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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including performances from the Essential CD of the Week, a recording of Holst's orchestral works, and by the Artist of the Week, the choir The Sixteen.

A selection of music including Holst's A Somerset Rhapsody, Op.21 No.2, from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording of Holst's orchestral works.

9.30am
Performances by the Artist of the Week, the choir The Sixteen: Bainton (And I Saw a New Heaven); Purcell (Quam multi sunt hostes mei); Britten (Rejoice in the Lamb). Also in this hour, a mystery piece for you to guess.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is historian David Starkey. Today he introduces a piece by a great performer who is no longer with us, and a piece of music he would listen to on a journey.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Stravinsky: The Fairy's Kiss.
Cleveland Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor).
DG 449 205-2.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 11 Oct 2011 09:00

Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gigue in G, K574 (arr. for 4 bassoons)

    Performers: The Caliban Quartet

    • CBC RECORDS MVCD 1116 TRACK 23.
  • Liszt (after Wagner)

    Spinnerlied aus Der Fliegende Höllander, S440

    Performers: Daniel Barenboim (piano)

    • DG 00289 477 9525 CD 21 TRACK 2.
  • Gustav Holst

    A Somerset Rhapsody Op.21' 2

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

    Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.553696 TRACK 1.
  • Johann Strauss II - On the Beautiful Blue Danube, op.314

    Performers: Johann Strauss Orchestra of Vienna, Willi Boskovsky (conductor)

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo from Symphony in E flat

    Performers: Columbia Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

    • SONY SM2K 46294 CD 1 TRACK 2.
  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK

    • Bainton

      And I Saw a New Heaven

      Performers: The Sixteen, Robert Quinney (organ), Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16014 TRACK 9.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Sonata in A for violin and piano (op. posth, one mvt only)

    Performers: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cédric Tiberghien (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67820 TRACK 8.
  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK

    • Henry Purcell

      Quam multi sunt hostes mei

      Performers: Mark Dobell (tenor), Stuart Young (bass) The Sixteen, David Miller (theorbo), Alastair Ross (organ), Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR 16069 TRACK 1.
    • Benjamin Britten

      Rejoice in the Lamb

      Performers: The Sixteen (solos: Carys Lane, Deborah Miles-Johnson, 
, Simon Berridge, Simon Birchall), Margaret Phillips (organ), Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16006 TRACKS 9–14.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Waltz in F, Op.34 No.3

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67849 TRACK 4.
  • Duke Ellington

    Concerto for Cootie

    Performers: Cootie Williams (trumpet), Duke Ellington and his Orchestra

    • BLUEBIRD 5659-2-RB CD 1 TRACK 7.
  • Frédéric Chopin

    Polonaise in A flat, op.53 ('Héroïque')

    Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano)

    • RCA GD60822 CD 6 TRACK 6.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Gloria, from 'Nelson Mass', Hob 22 no.11

    Performers: Felicity Lott (soprano), Carolyn Watkinson (alto), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), The English Concert and Choir, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 423 097-2 TRACKS 2–4.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Fairy's Kiss

    Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, Oliver Knussen (conductor)

    • DG 449 205-2 TRACKS 4–18.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto for flute, oboe d'amore, viola d'amore, strings and continuo in E, TWB 53:E1

    Performers: Emmanuel Pahud (flute), Wolfram Christ (viola d’amore), Albrecht Mayer (oboe d’amore), Berliner Barock Solisten, Rainer Kussmaul (violin & director), EMI 5 034352 TRACKS 13-16

    • EMI 5 034352 TRACKS 13-16.

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  • Tue 11 Oct 2011 09:00

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