Friday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Katia and Marielle Labeque. Poulenc: Sonata. Milhaud: Scaramouche Suite; Sarah's Essential Choice: Haydn: Symphony No 94 (Surprise).
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Avison's 12 Concerti Grossi after Scarlatti, performed by the Avison Ensemble: DIVINE ART DDA21213
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the French piano duo - sisters Katia and Marielle Labeque - in Poulenc (Sonata for piano duet) and Milhaud (Scaramouche Suite for 2 pianos).
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Professor Tom Wright, a leading New Testament Scholar and former Bishop of Durham. Today he introduces a work that reminds him of a particular place and Sarah acts as personal shopper with a piece she hopes Professor Wright will like.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Haydn
Symphony No.94 -Surprise
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
PHILIPS 432286 2.
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Giuseppe Baldassare Sammartini
Finale from Concerto in F major Con.195 for descant recorder
Performers: Horacio Franco (recorder), The Georgian Chamber Orchestra
- GUILD GMCD 7169.
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Gustav Holst
Suite no 1 in E flat for wind band
Performers: Dallas Wind Symphony , Howard Dunn (conductor)
- REFERENCE RECORDINGS RR39CD.
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9.04am: Sarah's CD of the Week
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Avison-Scarlatti
Concerto Grosso no 5 in D minor
Performers: The Avison Ensemble
- DIVINE ART DDA21213.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
The blue bird
Performers: The Choir of New College Oxford, Edward Higginbottom (director)
- DECCA 4668702.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Masques et Bergamasques op 112
Performers: English Sinfonia, Charles Groves (conductor)
- IMP PCD 926.
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Locke
Pavan and Sarabande from Broken Consort in D 5.57
Performers: Palladian Ensemble
- LINN CKD010.
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9.57am: Artists of the Week - The Lab猫ques
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Jesu, Joy of Mans Desiring from Cantata BWV 147
Performers: Katia and Marielle Lab猫que (piano 鈥� 4 hands)
- SONY CLASSICAL SK 48381.
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Francis Poulenc
Sonata for two pianos
Performers: Katia and Marielle Lab猫que (pianos)
- PHILIPS 426 284 2.
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Gioachino Rossini
String sonata no 3
Performers: I Musici
- PHILIPS 456 331 2.
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10.20am: Artists of the Week - The Lab猫ques
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Darius Milhaud
Scaramouche
Performers: Katia and Marielle Lab猫que (pianos)
- PHILIPS 426 284 2.
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10.30am: Dr Tom Wright's Choices
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Jean Sibelius
First movement: Violin Concerto
Performers: Tasmin Little (violin), Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)
- EMI CDEMX2203.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Jezus es a kufarok (Jesus and the traders)
Performers: Hungarian Radio and Television Chorus, Janos Ferencsik (conductor)
- HUNGAROTON HCD 12352.
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11am: Two Minutes Silence
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Benjamin Britten
Fanfare for St Edmundsbury
Performers: London Brass
- TELDEC 2292464422.
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11:06am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no 94 'Surprise'
Performers: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Colin Davis (conductor)
- PHILIPS 432286 2.
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Franz Schubert
Punschlied D.277
Performers: Horst Laubenthal and Peter Schreier (tenors), Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone), Gerald Moore (piano)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94082.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No 12 in A flat op 26
Performers: Emil Gilels (piano)
- DG 453 221 2.
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