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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Handel Keyboard Suites; Artist of the Week: the Gabrieli Consort and Players; Essential Choice: Schumann: Symphony No 4.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Handel Keyboard Suites performed by Anne Queff茅lec.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, The Gabrieli Consort and Players

10.30am
In the week of the Henley Royal Regatta, Sarah's guest is the Olympic and double world champion in rowing, Anna Watkins. Anna forged a formidable partnership with Katherine Grainger in the double scull and they have won gold in every World Cup regatta they have entered, the total winning streak currently standing at 23 races over three years. Having won back-to-back World titles in 2010 and 2011, the partnership memorably won gold at the London 2012 Olympics in front of an ecstatic home crowd. Anna was awarded the MBE in the 2013 New Year Honours list.

11am
Essential Choice

Schumann: Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Staatskapelle Dresden
Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Six Etudes for the Left Hand, Op. 135: No. 6 Gigue

    Performers: Leon Fleisher (piano)

    • SONY 48081.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    Giovanna d'Arco: Overture

    Performers: Filarmonica della Scala, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 3559.

  • 9.10: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • George Frideric Handel

      Passacaille in G minor, HWV 432

      Performers: Anne Queffelec (piano)

      • MIRARE MIR010.

  • Ottorino Respighi

    Poema autumnale

    Performers: Julia Fischer (violin), Orchestre Philharmonique de Monte Carlo, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2684.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Critics' Corner

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

  • 9.32: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort

    • Harris

      Bring us, O Lord God

      Performers: Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

      • DG 477 6605.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia

    Performers: Philharmonia, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • DECCA 452 5762.

  • George Gershwin

    Jasbo Brown's Blues (from Porgy and Bess)

    Performers: Frank Braley (piano)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMG501883.

  • Christoph Willibald Gluck

    Orfeo et Euridice: Dance of the Blessed Spirits

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Pierre Monteux (conductor)

    • DECCA 475 7798.

  • 10am: Artists of the Week - The Gabrieli Consort

    • Victoria

      Requiem (Officium Defunctorum): Sanctus 鈥� Motectum

      Performers: Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 447 0952.

  • Granados

    12 Danzas Espagnolas Op.37 - No.5 Andaluza

    Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • MUSICA VIVA MVCD 1074.

  • Mussorgsky (arr. Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Night on the bare Mountain

    Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Valery Gergiev (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 478 4614.

  • 10.30: Anna Watkins' Choices

    • Jacques Offenbach

      Gaite Parisienne: Scene 4, Can-Can

      Performers: Monte Carlo Philharmonic Orchestra, Manuel Rosenthal (conductor)

      • NAXOS 8.554005.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Keyboard Sonata in G, K.284

    Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)

    • VIRGIN 545123.

  • John Williams

    Theme from Jurassic Park

    Performers: Orchestra, John Williams (conductor)

    • MCA 10859.

  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthuer Suite Z.628 - Trumpet Tune

    Performers: Alison Balsom (trumpet), English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • EMI 4403292.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Robert Schumann

      Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120

      Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 7694712.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Pastoral (from 2 Pieces)

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

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10704.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Flourish for Windband

    Performers: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Timothy Reynish (director)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9697.

  • 11.38am

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Suite in D, TWV 55 D:18

      Performers: Akademie f眉r Alte Musik Berlin

      • HARMONIA MUNDI HMG 508396.97.

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