

  • Tea for Two

  • Jean FranΓ§aix

    Theme and variations

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Bradley Moore.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances No 1 in G minor and No 3 in F major

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Brahms: The Symphonies.
    • Decca.
    • 25-26.

Mystery Object

Answer: the Celtic Harp

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  • Fri 3 Jun 2016 09:00
    ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3

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