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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: soprano Soile Isokoski in songs from Finland and Sibelius's Luonnotar; Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Violin Concerto.

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 from Finland & Sibelius' Luonnotar).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest today on International Women's Day is entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today, she offers a piece that makes her glad to be alive and music that she feels should be more widely known.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Beethoven
Violin Concerto
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)
EMI CDM 566900-2.

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Thu 8 Mar 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Rameau arr. Hekkema

    Fanfarinette (Nouvelles pieces de clavecin, 1728)

    Performers: Calefax Reed Quintet

    • MDG 619 1374-2.

  • 9.02: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Gnomenreigen (Etude de concert, S.145 No.2)

      Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

      • DECCA 444 851-2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein kleiner, h眉bscher Vogel (Liebeslieder Walzer, Op.52)

    Performers: The Prince Consort, Philip Fowke & Alisdair Hogarth (piano duet)

    • LINN CKD382.

  • 9.09am

    • Joseph Haydn

      String Quartet in C major, Op.33 No.3 'The Bird'

      Performers: Jerusalem Quartet

      • HMX 2962030.

  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Erkki Melartin

      Mirjamin laulu II & Mirjamin laulu I

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

      • ONDINE ODE 963-2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Ein Madchen oder Weibchen (Die Zauberflote, Act II)

    Performers: Dietrich Fisher-Dieskau (baritone), RIAS Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Fricsay (conductor)

    • DG 459 497-2.

  • 9.42am

    • Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka

      Jota Aragonese (Spanish Overture No.1)

      Performers: USSR Symphony Orchestra, Evgeny Svetlanov (conductor)

      • REGIS RRC 1142.

  • Mendelssohn arr. W.T. Best

    War March of the Preists (Athalie)

    Performers: Thomas Trotter (organ of the Royal Albert Hall)

    • REGENT REGCD322.

  • 10.00am

    • Stanford

      Fantasy No.2 for clarinet and string quartet

      Performers: Thea King (clarinet), Britten String Quartet

      • HYPERION CDH55076.

  • Peter Maxwell Davies

    Farewell to Stromness

    Performers: Peter Maxwell Davies (piano)

    • UNICORN KANCHANA DKP(CD)9070.

  • 10.20: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Jean Sibelius

      Luonnotar, Op.70

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Leif Segerstam (conductor)

      • ONDINE ODE 1080-5.

  • 10.30: Dame Stephanie Shirley's Choices

    • Edward Elgar

      The first two movements from the Cello Concerto in E minor, Op.85

      Performers: Jacqueline du Pr茅 (cello), London Symphony Orchestra, John Barbirolli (conductor)

      • EMI CDC 747329-2.

  • Fanny Mendelssohn

    Schwanenlied, Op.1 No.1; Wanderlied, Op.1 No.2; Warum sind den die Rosen so blass, Op.1 No

    Performers: Susan Gritton (soprano), Eugene Asti (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67110.

  • Hadley

    One Morning in Spring

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Adrian Boult (conductor)

    • LYRITA SRCD.245.

  • 11.05: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Concerto

      Performers: Itzhak Perlman (violin), Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 566900-2.

  • 11.50am

    • Tcherepnin

      La Princesse Lointaine - prelude

      Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

      • NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037.

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