Thursday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Nash Ensemble in Britten: Movement for Wind Sextet and Mozart: Oboe Quartet, K370; Sarah's Essential Choice: Schumann: Carnaval.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Overtures: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado. DG 423 104-2.
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Nash Ensemble. Today we hear the ensemble in Britten's Movement for Wind Sextet, composed when he was just sixteen years old; and Mozart's Oboe Quartet K370, written for the eighteenth-century virtuoso oboist, Friedrich Ramm.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is actor and director Philip Franks, well known for his performances on stage and screen, including The Darling Buds of May, Heartbeat, Bleak House and numerous leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company. Today Philip reveals which composer he is especially fond of, as well as his favourite piece of music and a work he likes listening to when relaxing.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Schumann
Carnaval, op.9
Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
WARNER 63426.
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Dinicu
Hora staccato
Performers: Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet), Alexander Markovich (piano)
- TELDEC 9031-77705-2.
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9.03: Sarah's CD of the Week
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Felix Mendelssohn
Overture in C ('Trumpet Overture'), op.101
Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 423 104-2.
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Joseph Haydn
Fantasia in C for piano, Hob. XVII:4
Performers: Andras Schiff (piano)
- TELDEC 0630-17141-2.
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Claude Debussy
Danses sacr茅e et profane
Performers: Lisa Wellbaum (harp), The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)
- DG 471 614-2.
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9.30: Artists of the Week - The Nash Ensemble
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Benjamin Britten
Movement for Wind Sextet (flute, oboe, clarinet, bass clarinet, bassoon and horn)
Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Philippa Davies (flute), Gareth Hulse (oboe), Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael Harris (bass clarinet), Brian Wightman (bassoon), Richard Watkins (horn)
- HYPERION CDA66845.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Polonaise no.6 in A flat, op.53 ('H茅ro茂que')
Performers: Artur Rubinstein (piano)
- RCA GD 60822.
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Converse
Flivver Ten Million
Performers: Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra, JoAnn Falletta (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.559116.
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Gioachino Rossini
'Largo al factotum' from The Barber of Seville, Act 1 scene 1
Performers: Sesto Bruscantini (Figaro), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vittorio Gui (conductor)
- EMI 5 67762 2.
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Royer
La Marche des Scythes
Performers: Christophe Rousset (harpsichord)
- L鈥橭ISEAU-LYRE 436 127-2.
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10.15: Artists of the Week - The Nash Ensemble
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet, K370
Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Gareth Hulse (oboe), Marcia Crayford (violin), Roger Chase (viola), Christopher van Kampen (cello)
- VIRGIN VC 7 91074-2.
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10.30: Philip Franks' Choices
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041
Performers: Sigiswald Kuijken (violin and direction), La Petite Bande
- DHM GD77006.
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Arvo P盲rt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Performers: Tasmin Little (violin), Martin Roscoe (piano)
- EMI 5 75805 2.
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11.00: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Robert Schumann
Carnaval, op.9
Performers: Pierre-Laurent Aimard (piano)
- WARNER 2564 63426-2.
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Claude Debussy
String Quartet
Performers: Quatuor Eb猫ne
- VIRGIN 19045.
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