Thursday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Londonderry Air: The Music of Percy Grainger; Sarah's Essential Choice: Ireland: Piano Concerto in E flat.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: "Londonderry Air: The Music of Percy Grainger" - John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir and the English Country Gardiner Orchestra: PHILIPS 4466572
9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, conductor Mark Elder
10.30am
On St David's Day, the Essential Classics guest is one of the most famous Welsh politicians of our times, Lord Kinnock.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Ireland
Piano Concerto in E flat
Eric Parkin (piano)
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor)
Chandos CHAN 8461.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance no.7
Orchestrator: Schmeling Performers: Vienna Philharmonic, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 410 615-2.
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Enrique Granados
Allegro de concierto
Performers: Garrick Ohlsson (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67846.
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9.10: Sarah's CD of the Week
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Percy Grainger
Irish Tune from County Derry
Performers: Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- PHILIPS 446 657-2.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
String Quartet in F (arr. of Piano Sonata in E, op.14 no.1)
Performers: Gewandhaus Quartet
- NCA 60139.
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9.30: Artist of the Week - Mark Elder
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Claude Debussy
Les Tierces Altern茅es & G茅n茅ral Lavine 鈥� Excentric
Arranger: Colin Matthews Performers: Hall茅, Mark Elder (conductor)
- HALLE CD HLL 7513.
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George Frideric Handel
'Lascia la spina', from Il trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno
Performers: Lucy Crowe (soprano), English Concert, Harry Bicket (conductor)
- HARMONI MUNDI HMU 907559.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu no.4 in A flat, D899.4
Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)
- DG 00289 479 0014.
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Bernard Herrmann
'Blindness' from the soundtrack to On Dangerous Ground
Performers: City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra, Paul Bateman (conductor)
- SILVA SCREEN FILMXCD 308.
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9.59: Artist of the Week - Mark Elder
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Arnold Bax
Spring Fire
Performers: Hall茅, Mark Elder (conductor)
- HALLE CD HLL 7528.
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10.30: Neil Kinnock's Choices
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Richard Wagner - 'Begl眉ckt darf nun dich' ('Pilgrims' Chorus') from Tannh盲user
Performers: Leipzig Radio Choir, Dresden Staatskapelle, Silvio Varviso (conductor)
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Max Bruch
Violin Concerto no.1 in G minor, op.26 鈥� finale
Performers: Nigel Kennedy (violin), English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate (conductor)
- EMI CDC 7 49663 2.
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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John Ireland
Piano Concerto in E flat
Performers: Eric Parkin (piano), London Philharmonic Orchestra, Bryden Thomson (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 8461.
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Maurice Ravel
String Quartet in F
Performers: Quatuor Eb猫ne
- VIRGIN 50999 519045 2 4.
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