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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Dowland: Complete Lute Works; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag; Mozart: Divertimento, K563.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Dowland: Complete Lute Works played by Paul O'Dette - HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2907160.64

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, conductor Charles Mackerras.

10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is the Welsh television, film and theatre actor, Paul Rhys. Paul studied at RADA, leaving with the Bancroft Gold Medal in 1987. Since then he has seldom been off the stage and screen. His first US exposure came via American film director Robert Altman who cast Paul, still a student at the time, as Theo van Gogh in 'Vincent and Theo' (opposite Tim Roth as Vincent).

In 2000 he performed in the title role of Hamlet at the Young Vic and later in Tokyo and Osaka, receiving several awards for this performance. He also played Angelo in Measure for Measure for which he won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award, Houseman in The Invention of Love and Edgar in King Lear, for which he was nominated for an Olivier Award.

Real-life characters played by Rhys have included Peter Mandelson, Paul McCartney, Frederic Chopin and Ludwig van Beethoven - in the 大象传媒 series, The Genius of Beethoven (2005), presented by Charles Hazlewood. Appearances in recent television series include Luther, Spooks and Being Human.

11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No.41: Joplin: Maple Leaf Rag

11.05am
Mozart: Divertimento for String Trio, K563
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • 9am: Artist of the Week - Charles Mackerras

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      Slavonic Dance No. 11 in F

      Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 3422-2 031.

  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    Jealousy

    Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Mark Elder (conductor)

    • RCO LIVE RCO12004.

  • 9.10: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • John Dowland

      A Coye Joye; Mrs vauxes Gigge; Mrs vaux Galliarde; Sir Henry Guilforde his Almaine

      Performers: Paul O'Dette (8-course lute after Vendelio Venere, 1582, by Paul Thomson, Bristol; unison stringing)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907161.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Fantasy on themes from the opera 'Carmen', Op. 25

    Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine (conductor)

    • DG 00289 477 9179.

  • 9.30:

    • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

      Danse des sauvages, from Les Indes galantes

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

      • ARCHIV 479 0374.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    Serenata in E flat for 2 violins, viola, flute, oboe, cor anglais and cello

    Performers: Ensemble Explorations, Roel Dieltiens (director)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMA 1951847.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in C minor for bassoon, strings and continuo, RV 480

    Performers: Sergio Azzolini (bassoon), L'Aura Soave Cremona

    • NA脧VE OP 30539.

  • Balakirev (arr. Cziffra)

    Islamey

    Performers: Georges Cziffra (piano)

    • EMI 5 73780 2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Charles Mackerras

    • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

      The Golden Spinning Wheel, Op. 109

      Performers: Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Mackerras (conductor)

      • SUPRAPHON SU 3771-2 031.

  • 10.30: Paul Rhys's Choices

    • Trad.

      I know where I'm going

      Performers: Kathleen Ferrier (contralto), Phyllis Spurr (piano)

      • DECCA 417 192-2.

  • Franz Schubert

    String Quartet in A minor ('Death and the Maiden'): 1st movement (Allegro)

    Performers: Alban Berg Quartet

    • EMI CDC 747333-2.

  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in D

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • DG 289 459 614-2.

  • 11am: The Story of Music

    • Scott Joplin

      Maple Leaf Rag

      Performers: Joshua Rifkin (piano)

      • NONESUCH 79159.

  • 11.05: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Divertimento for String Trio, K.563

      Performers: Grumiaux Trio

      • Philips 470 950-2.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Air and Danse bacchanale from Samson and Dalila

    Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 421 527-2.

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