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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Tamsin Greig

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Clarinettists; Music in Time: Weber: Der Freischutz (excerpt); Haydn's Symphony No 6, with the English Concert conducted by Trevor Pinnock.

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: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ4 series Revolution & Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today, she explores the sinister 'Wolf's Glen' scene from Weber's opera Der FreischΓΌtz, an unearthly portrayal of the supernatural.

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.

Haydn
Symphony No. 6 in D major (Le Matin)
The English Concert
Trevor Pinnock (conductor).

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Thu 9 Jun 2016 09:00
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Gigue (Harpsichord Suite in G major, HWV441)

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Homage March (Sigurd Jorsalfar)

    Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.
    • Grieg: Symphonic Dances, etc.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 013.

  • My favourite... clarinettists

    • Laurence Crane

      Sparling

      Performer: Andrew Sparling. Performer: Alan Thomas.
      • NMC.

  • Christoph Graupner

    Bassoon Concerto in C major, GWV 301

    Performer: Peter Whelan. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Director: Monica Huggett.
    • LINN.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse Triste (Kuolema Op.44)

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Rebecca Clarke

    Dumka

    Performer: Daniel Hope. Performer: Philip Dukes. Performer: Sophia Rahman.
    • NAXOS.

  • FranΓ§ois Couperin

    Les Ombres Errantes (Pieces de clavecin - ordre no.25)

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma mère l'oye (Le jardin féerique)

    Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zet‐SΓ©guin.
    • Yannick Nezet-Seguin Ravel Rotterdam Phiharmonic Orchestra.
    • EMI.
    • 17.

  • Edvard Grieg

    II. Adagio (Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16)

    Performer: Arthur Rubinstein. Orchestra: Symphony of the Air. Conductor: Alfred Wallenstein.
    • RCA.

  • Tamsin Greig's Choice No. 2

    • Samuel Barber

      Adagio for Strings

      Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Thomas Schippers.
      • SONY.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Carl Maria von Weber

      'Milch des Mondes fiel aufs Kraut' (Der Freischutz)

      Singer: Peter Schreier. Singer: Theo Adam. Choir: Leipzig Radio Choir. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
      • DG.

  • Richard Wagner

    Parsifal (Act 1 Prelude)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • PHILIPS.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MUSICIANS TURNED CONDUCTORS

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No 6 in D major, 'Le matin'

      Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
      • ARCHIV.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Movements for a Clarinet Concerto

    Composer: Colin Matthews. Performer: Michael Collins. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia. Conductor: Thomas Zehetmair.
    • NMC.

  • Charles‐Marie Widor

    Mass for double choir and 2 organs, Op.36

    Performer: Joseph Cullen. Performer: Andrew Reid. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Choir: The Hyperion Chorus of Baritones. Director: James O’Donnell.
    • Vierne, Widor & Dupre: Masses & Motets: Choir of Westminster, James O'Donell.
    • Hyperion.
    • 12.

By Association

Answer: Ravel and Couperin

The music played:

Ravel
Le Tombeau de Couperin
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG

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