Friday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: soprano Soile Isokoskil; Entrepreneur and philanthropist Stephanie Shirleyl; Sarah's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: The Bells.
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.
10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today, she chooses music featuring a great performer of the 20th century, and Sarah acts as a personal shopper offering a piece which she hopes Dame Stephanie will enjoy.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Rachmaninov
The Bells
Natali Troitskaya (soprano)
Ryszard Karczykowski (tenor)
Tom Krause (baritone)
Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chorus
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
DECCA 414 455-2.
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Joseph Martin Kraus
Elmire's Dance from Soliman II
Performers: Concerto Koln & Sarband
- ARCHIV 474 992-2.
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George Frideric Handel
Suite in G minor (possibly the overture to his lost opera Nero HWV453)
reconstr. Holman Performers: The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (director)
- HYPERION CDH55324.
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9.11am: Sarah's CD of the Week
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Franz Liszt
Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Annees de Pelerinage, 2eme Annee - Italie)
Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)
- DECCA 444 851-2.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento, K.213
Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Wind Soloists
- TELDEC 2564 60866-2.
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Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin - Grand Waltz (Pavillon d'Armide, Op.29)
Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Viktor Fedotov (conductor)
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9.39am: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski
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Toivo Kuula
Sinikan lualu, Op.16 No.1; Marjatan laulu, Op.8 No.2
Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marita Viitasalo (piano)
- FINLANDIA 3984 23401-2.
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9.47am
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K.299
Performers: James Galway (flute), Marisa Robles (harp), London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
- RCA 09026 61789-2.
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Claude Debussy
Preludes, Book 1 Nos 5-8
Performers: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)
- DECCA 452 022-2.
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10.30am: Dame Stephanie Shirley's Choice
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Trad. arr Britten
The Foggy, Foggy Dew
Performers: Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano)
- LONDON 430 063-2.
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10.39am: Sarah's Personal Shopper piece for Dame Stephanie Shirley
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Amy Beach
Romance, Op.23
Performers: Paul Barritt (violin), James Lisney (piano)
- BIS CD 1245.
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Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Voyevoda, Op.78
Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.57068.
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Sergey Rachmaninov
The Bells
Performers: Natali Troitskaya (soprano), Ryszard Karczykowski (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone), Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chorus, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
- DECCA 414 455-2.
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Gaetano Donizetti
Andante sostenuto in F major
Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), Ursula Holliger (harp)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94054.
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11.41am
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Louis Couperin
Quatrieme Concert Royal
Performers: Les Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (director)
- Alia Vox AVS9840.
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