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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: clarinettist Michael Collins; Sarah's Essential Choice: Debussy: Images for orchestra.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, clarinettist Michael Collins.

10.30am
This Tuesday (23rd April) marks Shakespeare's birthday, and Sarah Walker's guest this week is the stage and screen actress, Felicity Kendal. As a child, Felicity's family moved to India, where her parents ran a touring company that performed Shakespeare plays. She became a full time member of the company at the age of twelve, playing the role of Puck in a production of A Midsummer's Night Dream. Felicity is best known to the nation as playing Barbara Good in the popular sitcom The Good Life, alongside Richard Briers. Other television roles include Rosemary (in Rosemary & Thyme), and she also starred in the 2010 series of Strictly Come Dancing.

Felicity's stage career blossomed during the 1980s and 1990s when she formed a close professional association with Sir Tom Stoppard, starring in the first productions of many of his plays. In 2006 she starred in the West End revival of Amy's View by David Hare, and more recently she appeared in The Last Cigarette (2009) and in Mrs Warren's Profession (2010). In May this year she will star in the first London revival of Relatively Speaking by Alan Ayckbourn.

11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

Debussy: Images pour orchestra
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
DG 4790056.

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Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    Etudes pour le piano: Pour les octaves

    Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)

    • BIS CD 1955/56.

  • Raff

    Orchestral Prelude to Macbeth, WoO 50

    Performers: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHSA 5117.

  • 9.16: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Manuel Ponce

      Estrellita

      Performers: Maxim Vengerov (violin), Vag Papian (piano), Virtuosi

      • EMI 5571642.

  • Franz Schubert

    Four Impromptus: No. 1 in F minor, D.935

    Performers: Mitsuko Uchida (piano)

    • PHILIPS 456 245-2.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Elena Kats鈥怌hernin

      Ornamental Air: Quartet Note

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet/conductor), Swedish Chamber Orchestra

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10756.

  • 9.39am

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No. 38 in C, H1 No. 38

      Performers: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 427 6612.

  • Edward Elgar

    Dream of Gerontius Op.38 Part II - I went to sleep; My work is done

    Performers: Dame Janet Baker (mezzo soprano), Richard Lewis (tenor), Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI CMS 7631852.

  • 10.05: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Johannes Brahms

      Sonata for Clarinet and Piano No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 120 No. 2

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

      • VIRGIN 91076.

  • 10.30: Felicity Kendal's Choices

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Violin Concerto in B flat 'La caccia' Op. 8 No. 10, RV 362

      Performers: Yehudi Menuhin (violin), Polish Chamber Orchestra, Jerzy Maksymiuk (conductor)

      • EMI 5650392.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Traviata: 'Lunga da lei' 鈥� 'De' miei bollenti spiriti'

    Performers: Placido Domingo (tenor), Bavarian State Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)

    • DG 415 1322.

  • John Rutter

    Ave Maria

    Performers: Tewkesbury Abbey Schola Cantorum, Benjamin Nicholas (director)

    • DELPHIAN DCD34107.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Claude Debussy

      Images pour orchestre

      Performers: Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

      • DG 479 0056.

  • 11.35am

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Three Shakespeare Songs

      Performers: Finzi Singers, Paul Spicer (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 9425.

  • Hector Berlioz

    Le Roi Lear Overture, Op. 4

    Performers: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHSA 5118.

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  • Tue 23 Apr 2013 09:00
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