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Wednesday - Sarah Walker: Sound of Cinema

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things; Artist of the Week: Julian Bream; Essential Choice: Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C.

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: Back to the Beginning.
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

Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra

Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Sarah dips into her CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!

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Wed 11 Sep 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • William Walton

    Popular Song (Fa莽ade)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Decca.

  • Arthur Benjamin

    Oboe Concerto in C minor on themes of Domenico Cimarosa

    Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: I Musici.
    • Newton Classics.

  • Robert Schumann

    Album fur die Jugend, Op. 68: Sehr langsam

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
    • Chandos.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Consecration of the House: Overture, Op. 124

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Nine Epigrams (No 5)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

  • Anonymous

    Back to the Beginning

    Performer: Anonymous.

  • Alonso Mudarra

    Fantasia X

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • RCA.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    The Noonday Witch Op.108

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in E major, RV 269 'La Primavera' (Spring)

    Performer: Enrico Onofri. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.

  • Joaqu铆n Rodrigo

    Concierto de Aranjuez

    Performer: Julian Bream. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

  • Frank Bridge

    Two Entr'actes - Rosemary; Canzonetta

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Richard Wagner

    Die Walkure, Act II Scene 4

    Singer: R茅gine Crespin. Singer: Jon Vickers. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Romance (The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a)

    Performer: Alexander Kerr. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Shostakovich: The Film Album: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 25.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Orchestral Suite No. 1, BWV 1066

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • John White

    Sonata 127 On themes from "Les enfants du paradis"

    Performer: David Smith.
    • UHR University of Herefordshire.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Concerto for piano and orchestra no.12 (K.414) in A major, [complete]

    Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Director: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 4.

Broadcast

  • Wed 11 Sep 2013 09:00
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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