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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: soprano Soile Isokoski. Grieg: Songs. Zemlinsky: Waldesgesprach; Sarah's Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Piano Trio No 1.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt - Favourite Piano Works performed by Jorge Bolet.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Soile Isokoski (Songs by Grieg & Zemlinsky's Waldesgesprach).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today, she discusses film music which has particularly affected her and a piece of music that she would like to be remembered by.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49
Julia Fischer (violin)
Jonathan Gilad (piano)
Daniel Muller-Schott (cello)
PENTATONE PTC 5186 085.

3 hours

Last on

Tue 6 Mar 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Schop

    Nobelman

    Performers: Trio Settecento

    • CEDILLE CDR 90000 114.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Holberg Suite, Op.40

    Performers: Academy of St Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • HANNSLER 98.995.
  • 9.22: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Les Jeux d'eaux 脿 la Villa d'Este (Ann茅es de p猫lerinage, 3猫me Ann茅e Italie)

      Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

      • DECCA 444 851-2.
  • William Walton

    Crown Imperial

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Louis Fr茅maux (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 764201-2.
  • 9.43: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Edvard Grieg

      Solveigs Sang; Jegelsker dig; En svane

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marita Viitasalo (piano)

      • FINLANDIA 3984 23401-2.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in D major, Op.10 No.3 'Il Gardellino' [The Goldfinch]

    Performers: Eckart Haupt (flute), Dresden Baroque Soloists, Peter Schreier (conductor)

    • BERLIN CLASSICS 0013522BC.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Sonata in A minor, K.310

    Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

    • DG 477 5907.
  • 10.22: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Alexander von Zemlinsky

      奥补濒诲别蝉驳别蝉辫谤盲肠丑

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), G眉rzenich Orchester & Cologne Philharmonic, James Conlon (conductor)

      • EMI 557024-2.
  • 10.30: Dame Stephanie Shirley's Choices

    • Anton Karas

      Harry Lime Theme (The Third Man)

      Performer: Anton Karas.

      Performers: Anton Karas (zither)

      • DECCA 421 264-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Foundling Hospital Anthem (conclusion): IV The charitable shall be had; V Comfort them, O

    Performers: Gillian Fischer and Libby Crabtree (sopranos), Charles Brett (countertenor), John Elwes (tenor), Winchester Cathedral Choir, The Brandenburg Consort, David Hill (conductor)

    • DECCA 455041-2.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A minor, K.3

    Performers: Dejan Lazic (piano)

    • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA23407.
  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Piano Trio No.1 in D minor, Op.49

      Performers: Julia Fischer (violin), Jonathan Gilad (piano), Daniel M眉ller-Scott (cello)

      • PENTATONE PTC 5186 085.
  • Jules Massenet

    Aragonaise from Le Cid

    Performers: Eastman-Rochester Pops Orchestra, Frederick Fennell (conductor)

    • MERCURY 434 356-2.
  • 11.34am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No.49 in F minor, 'La Passione'

      Performers: Arion Baroque Orchestra, Gary Cooper (conductor)

      • EARLY MUSIC COM EMCCD-7769.

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  • Tue 6 Mar 2012 09:00

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