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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Artist of the Week: the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Copland's Appalachian Spring; Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 - The CD Review Building a Library recommendation.

In the week which celebrates the 200th anniversary of the birth of Charles Dickens, Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the biographer Claire Tomalin, who wrote highly acclaimed biographies of Mary Wollstonecraft, Katherine Mansfield, Jane Austen, Samuel Pepys and Thomas Hardy before turning her attention to Dickens. In 1990 she had published The Invisible Woman, an account of Dickens's shadowy relationship with the actress Ellen Ternan, which won several major literary awrds including the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography and the Hawthornden Prize, before last year tackling the man himself in Charles Dickens: A Life, which was shortlisted for the 2011 Costa Biography Award.
Before embarking on her highly successful career as a biographer, Claire Tomalin worked in publishing and journalism, becoming literary editor of the The New Statesman magazine and The Sunday Times newspaper. She is married to the playwright and novelist Michael Frayn.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Voyage Magnifique - Schubert Impromptus performed by Maria Jo脙拢o Pires.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Copland: Appalachian Spring).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is biographer Claire Tomalin, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she reveals the first piece of classical music she remembers hearing, and the performers and pieces that stimulated her interest in classical music.

11am
Rachmaninov: Symphony No.2.
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

Presenter: Sarah Walker.
Producer: Richard Denison.

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Music Played

  • Anon.

    Anon. - Petits riens

    Performers: All茅gorie

  • 9.02: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Franz Schubert

      Impromptu, D.899 No.2 in E flat

      Performers: Maria Joao Pires (piano)

      • DG 457 550-2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on Greensleeves

    Performers: Sinfonia of London, John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI CDC 747537-2.

  • 9.13am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No.50 in C major

      Performers: English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director)

      • ARCHIV 463 731-2.

  • 9.30am

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Swan Lake, Act III: Scene; Neopolitan Dance

      Performers: Suisse Romande Orchestra, Ernest Ansermet

      • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94031.

  • 9.36: Artist of the Week - The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Romance No.2 in F major, Op.50

      Performers: Gil Shaham (violin), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

      • DG 449 923-2.

  • 9.47: Artist of the Week - The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • Aaron Copland

      Appalachian Spring 鈥� suite from the ballet

      Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

      • DG 427 335-2.

  • 10.12am

    • Enescu

      Romanian Rhapsody No.1

      Performers: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 61503-2.

  • Trad.

    Annie Laurie

    Performers: Andreas Scholl (countertenor), Stacey Shames (harp)

    • DECCA 468 499-2.

  • 10.30: Claire Tomalin's Choices

    • Matthew Herbert

      When Death to either shall come; I dare not ask a kiss; The Lake Isle of Innisfree

      Performers: James Gilchrist (tenor), David Owen Norris (piano)

      • LINN CKD335.

  • 10.42am: Claire Tomalin's Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      String Quartet, Op.59 No.1 in F 'Razumovsky' (1st movement)

      Performers: Amadeus Quartet

      • DG 423 473-2.

  • Halvorsen

    March of the Boyars

    Performers: Iceland Symphony Orchestra, Bjarte Engeset (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.557017.

  • 11am

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Symphony No.2

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

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  • Mon 6 Feb 2012 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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