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).
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François-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.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in G minor, Op 23 No 5
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Rachmaninov: 24 Preludes: Ashkenazy.
- Decca.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in E flat major, Op.23 no.6
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- DECCA.
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MY FAVOURITE...18th century overtures
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Michael Haydn
Der Bussende Sunder (Overture)
Orchestra: Deutsche Kammerakademie Neuss. Conductor: Johannes Goritzki.- CPO.
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Camille SaintβSaΓ«ns
Septet in E flat major, Op 65
Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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Edward Elgar
Great is the Lord, Op.67
Performer: Jonathan Vaughn. Choir: Choir of St Johnβs College, Cambridge. Conductor: Christopher Robinson.- NAXOS.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Cello Concerto in D minor, RV407
Performer: Roel Dieltiens. Ensemble: Ensemble Explorations. Director: Roel Dieltiens.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Strauss II
Bitte schon! (Polka)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.- Decca.
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KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.1
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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.
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KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.2
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ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 UK Theme
Music Arranger: Fritz Spiegl. Music Arranger: Manfred Arlan. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: David Parry.- LPO.
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KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.3
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Kurt Weill
Surabaya Jonny
Singer: Lotte Lenya. Ensemble: Orchestra and Chorus. Conductor: Maurice Levine.- SONY.
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Erno Dohnanyi
Widmung, Op 13 No 1
Performer: Martin Roscoe.- Dohnanyi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1: Martin Roscoe.
- Hyperion.
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MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE
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JeanβPhilippe 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.
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Franz Schubert
Adagio and Rondo concertante, D 487
Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.- EMI.
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Carl Maria von Weber
The Ruler of the Spirits, Op 27
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.- Weber: Overtures: Sawallisch.
- EMI.
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ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Netherlands Chamber Choir
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Francis Poulenc
Quatre motets pour un temps de penitence
Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Eric Ericson.- GLOBE.
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Johann Strauss II
Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437
Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.- Capriccio.
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Michael Haydn
Symphony in F major, P.32
Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.- CHANDOS.
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FrΓ©dΓ©ric Chopin
Ballade no.1 in G minor Op.23
Performer: Murray Perahia.- Perahia Plays Chopin.
- Sony Classical.
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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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- Wed 12 Oct 2016 09:00ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 3