Friday - Sarah Walker with Miranda Seymour
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Choral Music from the Renaissance and Baroque; Artist of the Week; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Tod und Verklarung.
Sarah Walker with her guest, the novelist and biographer Miranda Seymour.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque with the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica under John Rutter. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30 - today, Only Connect.
10am
Artist of the Week: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the novelist and biographer, Miranda Seymour. Biographies by Miranda include the lives of Ottoline Morrell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Cherrill (Chaplin's Girl), Hell茅 Nice (Bugatti Queen), Henry James (A Ring of Conspirators) and Robert Graves (about whom she also wrote a novel, The Telling, and a radio play, Sea Music). In My Father's House won the 2008 Pen Ackerley Memoir of the Year prize and was selected as a New York Times Book of the Year. Miranda's latest book - Noble Endeavours: Stories from England; Stories from Germany - was published earlier this year.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Richard Strauss
Tod und Verkl盲rung
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA.
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Music Played
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Only Connect
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in A major, Wq 182, No 4
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.- Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
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Hector Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique: Dream of a Witches Sabbath
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA.
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Tom谩s Luis de Victoria
Jesu dulcis memoria; O vos omnes
Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.- Collegium.
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Dmitry Bortniansky
With my voice I cried out to the Lord
Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Legend
Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Wilhelm Stenhammar
Excelsior! Op.13
Orchestra: Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- BIS.
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Canarie (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Nikolay Tcherepnin
The Enchanted Kingdom: Prelude
Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.- Newton Classics.
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Jacques Offenbach
La belle Helene: Act I, 7b Couplet des Rois
Singer: Roger Trentin. Singer: Gerard Desroches. Singer: Colette Alliot-Lugaz. Singer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Lafont. Singer: Jacques Loreau. Singer: Charles Burles. Singer: Gabriel Bacquier. Conductor: Toulouse Capitole Choir. Orchestra: Toulouse Capitol National Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Plasson.- EMI.
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Richard Strauss
Tod und Verklarung, Op. 24
Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.- Decca.
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Richard Strauss
Der Rosenkavalier (Waltzes)
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA Living Stereo.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Valse sentimentale, Op 51 No 6
Performer: Henri Demarquette. Performer: Boris Berezovsky. Music Arranger: Viktor Kubatsky.- Mirare.
Today's Brainteaser Answer
Only Connect. The connection was Girls' Names: Helene, Elise, Sylvia.
The music played:
Offenbach
La belle Helene (Act 1: 7b Couplets des Rois)
Choir and Orchestra of the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI CDS 747157聽聽
Beethoven
Fur Elise 鈥� Bagatelle, WoO 59
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS聽 412 227 2
Schubert
An Sylvia
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
DG 415 188 2
Broadcast
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