Friday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen; Howard Jacobson; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Duett-Concertino in F AV147.
9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: The Italian Collection by The Sixteen - CORO COR10699
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and Sarah's recommended performance by the next pianist in Peter Donohoe's survey of 50 Great Pianists. This week in Essential Classics as part of Piano Season, Sarah will be showcasing Italian and Latin American pianists and piano music.
10.30am
This week the winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize is announced, and Sarah Walker's guest is the acclaimed novelist Howard Jacobson, who won the prize in 2010 for The Finkler Question. His novels include The Mighty Walzer, which won the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing, Who's Sorry Now? and Kalooki Nights.
As well as his fiction, Jacobson is also a columnist for the Independent and has written and presented several television programmes, including Creation, the first part of the critically acclaimed Channel 4 series, The Bible: A History. Recent television programmes, including Jesus the Jew, have also been widely admired.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
R Strauss: Duett-Concertino in F for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, AV 147
Nicole Kern (clarinet)
Higinio Arru茅 (bassoon)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
Paavo J盲rvi (conductor)
PENTATONE 5186 060.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in A flat, Op. posth
Performers: Ingrid Fliter (piano)
- EMI 6 98351 2.
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Johann Strauss II
Emperor Waltz, Op. 437
Performers: Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Ferenc Frisay (conductor)
- DG 477 9156.
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9.14: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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George Frideric Handel
Gloria patri et filio', from Dixit Dominus
Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)
- CORO COR16099.
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Isaac Alb茅niz
Cordoba and Seguidillas from Cantos de Espana
Performers: Rafael Orozco (piano)
- AUVIDIS V 4663.
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Today's Brainteaser
Only Connect
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Overture to Zais
Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)
- ARCHIV 479 0374.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Romance for string quartet
Performers: Borodin Quartet
- ONYX 4002.
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne (In London Town), op.40
Performers: Halle, Mark Elder (conductor)
- HALLE CD HLL 7501.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Piano Sonata no.3 in B minor, op.58
Performers: Artur Rubinstein
- RCA GD60822.
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10.30: Howard Jacobson's Choice
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Johann Sebastian Bach
'Schlummert ein', from Cantata BWV 82
Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), Bath Festival Orchestra, Yehudi Menuhin (conductor)
- EMI 3 97732 2.
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Sarah's 'Personal Shopper' Choice
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Spohr
Sonata in G for cello and harp, op.115 - 2nd mvt (Larghetto)
Performers: Klaus Storck (cello), Helga Storck (harp)
- WARNER 2564 60428-2.
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Richard Strauss
Duett-Concertino in F for clarinet, bassoon and orchestra, AV 147
Performers: Nicole Kern (clarinet), Higinio Arru茅 (bassoon), The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen, Paavo J盲rvi (conductor)
- PENTATONE 5186 060.
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Robert Schumann
Waldszenen, Op. 82
Performers: Claudio Arrau (piano)
- PHILIPS 420 871-2.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D for 3 trumpets, 2 oboes, timpani, strings and continuo
Performers: Hakan Hardenberger, Michael Laird, William Houghton (trumpets), Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields, Iona Brown (direction)
- PHILIPS 420 954-2.
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
'Minstrel Impressions from Ciclo brasileiro
Performers: Cristina Ortiz (piano)
- DECCA 417 650-2.
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