Thursday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite English Idylls; Music in Time: classical; Proms Artist of the Day: cellist Truls Mork, featured in Miaskovsky's Cello Sonata No 1.
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 our daily musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
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-Saëns, Smetana, Rachmaninov and Cecile Chaminade. Sally is Sarah's guest every day at 10am.
10.30am
Music in Time: Classical
Sarah places Music in Time and today discovers how sets of variations were composed in the Classical era. Often the basis for the variations were well-known songs, nursery rhymes, or in the case of Beethoven's Variations on "Kind, willst du ruhig schlafen", from a popular opera. Beethoven takes what is quite a simple tune, and produces something altogether more complex.
10.45am
Sarah's Proms artist of the day is the Danish cellist Truls Mørk. Tonight Truls will be tackling the fiendishly difficult First Cello Concerto by Shostakovich, and this morning Sarah features Truls in music by another Soviet composer, Nikolai Miaskovsky, his First Cello Sonata, a relaxed and reflective piece written in a much more Romantic style.
Miaskovsky
Cello Sonata No.1
Truls Mørk (cello)
Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano).
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Music Played
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
Prichudi [Whimsies], Op.25: V. Allegretto vivace
Performer: Masha Dimitrieva.- EDITION ZEITKLANG.
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MY FAVOURITE...ENGLISH IDYLLS
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Percy Grainger
Youthful Rapture
Performer: Stephen Orton. Performer: Hamish Milne.- CHANDOS.
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François Couperin
La sultane: Sonate en quatuor
Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Bedrich Smetana
Prelude to Libuse
Orchestra: 鶹Լ Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- CHANDOS.
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Claude Debussy
Pour le piano
Performer: Rafał Blechacz.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Madamina, il catalogo è questo (Don Giovanni)
Singer: Bryn Terfel. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: James Levine.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
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William Henry Harris
Faire is the heaven
Choir: Choir of Merton College, Oxford. Conductor: Benjamin Nicholas.- Viri Galilaei: Favourite Anthems from Merton.
- Delphian.
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SALLY PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.1
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Ennio Morricone
Once Upon a Time in the West: Main Title
Conductor: Ennio Morricone. Orchestra: Orchestra. Orchestra: Choir.- RCA.
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SALLY PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.2
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Goran Bregović
Underground: ‘Mescina/Moonlight’
Performer: Zorz Gruic. Performer: Nenad Jelic. Performer: Ogi Radivojevic. Singer: Zdravko Čolić. Singer: Zdravko Čolić. Orchestra: Slobodan Salijevic Gypsy Brass Orchestra. Orchestra: Slobodan Salijevic Gypsy Brass Orchestra. Orchestra: Boban Markovic Gypsy Brass Orchestra. Orchestra: Boban Markovic Gypsy Brass Orchestra.- MERCURY.
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SALLY PHILLIPS' CHOICE NO.3
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Ruggero Leoncavallo
Pagliacci: Intermezzo
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Jean‐Philippe Rameau
Les Paladins - orchestral suite, Air tres gay
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Gustav Leonhardt.- Rameau: Suite Les Paladins: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Leonhardt.
- Philips.
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Music in Time: Classical
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Ludwig van Beethoven
8 Variations in C major on a romance from Gretry’s Richard Coeur de Lion
Performer: Ronald Brautigam.- BIS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Danse Napolitaine (Swan Lake, Act III)
Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.- DECCA.
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PROMS ARTIST OF THE DAY: TRULS MORK
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Myaskovsky
Cello Sonata No.1
Performer: Truls Mørk. Performer: Jean‐Yves Thibaudet.- VIRGIN.
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By Association
Answer: Mozart and Michael Nyman
The music played:
Nyman
In re Don Giovanni
Michael Nyman Band
Michael Nyman (director)
VENTURE
Broadcast
- Thu 25 Aug 2016 09:00鶹Լ Radio 3