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Sound Frontiers: Monday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore

Live from London's Southbank Centre. With My Favourite Contemporary Choral Music; Britten cabaret songs; Artist of the Week: Andrew Manze, featured in Bach: Double Violin Concerto.

9am
My favourite... contemporary choral music. Sarah shares a selection of contemporary choral works that are ear catching, innovative and often very beautiful. Sarah has long had a soft spot for this repertoire and throughout the week she seeks out some of her favourite pieces by composers including Gabriel Jackson, Judith Weir, Eriks EÅ¡envalds and Antony Pitts. You'll be signing up to your local choir in no time.

9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

10am
Sarah's guest is the writer and comedian John Finnemore. John is best known for writing and starring in the multi-award winning Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure, and for his radio sketch show John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. He has written for other comedy shows including That Mitchell and Webb Look, Dead Ringers, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth, and has also appeared as a panelist on shows including Just a Minute and The News Quiz. John will be talking music, comedy and wordplay every day at 10am, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical works, including Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen and Mozart's Bassoon Concerto. And on Friday, as part of Radio 3's 70th anniversary celebrations, John and friends will be performing a specially written musical sketch show live in the Radio 3 pop-up studio at Southbank Centre, London.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Sarah places Music in Time, looking at the blurring of musical boundaries in the 20th century. Benjamin Britten was just one of a number of composers who looked to music from popular idioms as the basis for their works. Sarah shares a few of Britten's witty and exuberant cabaret songs.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Andrew Manze, who has been called "the first modern superstar of the baroque violin". Sarah explores some of Manze's finest recordings of works by composers including Biber and J.S. Bach, featuring the two groups with which he's most closely associated, the Academy of Ancient Music and The English Concert. Beyond the baroque, Sarah will also share some of Manze's work as a conductor, including his recent collaboration with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and his recording of the complete cycle of symphonies by Vaughan Williams.

J.S. Bach
Concerto for two violins in D minor, BWV1043
Andrew Manze & Rachel Podger (violins)
Academy of Ancient Music
Andrew Manze (director).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in E major, K.135

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
    • SONY.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Canzon No.6

    Ensemble: The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet.
    • DELOS.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Die Schone Melusine - overture Op.32

    Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Antonio Méndez.
    • LINN.
  • MY FAVOURITE...CONTEMPORARY CHORAL MUSIC

    • Giles Swayne

      Senegalese Song: O Lulum & Magnificat I

      Singer: Sophie Bevan. Singer: Carris Jones. Singer: Kate Symonds-Joy. Singer: Bea Alden. Singer: Peter Davoren. Singer: Jonathan Seller. Choir: Dmitri Ensemble. Conductor: Graham Ross.
      • NAXOS.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Prelude in A flat major, Op.28 No.17

    Performer: Yulianna Avdeeva.
    • MIRARE.
  • Arvo Pärt

    Silouan's Song

    Orchestra: Estonian National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Järvi.
    • WARNER.
  • Arthur Sullivan

    The Yeoman of the Guard (I have a song to sing, O!)

    Librettist: William Gilbert. Singer: Elsie Morison. Singer: Geraint Evans. Choir: Glyndebourne Chorus. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.
    • EMI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Sonata in E minor, K.304

    Performer: Szymon Goldberg. Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • DECCA.
  • Philip Glass

    Knee Play 1 (Einstein on the Beach)

    Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • SONY.
  • JOHN FINNEMORE'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Pietro Mascagni

      Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

      Performer: Grimethorpe Colliery Band.
      • RCA.
  • JOHN FINNEMORE'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Bassoon Concerto in B flat major, K.191

      Performer: Stepan Turnovsky. Orchestra: Vienna Mozart Academy. Conductor: Johannes Wildner.
      • NAXOS.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: MODERN

    • Benjamin Britten

      Cabaret Songs: O tell me the truth about love; Funeral Blues

      Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Ann Murray.
      • AVIE.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Columbia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bruno Walter.
    • CBS.
  • Louis Vierne

    Carillon de Westminster, Op.54 No.6

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ANDREW MANZE

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Double Concerto in D minor, BWV.1043

      Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Andrew Manze.
      • J.S.Bach, Solo & Double Violin Concertos.
      • Harmonia Mundi.
      • 1.
  • Béla Bartók

    Transylvanian Dances Sz.96

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • EÌ„riks EsÌŒenvalds

    Infelix ego (after Byrd)

    Choir: ORA. Conductor: Suzi Digby.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Czech Suite in D major

    Orchestra: Český Komorní Orchestr. Conductor: Josef Vlach.
    • SUPRAPHON.

Mystery Person

Answer: Philip Glass

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