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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Modern; Artists of the Week: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured performing Mozart's Symphony No 38.

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery person.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the award-winning broadcast journalist Hugh Sykes. Hugh began working in radio in the early 1970s, then after a stint in local TV he spent ten years on 鶹Լ Radio 4's Today programme. He went on to front PM on Radio 4 and his reporting has taken him all over the world, from China and Palestine to South Africa and Northern Ireland. He talks to Sarah about the dangers and delights of delivering features from the front line and chooses a selection of his favourite classical music.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Sarah places Music in Time, turning to the Modern period. She explores how composers often prepared big orchestral scores by writing piano duet versions first, and the great demand for such duets in the early 20th century.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Schubert's song Litanei, D343, from a pair of singers with a teacher-pupil relationship.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is one of America's finest orchestras, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble renowned especially for the warm sound of its impressive brass section. Every day this week Sarah will be showcasing recordings the orchestra has made with some of the most celebrated conductors of the twentieth century, including a classic account of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Other highlights are Brahms' Fourth Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, Strauss's epic tone poem Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink, Rafael Kubelik in Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony, and Georg Solti conducting Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 'Pathétique'.

Mozart
Symphony No.38 in E flat, 'Prague'
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Rafael Kubelik (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Trad.

    My Sweetheart's like Venus (12 Welsh folksongs)

    Music Arranger: Gustav Holst. Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • COLLEGIUM.
  • Béla Bartók

    Hungarian Peasant Songs, BB 107 No.2

    Performer: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zoltán Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.
  • Carl Loewe

    Der Erlkonig

    Performer: Michael Gees. Singer: Christoph Prégardien.
    • CHALLENGE.
  • William Walton

    Partita

    Orchestra: Hallé. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • 鶹Լ LEGENDS.
  • Erik Satie

    Le Piccadilly

    Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Satie: Avant-Dernieres Pensees: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 12.
  • Biagio Marini

    Passacalio

    Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • Franghiz Ali-Zadeh

    Fantasie

    Performer: Zsófia Boros.
    • ECM.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Song to the Moon (Rusalka)

    Singer: Kate Royal. Orchestra: The English National Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.
    • Kate Royal: Midsummer Night.
    • EMI.
    • 5.
  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No. 1

    • Gustav Mahler

      Symphony No.2 in C minor 'Resurrection': II. Andante Moderato

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
      • EMI.
  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No. 2

    • Egon Wellesz

      Symphony No.6, Op.95: II. Leicht bewegt

      Orchestra: Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gottfried Rabl.
      • CPO.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Jesu, meine Freude, BWV610

    Music Arranger: Sirena Recorder Quartet. Ensemble: Sirena Recorder Quartet.
    • BIS.
  • Music in TIme: Modern

    • Gustav Holst

      The Planets: Mars; Venus

      Performer: Anthony Goldstone. Performer: Caroline Clemmow.
      • DIVINE ART.
  • Double Take

    • Franz Schubert

      Am Tage aller Seelen [Litanei auf das Fest Aller Seelen] D.343

      Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Helmut Deutsch.
      • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Franz Schubert

    Litanei, D.343

    Performer: Gerald Moore. Singer: Dietrich Fischer‐Dieskau.
    • EMI.
  • Daniel Bacheler

    Galliard

    Performer: Paul O’Dette.
    • Daniel Bacheler: The Bachelar's Delight: Paul O'Dette.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 3.
  • Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No. 38 'Prague'

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubelík.
      • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Canon No.25 for strings

    Ensemble: Fred Sherry String Quartet.
    • NAXOS.
  • Rebecca Clarke

    Sonata in E minor for viola and piano

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
    • MYRIOS CLASSICS.
  • Jonathan Dove

    Into thy hands

    Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • SIGNUM.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Person

The mystery person was Rusalka - the daughter of a water-goblin, who gives her name to an opera by Dvorak.

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