Thursday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things; Artist of the Week: Julian Bream; Essential Choice: Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op 53.
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: Who's Dancing?
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
Beethoven: Piano Sonata in C, Op. 53 'Waldstein'
Maurizio Pollini (piano).
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Music Played
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Ole Bull
Andante cantabile
Performer: Arve Tellefsen. Performer: H氓vard Gimse.- Simax.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Pha毛ton, Op 39
Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.- Le Carnaval des animaux (London Sinfonietta, Philharmonia Orchestra feat. conduc.
- Decca Records.
- 15.
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Pablo de Sarasate
Playera (Spanish dances Op.23)
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- Chandos.
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Johann Baptist Vanhal
Symphony in C, B C 11 'Sinfonia comista'
Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln.- Warner Classics.
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Isaac Alb茅niz
Suite espa帽ola (Granada)
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Souvenir d'une nuit d'ete a Madrid (Spanish Overture No. 2)
Orchestra: USSR Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Regis.
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Francis Poulenc
Sonata for horn, trumpet and trombone
Performer: Alan Civil. Performer: John Wilbraham. Performer: John Iveson.- EMI.
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Giacomo Puccini
Vissi d'arte (Tosca)
Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: La Scala Orchestra, Milan. Conductor: Victor de Sabata.- EMI.
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Fernando Sor
Variations on a theme by Mozart
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
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Arnold Bax
Tintagel - symphonic poem
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- English Tone Poems: Sir John Barbirolli.
- EMI.
- 2.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for two violins, BWV 1043: Largo, ma non tanto
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Herman Krebbers. Orchestra: Les Soloistes Romandes. Conductor: Arpad G茅recz.- Philips.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Music for Strings, Percussion and Celeste (Andante tranquillo)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA.
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Joseph Canteloube
Baliero (Chants d'Auvergne, Set 1 No 2)
Performer: Arleen Aug茅r. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53 "Waldstein"
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- Sonaten Opp. 31/2, 53, 79, 81a (Maurizio Pollini).
- Deutsche Grammophon.
- 004.
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Henry Purcell
Sweeter than Roses (Pausanias)
Performer: Emma Kirkb. Performer: Emma Kirkby. Performer: Anthony Rooley.- L'OISEAU lYRE.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet in E flat major, Op 44
Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Dora Schwarzberg. Performer: Lucy Hall. Performer: Nobuko Imai. Performer: Mischa Maisky.- Schumann: Chamber Works: Martha Argerich.
- EMI Classics.
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