Thursday - Sarah Walker with Michael Boyd
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Fantasy - A Night at the Opera, with Emmanuel Pahud; Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little; Sarah's Essential Choice: Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No 2.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the theatre director Michael Boyd.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Fantasy ? A Night at the Opera, Emmanuel Pahud, EMI. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little.
10.30am
2014 marks the 450th anniversary of Shakespeare's birth, and Sarah's guest this week is the former artistic director of the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC), Sir Michael Boyd. Michael trained as a director in Moscow, before joining the Sheffield Crucible as an Associate Director, and becoming the founding Artistic Director of the Tron Theatre in Glasgow. He joined the RSC in 1996, staging the three parts of Henry VI together with Richard III at the Young Vic, as part of the This England: The Histories cycle. He assumed control of the RSC in 2003, burdened with a deficit of 拢2.8m, with a remit to turn its fortunes around. He ran a year-long Complete Works of Shakespeare Festival and a London season at the Novello Theatre, and in 2007 he launched the long-awaited redevelopment of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre. Michael was knighted in the 2012 Birthday Honours for services to drama.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Yuja Wang (piano)
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela
Gustavo Dudamel (conductor)
DG.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon a 10 [1597 no.9]
Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.- Archiv.
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Christoph Willibald Gluck
Dance of the Blessed Spirits (Orfeo ed Euridice)
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Juliette Hurel. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yannick N茅zet鈥怱茅guin.- WARNER.
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Karl Davydov
At the Fountain, Op.20 no.2
Performer: Leonid Gorokhov. Performer: Colin Stone.- Olympia.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Keyboard Concerto in D major, BWV 1054
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Orchestra: Les Violons du Roy. Conductor: Bernard Labadie.- Virgin.
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Arvo P盲rt
Spiegel im Spiegel
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Martin Roscoe.- EMI.
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Gabriel Piern茅
Canzonetta, Op.19
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- Chandos.
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Richard Wagner
Lohengrin: Prelude to Act I
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.- EMI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake (Swan Theme)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.- DG.
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William Walton
Violin Sonata
Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.- Chandos.
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Stainer
God so loved the World
Performer: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Performer: Graham Ross (conductor).- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Mass of Thanksgiving: Gloria a 7
Ensemble: Taverner Consort and Players. Conductor: Andrew Parrott.- EMI.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Gondolier's Song (Gondellied)
Performer: Daniel Barenboim.- DG.
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Boismortier
Sonata in G major for bassoon and continuo, Op. 50 No. 2: Largo
Performer: Peter Whelan (bassoon). Performer: Ensemble Marsyas.- LINN.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor
Performer: Yuja Wang. Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Ballo: Volgendo il ciel - No. 2 Movete al mio bel suon le piante snelle
Performer: Arcangelo. Performer: Jonathan Cohen (director).- HYPERION.
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Louis Spohr
Clarinet Concerto No. 4 in E minor
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Kenneth Sillito.- EMI.
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