Friday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Carmen-Fantasie, Anne-Sophie Mutter; Artist of the Week: John Ogdon; Sarah's Essential Choice: Britten: Simple Symphony.
with Sarah Walker, and her guest, plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carmen-Fantasie, Anne-Sophie Mutter, DG 437 5442
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, performances by our Artist of the Week, John Ogdon, and a great Wagner aria as part of Wagner 200.
10.30am
This is the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, and Sarah Walker's guest is plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood. Pippa is well known through her work on television and radio, and as a journalist. She is a regular presenter on the 大象传媒's Gardeners' World and a panel member of 大象传媒 Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. She also contributes regularly to 大象传媒 Gardeners' World magazine, Amateur Gardening, and the Mirror, and writes a regular blog for the 大象传媒 Gardeners' World website. Pippa is the author of several gardening books, including The New Gardener (which has sold over a million copies), 1001 Ways to be a Better Gardener, and Flower Gardener, which won a Garden Writers' Guild award in 1998. Her most recent book, The Gardener's Calendar, was published last year.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
Britten: Simple Symphony
English Chamber Orchestra
Benjamin Britten (conductor)
Franck: Piano Quintet
Cristina Ortiz (piano)
Fine Arts Quartet.
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Morley
Now is the Month of Maying
Performers: Cambridge Singers, John Rutter (conductor)
- COLLEGIUM CSCD 500.
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9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Giuseppe Tartini
'Devil's Trill' Sonata in G minor, B.g5
Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine (conductor)
- DG 437 544-2.
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Dukas arr. Victor Staub
L'apprenti sorcier
Performers: Yuja Wang (piano)
- DG 479 0052.
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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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9.32: Artist of the Week - John Ogdon
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Nocturne in F, Op. 15 No. 1
Performers: John Ogdon (piano)
- IMP PCD 834.
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Andrea Falconiero
Corrente detta L'Auellina; Corrente dicha la Cuella; Brando 'Il Spiritillo'; Brando dicho
Performers: La Ritirata
- GLOSSA GCD923101.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Song to the Moon (Rusalka)
Performers: Lucia Popp (soprano), Munich Radio Orchestra, Stefan Soltesz (conductor)
- EMI 69854.
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9.54: Artist of the Week - John Ogdon
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto in A minor
Performers: John Ogdon (piano), Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)
- DECCA 433 7292.
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10.19: Wagner 200
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Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde: "O sink hernieder鈥�"
Performers: Isolde: Margaret Price (soprano), Tristan: Rene Kollo (tenor), Staatskapelle Dresden, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
- DG 477 5355.
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Anon.
A Worcester Ladymass - Sponsa rectoris omnium
Performers: Trio Medieval
- ECM 2166.
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10.30: Pippa Greenwood's Choices
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Griffes
Poem
Performers: Sharon Bezaly (flute), Roland Pontinen (piano)
- BIS CD 1239.
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Claude Debussy
Bruyeres (Preludes Book II, No. 5)
Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)
- BIS CD 1955/56.
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Leighton Lucas
Portrait of the Amethyst from the 'Yangtse Incident'
Performers: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales, Rumon Gamba (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10713.
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11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
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Benjamin Britten
Simple Symphony
Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, Benjamin Britten (conductor)
- DECCA 417 5092.
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Andrea Falconiero
La Suave Melodia
Performers: La Ritirata
- GLOSSA GCD923101.
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C茅sar Franck
Piano Quintet
Performers: Christina Ortiz (piano), Fine Arts Quartet
- NAXOS 8.572009.
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