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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week; Artist of the Week: clarinettist Michael Collins; Sarah's Essential Choice: Debussy: Images (Set 1).

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 for piano Set 1
Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)
DG 4790056.

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Wed 24 Apr 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Zelenka

    Ouverture a 7: Concertanti in F major - Folia

    Performers: Il Fondamento, Paul Dombrecht (conductor)

    • PASSACAILLE 9524.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Aram Khachaturian

      Sabre Dance (Gayane)

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

      • EMI 5571642.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Coronation Anthem: Let Thy Hand Be Strengthened

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16066.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Scherzo No. 4 in E, Op. 54

    Performers: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano)

    • DECCA 478 3206.

  • Georges Bizet

    Carmen Suite No.2 - Danse Boheme

    Performers: Mexico City Philharmonic Orchestra, Enrique Batiz (conductor)

    • ASV DCA 596.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Listener Brainteaser - Puzzle

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Bax

      Clarinet Sonata in D

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10704.

  • 9.48am

    • Johannes Brahms

      Hungarian Dances: No. 18 in D; No. 19 in B minor; No. 20 in E minor; No. 21 in E minor

      Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • DG 410 6152.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Andante and Rondo Ungarese

    Performers: Fibonacci Sequence

    • DEUX ELLES DXL1104.

  • 10.07: Artist of the Week - Michael Collins

    • Charles Villiers Stanford

      Clarinet Concerto in A minor, Op. 80

      Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet/conductor), 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra

      • CHANDOS CHAN 10739.

  • 10.30: Felicity Kendal's Choices

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      Romeo and Juliet Suite No. 2: No. 7 Romeo at Juliet's Grave

      Performers: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (conductor)

      • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 432 004-2.

  • Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass

    Ragas In Minor Scale

    Performers: Ravi Shankar (sitar) and friends

    • PRIVATE MUSIC 260947.

  • Michael Praetorius

    Suite de Voltes from Terpsichore

    Performers: Early Music Consort of London, David Munrow (director)

    • VIRGIN 5612892.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Claude Debussy

      Images for piano: Set I

      Performers: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli (piano)

      • DG 479 0056.

  • Heino Eller

    Finale, Cantando Espressivo from Five Pieces

    Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 24144.

  • 11.20am

    • Johannes Brahms

      String Sextet No. 2 in G major, Op. 36

      Performers: Isabelle Faust and Julia-Maria Kretz (violins), Stefan Fehlandt and Pauline Sachse (violas), Christoph Richter and Xenia Jankovic (cellos)

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 902075.

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  • Wed 24 Apr 2013 09:00
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