Tuesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things; Artist of the Week: Julian Bream; Sarah's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser: Originally Written For...?
10am
Artist of the Week: Julian Bream, who celebrates his 80th Birthday this year.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.
11am
Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Vadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor).
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Charles Gounod
Faust: Ballet Music - Variations du Mirroir
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.- EMI.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Zapateado, Op 23 No 2
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet. -
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in A minor, K.511
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Decca.
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Gustav Holst
Suite in F major for military band, Op 28 No 2
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- CHANDOS.
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Anonymous
BT - Originally Written For
Performer: Anonymous.- Egon.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Russian Easter Festival Overture
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.- PHILIPS.
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Anton Bruckner
Os iusti meditabitur
Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.- Hyperion.
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Emmanuel Chabrier
Espana
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- MERCURY.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV825
Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.- RCA.
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Johann Adam Hiller
Die Jagd (Overture)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Blomstedt 1998-2005 in Leipzig: Blomstedt/Gewandhaus orchestra.
- Querstand Records.
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Manuel de Falla
Danza espanola No 1 (La vida breve)
Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.- RCA.
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William Byrd
Ave verum corpus
Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.- Decca.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Piano Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81: Andante con moto
Ensemble: Smetana Quartet. Performer: Pavel 艩t臎p谩n.- Testament.
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Carl Nielsen
The Fog is Lifting
Performer: Judith Hall. Performer: Elinor Bennett.- Images and Impressions: Music for Flute & Harp.
- Nimbus.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35
Performer: Vadim Repin. Orchestra: Kirov Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.- Philips.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI/34
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- PHILIPS.
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Luigi Boccherini
Guitar Quintet in D major, G 488 (Introduction and Fandango)
Music Arranger: Julian Bream. Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.- RCA.
Broadcast
- Tue 10 Sep 2013 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.
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Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.