Friday - Sarah Walker with Howard Brenton
With Sarah Walker. Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances; Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires; Playwright Howard Brenton; Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
Sarah Walker with her guest, the playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at 9.30am, our daily brainteaser: Only Connect
10am
Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires
10.30am
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the 大象传媒 TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg B眉chner.
11am
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
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Kalevi Aho
Symphony No. 1: 1st movement
Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.- BIS.
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Only Connect
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Gaetano Donizetti
Lucia di Lammermoor: 'Spargi d'amaro pianto'
Performer: Raffaele Ari茅. Choir: Chorus of the Maggio Musicale of Florence. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Maggio Musicale of Florence. Singer: Maria Callas. Singer: Tito Gobbi. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Oboe Concerto in A minor, BWV 1055
Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.- Newton Classics.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV825
Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.- RCA.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Piano Concerto No 2 in F minor, Op 21
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- DG.
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Frederick Delius
La Calinda
Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- EMI.
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Edward Elgar
Incidental music to Grania and Diarmid
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Ivan Susanin (A Life for the Tsar): Overture
Orchestra: The UK Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Regis.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Violin Sonata in G, K.301
Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Performer: Walter Klien.- Philips.
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Michel鈥怰ichard de Lalande
Air de Combattants (Les Folies de Cardenio)
Ensemble: Musica Florea. Director: Marek 艩tryncl.- MBF.
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Jacques Offenbach
La belle H茅l猫ne (Overture)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.- French Bonbons: 大象传媒 Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet in E flat, Op. 44
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires. Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Renaud Capu莽on. Performer: G茅rard Causs茅. Performer: Jian Wang.- DG.
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Richard Arnell
Symphony No.7 'Mandela', Op.201 real./compl.Yates
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Martin Yates.- DUTTON EPOCH.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in A flat major, D.899 no.4
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- DG.
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Vincent Youmans
Tahiti Trot
Music Arranger: Dmitry Shostakovich. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answer
Only Connect
The connection was Horses鈥� gaits 鈥� the way that horses move: Walk, Trot, Galop.
The music played:
Delius
The WALK to the Paradise Garden, from A Village Romeo and Juliet
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor)
LONDON 421 390 2聽聽聽聽
Youmans arr. Shostakovich
Tahiti TROT
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
DECCA 433 702 2聽聽聽
Koenig
Posthorn GALOP
The Regimental Band of the 17th/21st Lancers
BANDLEADER BNA5070聽
Broadcast
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