Thursday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures - Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; Proms Artist Recommends; Professor Lavinia Greenlaw.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures played by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Lavinia Greenlaw, Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collections include Night Photograph; The Casual Perfect; and Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has written several novels, Mary George of Allnorthover and An Irresponsible Age, as well as two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2011 her sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Lavinia's work for music includes several opera libretti for composers Richard Ayres and Ian Wilson. She has also written and adapted dramas for radio, and has made documentaries on the Arctic, the Baltic, mountains, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, the darkest place in England, and the solstices and equinoxes.
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Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.
Music Played
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Premier Concert: Gigue 鈥� Legerement
Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)
- ALIA VOX AVSA9840.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Rondo Brillant
Performers: John Ogdon (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Aldo Ceccato (conductor)
- EMI 7046372.
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9.13: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Joseph Haydn
Armida: Sinfonia in B, Hob. 1a:14
Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)
- BIS CD 1818.
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Claude Debussy
Deux Arabesques
Performers: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)
- PHILIPS 422 4042.
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Philippe Verdelot
Nil Majus Superi Vident
Performers: Alamire, David Skinner (conductor)
- OBSIDIAN CD705.
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Today's Brainteaser
Who am I?
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Francisco Corselli
Il Farnace 鈥� Sinfonia
Performers: El Concierto Espagnol, Emilio Moreno (director)
- GLOSSA GCD 80307.
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Alexander Glazunov
Raymonda: Suite from the Ballet Op. 57a 鈥� Act I Entr'acte
Performers: Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Jose Serebrier (conductor)
- WARNER 2564619392.
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Gesualdo
O Crux Benedicta
Performers: Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerly (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.550742.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
18 Morceaux Op. 72: Impromptu & Berceuse
Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
- DG 477 5378.
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10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices
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Maurice Ravel
L'enfant et les sortil猫ges: "How's your mug?"
Performers: Fire: Annick Massis (soprano), Shepherdess: Mojca Erdmann (soprano), Child: Magdalena Kozena (mezzo soprano), Shepherd: Sophie Koch (mezzo soprano), Cup: Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto), Teapot: Jean-Paul Fouchecourt (tenor), Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Simon Rattle (conductor)
- EMI 2641972.
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Benjamin Britten
Peter Grimes: "Now the great bear and Pleiades鈥�"
Performers: Peter Grimes: Alan Oke, Nieces: Alexandra Hutton & Charmain Bedford, Bob Boles: Robert Murray, Captain Balstrode: David Kempster, Auntie: Gaynor Keeble, The Chorus of Opera North, Britten鈥揚ears Orchestra, Steuart Bedford (conductor)
- SIGNUM SIGCD348.
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Johann Joseph Fux
Ouverture a 7
Performers: European Union Baroque Orchestra, Lars Ulrik Mortenson (conductor)
- CLASSICAL COMMUNICATIONS CCL CDG1211.
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