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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite English Idylls; Messiaen: Quartet for the End of Time; Proms Artist of the Day: Marin Alsop, featured conducting Barber: Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

9am
My favourite... English Idylls
This week Sarah chooses a selection of pieces that are perfect for summer - English Idylls. Usually inspired by landscape or folk traditions, they tend to be a wistful and melodic reflection of pastoral or rural life. Sarah has lined up a selection of some of the best, by composers including Arnold Bax, George Butterworth, Gustav Holst, Percy Grainger and Frederic Delius.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.

10am
Sarah's guest is the actress Sally Phillips. Famous for her roles in Miranda, the Bridget Jones films and Clare in the Community and Talking to Strangers on Radio 4, Sally will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music including works which recall her upbringing in the Middle East and pieces which she discovered from playing the flute, including works by Saint-SaΓ«ns, Smetana, Rachmaninov and Cecile Chaminade. Sally is Sarah's guest every day at 10am.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
In Music in Time today Sarah turns to the Modern era. Today she places Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time under the microscope and discovers the technique of 'additive rhythms', the result of which is a kind of organized anarchy!

10.45am
Sarah's Proms artist of the day is Marin Alsop, a conductor very familiar to audiences in the Royal Albert Hall, having recently conducted two of the Last Night of the Proms. Marin is known for her mastery of American repertoire and Sarah has chosen a hyper-romantic piece by Samuel Barber - Knoxville: Summer of 1915.

Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Karina Gauvin (soprano)
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor).

2 hours

Last on

Wed 24 Aug 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun ist das Heil und die Kraft (Cantata no.50, BWV.50)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • SOLI DEO GLORIA.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas Op.95

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K.511

    Performer: Francesco Piemontesi.
    • ±·΄‘Ï³Υ·‘.
  • MY FAVOURITE...ENGLISH IDYLLS

    • George Butterworth

      The Banks of Green Willow

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
      • Vaughan Williams: A London Symphony: LSO/Hickox.
      • Chandos.
      • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    Dido and Aeneas (When I am laid in earth & With drooping wings)

    Singer: Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • SALLY PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.1

    • Leonard Bernstein

      Chichester Psalms: 2nd movement

      Choir: Vienna Youth Choir. Choir: Vienna Boys' Choir. Orchestra: Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
      • DG.
  • SALLY PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.2

    • Carl Nielsen

      Oriental Festive March; Aladdin's Dream and Dance of the Morning Mist (Aladdin Op.34)

      Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
      • DECCA.
  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour Op.12

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • Homage: James Ehnes.
    • Onyx.
    • 15.
  • Music in time: Modern

    • Olivier Messiaen

      Quartet for the End of Time: Danse de la fureur

      Performer: Gil Shaham. Performer: Paul Meyer. Performer: Jian Wang. Performer: Myung-Whun Chung.
      • DG.
  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE DAY: Marin Alsop

    • Samuel Barber

      Knoxville: Summer of 1915

      Singer: Karina Gauvin. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
      • NAXOS.
  • Anon.

    Danza del hacha

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Villancicos y danzas criollas 1550-1750: Hesperion XXI/Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 2.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Purcell
Dido & Aeneas: With Drooping Wings
Armonico Consort
Christopher Monks (director)
SIGNUM
Μύ
Shostakovich
Symphony No.5: Largo
Boston Symphony Orchestra
Andris Nelsons (conductor)
DG

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