Friday - Sarah Walker with Sally Phillips
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite English Idylls; Music in Time: Zemlinsky: Symphony No 1; Proms Artist of the Day: Collegium Vocale Gent, featured in music by Purcell.
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 challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.
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: Romantic
Sarah places Music in Time, heading off to the Romantic era to explore a technique that became very popular in the late 19th century: 'monothematicism', which is the practice of using one tune as the basis for a whole movement, or piece. Sarah chooses a movement from Alexander Zemlinsky's Symphony No.1 that works melodic wonders with just one theme.
10.45am
Sarah's Proms artist of the day is a choir that tonight will be singing Mozart's Requiem, Collegium Vocale Gent, led by their long-standing conductor Philippe Herreweghe. Sarah has chosen a piece by a composer to whom their style of performance is particularly well suited, Henry Purcell.
Purcell
Welcome to All the Pleasures - Ode for St Cecilia's Day Z.339
Choir and Orchestra of Collegium Vocale Gent
Philippe Herreweghe (conductor).
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Music Played
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John Jenkins
Fantasy Γ 5 No 16 in D major
Ensemble: Fretwork.- VIRGIN.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Polichinelle in F sharp minor, Op.3 no.4
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- DECCA.
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MY FAVOURITE...ENGLISH IDYLLS
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Arnold Bax
Eire (In the faery hills)
Orchestra: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- Bax: Tone Poems Vol. 1: ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Philharmonic/Handley.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Adagio and Fugue K.546
Performer: Roberto Di Ronza. Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- DG.
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Sonny Kompanek
Killer Tango
Performer: Canadian Brass.- OPENING DAY.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Chromatic Fantasy in D minor, BWV903a
Performer: Glenn Gould.- SONY.
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JeanβBaptiste Lully
Ballet d'Alcidiane: Ritournelle et air de Mademoiselle Hilaire; Ouverture
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua KΓΆln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- DG.
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Claude Debussy
Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.- DG.
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Sally Phillip's Choice
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Georges Bizet
Carmen (Act 3 Entr'acte
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick NΓ©zetβSΓ©guin.- EMI.
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Sarah's Choice for Sally Phillips
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Jean Sibelius
2 Serenades Op.69 (no.2 in G minor)
Performer: Pekka Kuusisto. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta.- ONDINE.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No 14 in C major, H XVI 3
Performer: John McCabe.- DECCA.
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Music in Time: Romantic
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Alexander von Zemlinsky
Symphony No.1 in D minor: Allegro scherzando
Orchestra: GΓΌrzenich-Orchester KΓΆln. Conductor: James Conlon.- WARNER.
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Henry Purcell
Welcome to all the pleasures - Ode for St Cecilia's Day, Z.339
Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Claudio Monteverdi
L'Orfeo: Toccata
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- Naive.
Mystery Object
Broadcast
- Fri 26 Aug 2016 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3