Thursday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell
With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Dowland Songs; Music in Time: cori spezzati; Artist of the Week: Pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, featured in Janacek's On an Overgrown Path (Bk 1).
9am
My favourite... Dowland Songs. Throughout the week Sarah dips into the songbooks of John Dowland, sharing a selection ranging from Fine knacks for ladies (which offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of an Elizabethan pedlar), to the melodious and romantic Come again sweet love from Dowland's First Book of Songs, which was published in 1597.
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 this week is the illustrator, writer and Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. Chris has enjoyed critical acclaim for his illustrated books for children, which include the bestselling Ottoline books and The Emperor of Absurdia. He has won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal twice for his illustrations, in 2002 for Pirate Diary and in 2004 for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver and also won the Costa Children's Book Award for Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse in 2013. Chris has worked with collaborators including Paul Stewart on the Muddle Earth, Edge Chronicles and Wyrmweald series and Neil Gaiman on The Graveyard Book, The Sleeper and the Spindle, and Fortunately the Milk. In addition to his children's books, Chris is a renowned political cartoonist whose work appears in The Observer, The Literary Review and The New Statesman. Chris will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Philip Glass, Debussy and Gorecki, and sketching along with Sarah in the studio, every day at 10am.
10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Sarah takes a trip to the Renaissance period as she investigates the dramatic possibilities of the Venetian polychoral style known as 'cori spezzati' - separated choirs.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Canadian pianist Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Sarah shares his recordings of piano classics ranging from the fleeting images of Schumann's Waldszenen and Janacek's From an Overgrown Path to the highly-structured sonatas of Mozart and Haydn, as well as sampling his own composition: Etudes in all the minor keys.
Janacek
On the Overgrown Path, Book 1
Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano).
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Music Played
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
Celadensky (Lachian Dances)
Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ondrej Len谩rd.- NAXOS.
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Running Footman; Greensleeves; Pudding Pyes
Ensemble: Ulsamer Collegium. Conductor: Josef Ulsamer.- DG.
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MY FAVOURITE...DOWLAND SONGS
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John Dowland
I saw my lady weepe
Performer: Anthony Rooley. Singer: Emma Kirkby.- BIS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto No.4 in E flat major, K.495
Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maag.- DECCA.
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Ferdinand H茅rold
La Fille Mal Gardee (excerpts)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.- CLASSICS FOR PLEASURE.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
3 Latin Motets, Op.38
Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.- HYPERION.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
IV. Allegro con brio (Symphony No.7 in A major, Op.92)
Performer: Leslie Howard. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Music Arranger: Franz Liszt.- HYPERION.
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CHRIS RIDDELL'S CHOICE NO.1
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Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki
II. Lento e largo (Symphony No.3 鈥楽ymphony of Sorrowful Songs鈥�)
Singer: Joanna Koz艂owska. Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Kazimierz Kord.- DECCA.
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CHRIS RIDDELL'S CHOICE NO.2
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude (Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV1007)
Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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CHRIS RIDDELL'S CHOICE NO.3
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Philip Glass
Mad Rush (excerpt)
Performer: Valentina Lisitsa.- DECCA.
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MUSIC IN TIME: Renaissance
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Jubilate Deo omnis terra
Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Conductor: Stephen Cleobury.- KINGS COLLEGE.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
St Matthew Passion, BWV224: Kommt, ihr Tochter
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Choir: London Oratory Junior Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- Bach: St Matthew Passion: Monteverdi Choir/English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner.
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Francis Poulenc
Flute Sonata
Performer: Juliette Hurel. Performer: H茅l猫ne Couvert.- Impressions francaises.
- Zig Zag Territories.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
On the overgrown path (Book 1)
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- HYPERION.
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Franz Schubert
Symphony No 8 in B minor, D 759, 'Unfinished'
Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
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Franz Schubert
An Sylvia, D 891
Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: John Mark Ainsley.- Schubert - Complete Songs.
- Hyperion.
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By Association
Answer: Beethoven and Liszt
The music played:
Beethoven (arr. Liszt)鈥�
III. Scherzo (Symphony No.5 in C minor)鈥�
Leslie Howard (piano)鈥�
HYPERION
Broadcast
- Thu 7 Jul 2016 09:00麻豆约拍 Radio 3
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