Tuesday - Sarah Walker with James May
A selection of music with Sarah Walker and at 10.30am her guest is writer and television presenter James May. Also at 9.30am, our daily brainteaser Who's Singing?
Sarah Walker's guest this week is writer and television presenter James May.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book II, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), APART脡 AP070. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C, K551 ('Jupiter')
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in B flat major, K 270 (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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Josef Myslivecek
Symphony in C major
Orchestra: Concerto K枚ln. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.- Archiv.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 889
Performer: Christophe Rousset.- Aparte.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Russian Overture, Op 72
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Walter Weller.- Decca.
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George Frideric Handel
'I rage, I melt, I burn!' / 'O ruddier than the cherry', from Acis and Galatea
Performer: Christopher Purves (bass). Performer: Arcangelo. Performer: Jonathan Cohen (conductor).- HYPERION.
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Joseph Haydn
Fantasia in C major, Hob.XVII:4
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- Philips.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Golden Cockerel: Tsar Dodon meets the Queen of Shemakha
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Lorin Maazel.- Decca.
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George Frideric Handel
Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori (Aci, Galatea e Polifemo)
Singer: Christopher Purves. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Conductor: Jonathan Cohen.- Hyperion.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in D, Op. 10 No. 3
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- Brilliant Classics.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
An die Einsamkeit (Sei du mein Trost) for voice and piano (K.391)
Singer: Barbara Hendricks. Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in A minor
Performer: James Galway. Orchestra: Zagreba膷ki solisti.- RCA.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Ballade No.1 in G minor
Performer: Alfred Cortot.- Naxos.
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Maurice Ravel
Valses nobles et sentimentales for piano; Vif
Performer: Steven Osborne.- Ravel: The Complete Solo Piano Music: Steven Osborne, Piano.
- Hyperion.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No 41 in C major, K 551, 'Jupiter'
Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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B茅la Bart贸k
Two Pictures
Performer: Hungarian State Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Adam Fischer (conductor).- BRILLIANT.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who's Singing?
Answer: the giant Polyphemus, from Handel鈥檚 Acis and Galatea.
The music played:
Handel
'I rage, I melt, I burn!... O ruddier than the cherry', from Acis and Galatea聽聽聽
Christopher Purves (bass)
Arcangelo
Jonathan Cohen (conductor)
HYPERION CDA6784
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