Wednesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week Steven Isserlis (cello) in Beethoven: Andante and Variations in D, WoO44 No 2; Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Octet in E flat.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Robert Johnson: The Prince's Almain and other dances for lute (Nigel North).
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, cellist Steven Isserlis. Isserlis is an illustrious chamber musician and today we hear him in two chamber masterworks: Beethovens Andante and Variations in D, WoO44 no.2; and Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is weather presenter Sian Lloyd, who discusses the first classical recording she bought herself. Sian also reveals which instrument she would choose to play if she were a virtuoso, and the piece she would most like to perform on it.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Mendelssohn:
Octet in E flat, op.20
Vienna Octet
DECCA 421 093-2.
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Percy Grainger
Father and Daughter
Performers: Monteverdi Choir, English Country Gardiner Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- PHILIPS 446 657-2.
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Dohnanyi
Rhapsody in C, op.11 no.3
Performers: Martin Roscoe (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67871.
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9.18: Sarah's CD of the Week
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Robert Johnson
The Prince's Almain, Masque and Coranto
Performers: Nigel North (lute)
- NAXOS 8.572178.
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William Walton
Crown Imperial
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Andr茅 Previn (conductor)
- TELARC CD-80125.
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Ferde Grof茅
Cloudburst, from Grand Canyon Suite
Performers: New York Philharmonic, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)
- CBS MK 42264.
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9.40: Artist of the Week - Steven Isserlis
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Beethoven arr. Isserlis
Andante & Variations in D [originally for mandolin and harpsichord]
Performers: Steven Isserlis (cello), Maggie Cole (harpsichord)
- RCA 09026 68928 2.
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Maurice Ravel
Trio for piano, violin and cello
Performers: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano), Joshua Bell (violin), Steven Isserlis (cello)
- DECCA 425 860-2.
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10.30: Sian Lloyd's Choices
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George Frideric Handel
The Arrival of the Queen of Sheba, from Solomon, Act 3
Performers: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)
- ARCHIV 415 518-2.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cherubical Hymn from Liturgy of St John Chrysostom
Performers: USSR Ministry of Culture Chamber Choir, Valeri Polyansky (conductor)
- MELODIYA 74321 25186 26.
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Felix Mendelssohn
Octet in E flat, op.20
Performers: The Vienna Octet
- DECCA 421 093-2.
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11.30:
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Richard Strauss
Concerto in D for Oboe and Small Orchestra
Performers: Lothar Koch (oboe), Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
- DG 477 9814.
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