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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Lute duets played by Jakob Lindberg and Paul O'Dette; Artist of the Week: Steven Osborne; Essential Choice: Beethoven: Piano Concerto, Op 37.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Lute Duets performed by Jakob Lindberg and Paul O'Dette (lutes) BIS 267

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Steven Osborne.

10.30am
As the Jewish new year approaches, Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics this week is Baroness Julia Neuberger, one of Britain's most prominent liberal rabbis, social reformer and member of the House of Lords since June 2004. A former Liberal Democrat, she became a crossbench peer in September 2011 on becoming Senior Rabbi to the West London Synagogue (a Movement for Reform Judaism synagogue).
The daughter of a German Jewish immigrant family, she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and obtained her Rabbinic Diploma at Leo Baeck College, London, where she taught for 20 years from 1977 to 1997. She was Britain's second female rabbi, and the first to have her own synagogue (the South London Liberal Synagogue). Since January 2007 she has been president of the Liberal Judaism movement.
Baroness Neuberger has always undertaken many voluntary and philanthropic roles. She was Chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1992 to 1997 and Chief Executive of The King's Fund 1997-2004. Several of her books deal with the ethics of healthcare and dying. The Moral State We're In, a study of morality and public policy in modern Britain, was published in 2005.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Beethoven: Piano Concerto in C minor, Op 37
Murray Perahia (piano)
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor)
CBS 39814.

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Last on

Tue 11 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Walton arr. Muir Matheson

    Music Plays (from A Shakespeare Suite – Richard III)

    Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, William Walton (conductor)

    • EMI 5 65007-2.
  • Walton arr. Elgar Howarth

    Prelude and 'Spitfire' Fugue (The First of the Few)

    Performers: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble

    • DECCA 430 369-2.
  • 9.10 [00'10"]: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • John Danyel

      Passymeasure Galliard

      Performers: Jakob Lindberg and Paul O’Dette (lutes)

      • BIS 267.
  • 9.14 [00'14"]:

    • Robert Schumann

      Manfred Overture

      Performers: Philharmonia Orchestra, Christian Thielemann (conductor)

      • DG 453 482-2.
  • 9.31 [00'31"]:

    • George Frideric Handel

      Oboe Concerto in G minor, HWV 287

      Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 426 082-2.
  • 9.42 [00'42"]:

    • Falla

      Interlude and Dance (La vida breve)

      Performers: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

      • DECCA 466 128-2.
  • 9.51 [00'51"]:

    • Today's Brainteaser Answer

      Critics' Corner

      Performers: Details of the music related to today’s brainteaser will appear on this page at 12pm. The answer will appear at the bottom of the page.

  • Tansman

    Sonatine

    Performers: Karen Geoghegan (bassoon), Philip Fisher (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10521.
  • 10.13 [01'13"]: Artist of the Week - Steven Osborne

    • Maurice Ravel

      Valses nobles et sentimentales

      Performers: Steven Osborne (piano)

      • HYPERION CDA 67731/2.
  • 10.30 [01'30"]: BARONESS JULIA NEUBERGER'S CHOICES

    • Schubert orch. Offenbach

      Standchen (from Schwanengesang)

      Performers: Thomas Quasthoff (baritone), Chamber Orchestra of Europe, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 471 586-2.
  • Johannes Brahms

    "Denn alles Fleisch, es ist wie gras" (from the German Requiem)

    Performers: Philharmonia Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Otto Klemperer (conductor)

    • EMI CDC 7 47238 2.
  • 11am [02'00"]: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Concerto in C minor, Op. 37

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano), Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

      • CBS MK 39814.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata in F minor, BWV 1018

    Performers: Monica Huggett (violin), Ton Koopman (harpsichord)

    • PHILIPS 410 401-2.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Finale from Tanzwalzer

    Performers: ´óÏó´«Ã½ Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 241-44.

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  • Tue 11 Sep 2012 09:00

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