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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Ken Loach

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite 18th-Century Overtures; Music in Time: Rameau: Les Boreades (excerpt); Artists of the Week: Netherlands Chamber Choir, featured performing Poulenc.

9am
My favourite... 18th century overtures. Sarah shares a selection of her favourite overtures. These were designed to settle a restive audience and prepare them for an opera, or to open concerts or grand celebrations. Sarah's featured works include operatic overtures by Mozart and his rival Antonio Salieri, as well as instrumental pieces by Josef Myslivecek and by Handel - music that accompanied the firework display in London's Green Park in 1749 marking the end of the War of Austrian Succession.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am
Sarah's guest is the celebrated film director Ken Loach. Ken's films include Cathy Come ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ, whose powerful message helped to change the law on homelessness when it was first broadcast in 1966, as well as Kes, My Name is Joe and Sweet Sixteen. His work across television and film has won him awards including the BAFTA Fellowship and two Palme d'Ors for his 2006 film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and for his most recent film, I, Daniel Blake, which tackles unemployment and poverty in Britain today. Ken talks about his directing career and his favourite pieces of classical music throughout the week, including music by Canteloube, Brahms and Haydn, who Ken insists is the best composer to get dressed to in the morning.

10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Followed by
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah places Music in Time as she dives into the Baroque era - when rigorous theory and tender expression could exist side by side, as heard in Rameau's EntrΓ©e de Polymnie from his tragedie-lyrique 'Les Boreades'.

11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Founded in 1937, the Nederlands Kamerkoor has developed a worldwide reputation for its innovative commissions and collaborations, which include world premieres of works by John Tavener, James MacMillan and Harrison Birtwistle. The choir regularly performs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestra of the 18th Century under Frans Bruggen and The SchΓΆnberg Ensemble, and have released a steady stream of award winning recordings. Sarah dips into the choir's archive throughout the week, sharing interpretations of music by the Dutch composer Sweelinck, as well as Rossini, Palestrina and Poulenc, a composer who wrote music especially for the choir.

Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de pΓ©nitence
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Eric Ericson (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Wed 12 Oct 2016 09:00

Music Played

  • FranΓ§ois-Joseph Gossec

    Tambourin (Le Triomphe de la Republique)

    Music Arranger: Charles Gerhardt. Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Gerhardt.
    • James Galway - Celebrating 70 - A collection of Personal Favourites.
    • RCA.
    • 3.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes: Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
    • 6.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in E flat major, Op.23 no.6

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • DECCA.
  • MY FAVOURITE...18th century overtures

    • Michael Haydn

      Der Bussende Sunder (Overture)

      Orchestra: Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.
      • CPO.
  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Septet in E flat major, Op 65

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Edward Elgar

    Great is the Lord, Op.67

    Performer: Jonathan Vaughn. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.
    • NAXOS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Cello Concerto in D minor, RV407

    Performer: Roel Dieltiens. Ensemble: Ensemble Explorations. Director: Roel Dieltiens.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Bitte schon! (Polka)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • Decca.
  • KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Concerto for 2 violins in D minor: I. Vivace

      Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Herman Krebbers. Ensemble: Swiss Romande Soloists. Conductor: Arpad GΓ©recz.
  • KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.2

    • °Υ°ωΓ€»ε

      ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 UK Theme

      Music Arranger: Fritz Spiegl. Music Arranger: Manfred Arlan. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.
      • LPO.
  • KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Kurt Weill

      Surabaya Jonny

      Singer: Lotte Lenya. Ensemble: Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Maurice Levine.
      • SONY.
  • Erno Dohnanyi

    Widmung, Op 13 No 1

    Performer: Martin Roscoe.
    • Dohnanyi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1: Martin Roscoe.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE

    • Jean‐Philippe Rameau

      Les Boreades, Act 4: Entree de Polymnie

      Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
      • Rameau: Une Symphonie Imaginaire: Musiciens du Louvre/Minkowski.
      • Archiv.
      • 16.
  • Franz Schubert

    Adagio and Rondo concertante, D 487

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    The Ruler of the Spirits, Op 27

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.
    • Weber: Overtures: Sawallisch.
    • EMI.
    • 2.
  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Netherlands Chamber Choir

    • Francis Poulenc

      Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence

      Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Eric Ericson.
      • GLOBE.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Capriccio.
  • Michael Haydn

    Symphony in F major, P.32

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • CHANDOS.
  • FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin

    Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23

    Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Perahia Plays Chopin.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 1.
  • Fulvio Caldini

    Clockwork Toccata Op.68c

    Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • Channel.

By Association

Answer: Johann Strauss Jr. and Arnold Schoenberg

The music played

J. Strauss Jr. (arr. Schoenberg)
Kaiser-Waltz
Linos Ensemble
CAPRICCIO

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