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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall; Tom Stuart-Smith selects his favourite music. 11.00am Sarah's Essential Choice: Vivaldi: Gloria.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Poulenc chamber music from Pascal Roge and friends: DECCA 4757097

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the instrumentalist, composer and conductor Jordi Savall.

10.30am
In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest is the award-winning landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith. Tom Stuart-Smith was a child chorister and plays the violin, so music has always been a passion for him. His favourite composers range from Bach to Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Wagner, Messiaen and Schoenberg.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Vivaldi: Gloria.
Teresa Berganza (mezzo soprano)
Lucia Valentini-Terrani (alto)
New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI 567002.

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Wed 23 May 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces Book 1 Op. 12 - Norwegian Melody

    Performers: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)

    • EMI 5572962.

  • Ole Bull

    From 'Polacca Guerriera'

    Performers: Arve Tellefsen (violin), Bergen Symphony Orchestra, Karsten Anderson (conductor)

    • NKRCD 500082.

  • 9.10: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Francis Poulenc

      Sonata for oboe and piano

      Performers: Maurice Bourgue (oboe), Pascal Roge (piano)

      • DECCA 475 7097.

  • Alexis Emmanuel Chabrier - Habanera

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

  • 9.30: Artist of the Week - Jordi Savall

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto in B minor for 4 violins and cello, Op. 3 No. 10 / RV580

      Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

      • ALIA VOX AV9835.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Dolly Suite Op. 56

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Carlo Maria Giulini (conductor)

    • DG 449 8462.

  • 9.55: Artist of the Week - Jordi Savall

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Vespers - Sancta Maria

      Performers: La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall (conductor)

      • ASTREE ES 9936.

  • Couperin and Marais

    Les Concerts Royaux

    Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

    • ALIA VOX AV9842.

  • 10.30: Tom Stuart-Smith's Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      String Quartet No. 13 in B flat, Op. 130 (Cavatina)

      Performers: The Lindsay Quartet

      • ASV CDDCA1117.

  • Richard Wagner - Tristan und Isolde, Act II - Love Duet "O sink herneider"

    Performers: Isolde: Margaret Price (soprano), Tristan: Rene Kollo (tenor), Dresden Staatskapelle, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G K.284

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • VIRGIN 5619612.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Gloria

      Performers: Teresa Berganza聽(mezzo-soprano), Lucia Valentini-Terrani聽(alto), Leslie Pearson聽(harpsichord), Norman Jones聽(cello), Leslie Pearson聽(organ), New Philharmonia Chorus and Orchestra, Riccardo Muti (conductor)

      • EMI 5669872.

  • Henri Dutilleux

    Sonatine for flute and piano

    Performers: Timothy Hutchins (flute) and Janet Creaser Hutchins (piano)

    • DECCA 4520032.

  • Georges Bizet

    L'Arlesienne Suite No.1

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • NA脧VE V5130.

Broadcast

  • Wed 23 May 2012 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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