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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

With Sarah Walker. Musical challenge; Music in Time: the dulcian; Artists of the Week: The Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Strauss's Ein Heldenleben.

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: name a piece of music used in a film or TV programme.

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 ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ 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: Renaissance
Today Sarah is in the Renaissance period, exploring an early forerunner of the bassoon: the dulcian.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of Debussy's prelude, La fille aux cheveux de lin.

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 'PathΓ©tique'.

Richard Strauss
Ein Heldenleben
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

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Thu 2 Feb 2017 09:00
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Music Played

  • anon.

    Les Gentils Airs - Ou Airs Connus, Ajustee en duo: Tamborin

    Music Arranger: Jean‐Philippe Rameau. Performer: Peter Whelan. Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • LINN.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet in F major, K 370

    Performer: Alexei Ogrintchouk. Performer: Boris Brovtsyn. Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Kristina Blaumane.
    • BIS.

  • Joseph Martin Kraus

    Swedish Dance

    Performer: Ronald Brautigam.
    • BIS.

  • Kurt Atterberg

    A Varmland Rhapsody

    Orchestra: Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme JΓ€rvi.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Jean FranΓ§aix

    Tema con Variazioni

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Bradley Moore.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Charles Avison

    Concerto after Scarlatti No.3 in D minor

    Ensemble: CafΓ© Zimmermann.
    • ALPHA.

  • Harold Arlen

    Come Rain or Come Shine (St Louis Woman)

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Performer: David Fink. Performer: AndrΓ© Previn.
    • PHILIPS.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Improvisation No 8 in A minor

    Performer: Lucille Chung.
    • Stephen Hough's French Album.
    • hyperion.
    • 012.

  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No.1

    • Michael Flynn

      Tribute to Fritz

      Composer: Patrick Collins. Performer: Patrick Collins. Performer: Pete O'Brien. Ensemble: Cafe Orchestra.
      • GRAPEVINE.

  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No.2

    • Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan

      Allah Hoo Allah Hoo

      Singer: Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan.
      • Real World Records.

  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No.3

    • Aaron Copland

      Fanfare for the Common Man

      Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
      • CBS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    6 Songs Op.48: No.6 Busslied

    Performer: Iain Burnside. Singer: Roderick Williams.
    • SIGNUM CLASSICS.

  • Music in time: Renaissance

    • Giovanni ANtonion Bertoli

      Sonata VIII per fagotto solo

      Performer: Kathryn Cook. Performer: Wouter Verschuren.
      • CHALLENGE CLASSICS.

  • Camille Saint‐SaΓ«ns

    Bassoon Sonata, Op 168

    Performer: Ursula Leveaux. Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.

  • Double Take

    • Claude Debussy

      Preludes, Book I: La fille au cheveux de lin

      Performer: Pascal RogΓ©.
      • DECCA.

    • Claude Debussy

      Preludes, Book I: La fille au cheveux de lin

      Orchestrator: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: HallΓ©. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
      • HALLE.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite from Rinaldo: IV. Sinfonia

    Music Arranger: Simon Cox. Ensemble: Septura.
    • Music for Brass Septet - 2.
    • Naxos.
    • 28.

  • Artist of the Week: Chicago symphony Orchestra

    • Richard Strauss

      Ein Heldenleben

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
      • CSO Resound.

  • Henry Purcell

    Rejoice in the Lord alway, Z.49, 'Bell Anthem'

    Singer: Iestyn Davies. Singer: James Gilchrist. Singer: Neal Davies. Choir: Choir of St John’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: St John's Sinfonia. Director: Andrew Nethsingha.
    • My Beloved Spake: Anthems by Purcell and Humfrey.
    • Chandos.
    • 10.

Musical Challenge: Heard on Screen

The music played was the 18th variation from Rachmaninov's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, which was used in the 1993 film, Groundhog Day.

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  • Thu 2 Feb 2017 09:00
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