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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Londonderry Air: The Music of Percy Grainger; Sarah's Essential Choice: Bartok: Piano Concerto No 2.

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
The Essential Classics guest is the politician Lord Kinnock, who introduces his essential pieces of classical music.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Bartok
Piano Concerto no.2, Sz 95
Andras Schiff (piano)
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
Teldec 0630-13158-2.

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Fri 2 Mar 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Polka from Jazz Suite no.1

    Performers: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 433 702-2.

  • Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier - F锚te polonaise

    Performers: L鈥橭rchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet

  • 9.12: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Percy Grainger

      Shallow Brown

      Performers: Lynette Alcantara (alto), Monteverdi Choir, English Country Gardiner Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 446 657-2.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto for 2 mandolins, strings and continuo, RV 532

    Performers: James Tyler (mandolin 1), Robin Jeffrey (mandolin 2), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 415 674-2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in D minor, K397

    Performers: Maria Jo茫o Pires (piano)

    • REGIS RRC1382.

  • 9.40: Artist of the Week - Mark Elder

    • Butterworth

      The Banks of Green Willow

      Performers: Hall茅, Mark Elder (conductor)

      • HALLE CD HLL 7503.

  • Franz Schubert

    An die Musik D.547

    Singer: Elly Ameling. Performer: Dalton Baldwin.

    Performers: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano)

    • DECCA 430 096-2.

  • 9.52: Artist of the Week - Mark Elder

    • Jean Sibelius

      Symphony no.1 in E minor, op.39

      Performers: Hall茅, Mark Elder (conductor)

      • HALLE CD 7514.

  • 10.30: Neil Kinnock's Choices

    • Coleridge Taylor

      Hiawatha's Wedding Feast 鈥� conclusion

      Performers: Chorus and Orchestra of the Welsh National Opera, Kenneth Alwyn (conductor)

      • ARGO 430 356-2.

  • Grainger (after Richard Strauss)

    Ramble on Love

    Performers: Ronald Stevenson (piano)

    • APR 5630.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • B茅la Bart贸k

      Piano Concerto no.2

      Performers: Andr谩s Schiff (piano), Budapest Festival Orchestra, Iv谩n Fischer (conductor)

      • TELDEC 0630-13158-2.

  • 11.30:

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Gloria in D, RV 589

      Performers: Lynda Russell (soprano 1), Gillian Fisher (soprano 2), Alison Browner (alto), The Sixteen, The Symphony of Harmony and Invention, Harry Christophers (conductor)

      • CORO COR16042.

Broadcast

  • Fri 2 Mar 2012 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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