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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including 9.00am CD of the Week: Telemann Wind Concertos. 9.30am Michael Tilson Thomas. 11.00am Sarah's Essential Choice: Piano Concerto No 16 in D, K451.

with Sarah Walker, and her guest, comedian and actress Rebecca Front

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Telemann Wind Concertos - Musica Antiqua Cologne, Reinhard Goebel, ARCHIV

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas.

10.30am
This week Sarah Walker is joined by comedian and actress Rebecca Front, best known for her performances as Nicola Murray MP in the political satire, The Thick of It. She appeared in a series of critically acclaimed satirical comedies in the early 1990s, including On The Hour, The Day Today and Knowing Me, Knowing You...with Alan Partridge. During the 2000s, her career continued across a range of comedy genres with prominent roles in animation Monkey Dust, Time Gentlemen Please, Nighty Night, and sketch show Big Train. In recent years Rebecca has regularly appeared on comedy panel shows on British television and radio including The News Quiz, Have I Got News For You and If I Ruled The World. In 2003, she was listed in The Observer as one of the 50 funniest acts in British comedy. Since 2006, she has been writing columns for The Guardian.

11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

Brahms: Sonata for viola and piano in E flat, Op. 120 No. 2
Yuri Bashmet (viola)
Michail Muntian (piano)

11.25
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K.451
Murray Perahia (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra.

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Wed 3 Apr 2013 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K.451

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo alla turca (Piano sonata in A major, K.331)

    Performers: Canadian Brass

    • SONY CLASSICAL MK 45744.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata: Prelude to Act 1

    Performers: National Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Bonynge (conductor)

    • DECCA 430 491 2.

  • 9.07: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Concerto for two chalumeaux in D minor

      Performers: Erik Hoeprich & Lisa Klewitt (chalumeaux), Musica Antiqua K枚ln, Reinhard Goebel (director)

      • ARCHIV 419 633 2.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Romance and Pastorale

    Performers: The Nash Ensemble: Marianne Thorsen (violin), Ian Brown (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67381.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question 1851

      Performers: Schumann Symphony no 3 'Rhenish'; Verdi Rigoletto; Liszt La Campanella

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Michael Tilson Thomas

    • George Gershwin

      3 Preludes

      Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.

      Performers: Michael Tilson Thomas (piano)

      • CBS CD39699.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Academic Festival Overture

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Eugen Jochum (conductor)

    • EMI CZS 569515 2.

  • 10am: Artist of the Week - Michael Tilson Thomas

    • Aaron Copland

      Clarinet Concerto

      Performers: Richard Stoltzman (clarinet), London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 61790 2.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Clair de lune op 46 no 2

    Performers: Barbara Hendricks (soprano), Michel Dalberto (piano)

    • EMI CDC 555 280 2.

  • Boyce

    Symphony No. 7 in B flat major

    Performers: The Academy of Ancient Music, Christopher Hogwood (conductor)

    • L鈥橭ISEAU LYRE 436 761 2.

  • 10.30: Rebecca Front's Choices

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Waltz No. 2 from Jazz Suite

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • WARNER 9362474502.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Gloria RV 589: Gloria in excelsis Deo; Et in terra pax hominibus; Laudamus te

    Performers: Emma Kirkby (soprano), Tessa Bonner (soprano), Collegium Musicum 90, Richard Hickox (condutor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN0518.

  • Grainger

    Dreamery

    Performers: 大象传媒 Philharmonic Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10638.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Johannes Brahms

      Sonata for viola and piano in E flat, Op. 120 No. 2

      Performers: Yuri Bashmet (viola), Mikhail Muntian (piano)

      • RCA 09026632932.

  • 11.24am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto No. 16 in D, K.451

      Performers: Murray Perahia (piano), English Chamber Orchestra

      • CBS CD37824.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale Preludes Herr Jesu Christ, dich zu uns wend BWV 726; Allein Gott in der Hoh'sei He

    Performers: Marie-Claire Alain (organ of the Georgenkirche, Roetha, Germany)

    • ERATO 4509967212.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Allein Gott in der Hohn'dei Ehr

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Christ lag in Todesbanden

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Ach Gott und Herr

Broadcast

  • Wed 3 Apr 2013 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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