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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Clarinettists; Music in Time: Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique; Shostakovich: Symphony No 15, conducted by Mstislav Rostropovich.

9am
My favourite... clarinettists. Sarah showcases her favourite clarinettists, past and present, including Martin Frost, Sabine Meyer, Michael Collins, Andrew Sparling and Benny Goodman. They'll be performing works such as Poulenc's lyrical Clarinet Sonata, Mendelssohn's virtuosic Konzertstuck No. 1 in F minor and the jazz-infused Prelude, Fugue and Riffs by Leonard Bernstein.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest is the award-winning actress Tamsin Greig. Familiar to many listeners as Debbie Aldridge on Radio 4's The Archers, Tamsin also currently stars in the sitcom Episodes and in Channel 4's Friday Night Dinner. Tamsin's other screen roles include Dr. Caroline Todd in Green Wing and Fran Katzenjammer in Black Books. Also an acclaimed stage actress, Tamsin won a Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress for her role as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing with the Royal Shakespeare Company, and received Olivier award nominations for The Little Dog Laughed and Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown. Tamsin will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Beethoven, Tchaikovsky and Charles Stanford, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the Â鶹ԼÅÄ4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today, she looks at Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, whose movements tell a story in music.

11am
This week Sarah focuses on not just one but five artists, as she celebrates distinguished instrumentalists and singers who have also developed careers as conductors.

Shostakovich
Symphony No. 15 in A major
London Symphony Orchestra
Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor).

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Tue 7 Jun 2016 09:00
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Cecil Coles

    Fantastic in appearance (Four Verlaine Songs)

    Singer: Sarah Fox. Orchestra: Â鶹ԼÅÄ Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
    • HYPERION.

  • MY FAVOURITE...CLARINETTISTS

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Konzertstück No 1 in F minor, Op 113

      Performer: Sabine Meyer. Performer: Wolfgang Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.
      • EMI.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in D major, H.15.8

    Ensemble: Beaux Arts Trio.
    • PENTATONE.

  • Alonso Lobo

    O quam suavis est, Domine

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Martin Baker.
    • HYPERION.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Polka in F major (Czech Dances Book 1)

    Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
    • HYPERION.

  • Arnold Bax

    Tintagel

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • BELART.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Andante Cantabile

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • TAMSIN GREIG'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      II. Adagio cantabile (Sonata in C minor, Op.13 'Pathetique' )

      Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.
      • PHILIPS.

  • TAMSIN GREIG'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Hans Krása

      'Little children, how I hate 'em' (Brundibar (Bumble Bee), Act 1, Scene 8)

      Singer: Morgan Smith. Singer: Maureen McKay. Singer: Ross Hauck. Singer: Holly Boaz. Singer: David Korn. Singer: Auston James. Orchestra: Music of Remembrance. Conductor: Gerard Schwarz.
      • NAXOS.

  • TAMSIN GREIG'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Pyotr Tchaikovsky

      Valse sentimentale, Op.51 No.6

      Performer: Heinrich Schiff. Performer: Samuel Sanders.
      • PHILIPS.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Hector Berlioz

      I. Reveries - Passions (Symphony fantastique, Op.14)

      Orchestra: Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • PHILIPS.

  • Claude Debussy

    ¸éê±¹±ð°ù¾±±ð

    Performer: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • Debussy: Images, Arabesques: Kocsis.
    • Philips.
    • 12.

  • Edward Elgar

    Give unto the Lord for chorus and organ, Op 74

    Performer: Jonathan Vaughn. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • Naxos.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MUSICIANS TURNED CONDUCTORS

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Symphony No 15 in A major, Op 141

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.
      • TELDEC.

  • Steve Reich

    Vermont Counterpoint

    Performer: Kuniko Kato.
    • Kuniko Plays Reich.
    • Linn Records.
    • 5.

  • Alexander Sergeyevich Dargomyzhsky

    Yunosha i deva [The Girl and the youth] for voice and piano

    Singer: Galina Vichnievskaia. Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich.
    • Erato.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Tchaikovsky
Variations on a Rococo Theme: Variation No.7
Mstislav Rostropovich (cello)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG

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  • Tue 7 Jun 2016 09:00
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