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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo) in Mozart: Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro); Faure: Nocturnes (selection). Plus Schubert.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Vivaldi, Concert for the Prince of Poland, performed by the Academy of Ancient Music: HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907230.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Swedish mezzo soprano Anne Sofie von Otter - in Mozart (Voi che sapete from The Marriage of Figaro) and Schumann (Frauenliebe und Leben, Op.42).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Michael Rosen, children's novelist, broadcaster, poet and former Children's Laureate. Today he introduces the first piece of classical music that he remembers hearing and a piece that makes him laugh.

11am
Faure: Nocturnes (selection)
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review

Also in this hour

Schubert
Symphony No.6 in C, D589
Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra
Gunter Wand (conductor)
RCA GD 60098.

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Two-part Invention No 8 in F, BWV 780

    Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA66746.

  • 9.01am: Sarah鈥檚 CD of the Week

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Violin Concerto in E flat 'La tempesta di mare', Op 8 No 5, RV 253

      Performers: The Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (violin and director)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907230.

  • Emin Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Aram Khachaturian (conductor)

    • DECCA 417 737-2.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31

    Performers: Martha Argerich (piano)

    • DG 415 836-2.

  • 9.30am: Artist of the Week - Anne Sofie von Otter

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Voi che sapete (The Marriage of Figaro)

      Performers: Anne Sofie von Otter (Cherubino), Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, James Levine (conductor)

      • DG 477 7077.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Concerto for Cello no 1 in A minor, Op. 33

    Performers: Leonard Rose聽(cello), Philadelphia Orchestra, Eugene Ormandy (conductor)聽

    • SONY聽SBK 48276.

  • 10.00am: Artist of the Week - Anne Sofie von Otter

    • Robert Schumann

      Frauenliebe und Leben, Op 42

      Performers: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

      • DG 445 881-2.

  • 10.30am: Michael Rosen鈥檚 Choices

    • William Walton

      Facade (a selection: Polka, Jodelling Song, Scotch Rhapsody, Popular Song, Fox trot: Old S

      Performers: Eleanor Bron and Richard Stilgoe (narrators), Nash Ensemble, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)

      • HYPERION 67239.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D, 'The Clock' (Andante)

    Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 429 776-2.

  • 11am: Building a Library Choice

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Nocturnes (selection)

      Performers: Germaine Thyssens-Valentin (piano)

      • TESTAMENT SBT1262.

  • 11.21am

    • Franz Schubert

      Symphony No 6 in C, D589

      Performers: Cologne Radio Symphony Orchestra, G眉nter Wand (conductor)

      • RCA GD 60098.

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  • Mon 14 Nov 2011 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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