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Live at Southbank Centre: Sarah Walker with Jude Kelly

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly; Essential Choice: Bach: Missa - Kyrie and Gloria (Mass in B minor).

Live at Southbank Centre with Sarah Walker and her guest, the centre's Artistic Director, Jude Kelly.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Brahms - Hungarian Dances ? The Labeques, DECCA. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: a selection of recordings from Southbank Centre's four resident orchestras - London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Sinfonietta.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Southbank Centre's current Artistic Director, Jude Kelly OBE. Jude has directed over 100 productions, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the English National Opera, at the Ch芒telet in Paris and in the West End. Among her many successes as a director, her production of Singin' in the Rain transferred twice to the Royal National Theatre and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production in 2001. She directed Sir Ian McKellen in The Seagull and The Tempest, Patrick Stewart in Othello, Dawn French in When We Are Married, and the English National Opera in The Elixir of Love and On the Town. More recently, she directed several works by Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Pe帽a, as well as a production of Bernstein's Mass at the Royal Festival Hall. In 2006, Jude was named No. 8 in "Theatreland's top 100 players" by The Independent newspaper, and in 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman's Hour on 大象传媒 Radio 4.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bach
Missa - Kyrie and Gloria (Mass in B minor)
Emma Kirkby & Emily van Evera (sopranos)
Panito Iconomou (alto)
Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
David Thomas (bass)
Soloists of the T枚lz Boys' Choir
Taverner Consort & Players
Andrew Parrott (director)

Radio 3 is broadcasting live from a pop-up studio at London's Southbank Centre all day every day for the last two weeks of March. If you're in the area, visit the Radio 3 studio and performance space in the Royal Festival Hall Riverside Caf茅 to listen to Radio 3, ask questions and enjoy the special events.

3 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Today's Brainteaser - Only Connect

  • anon

    Today's Brainteaser - Only Connect

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Mass in B minor - Kyrie & Gloria

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Emily Van Evera. Singer: Panajotis N. Iconomou. Singer: Rogers Covey鈥怌rump. Singer: David Thomas. Choir: Tolz Boys Choir. Ensemble: Taverner Consort and Players. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • VIRGIN CLASSICS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    21 Hungarian Dances (nos 4 and 5)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    贰蝉辫补帽补

    Conductor: Ernest Ansermet. Orchestra: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Ernest Ansermet L'Orchestre de la Suisse Romande.
    • Decca.
    • 1.
  • Eric Coates

    London Suite, 'London Everyday'

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • George Enescu

    Aria and Scherzino

    Performer: Remus Azoitei. Ensemble: Schubert Ensemble of London.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Grand Valse (Raymonda)

    Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.
    • Waltzes and Polonaises by Russion Composers.
    • Melodiya / BMG.
    • 1.
  • George Frideric Handel

    I will magnify thee, O Lord (Chandos Anthem No.5), HWV250c: My mouth shall speak the praise of the Lord

    Singer: Thomas Hobbs. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.
  • J贸hann J贸hannsson

    Ibm1401 Processing Unit (IBM 1401, A User's Manual)

    Performer: J贸hann J贸hannsson. Orchestra: The City of Prague Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Mario Klemens.
    • CAD.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Fair Melusina, Op 32

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in C minor, K 475

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • DG.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Poule

    Performer: Trevor Pinnock.
    • AVIE.
  • Johann Schop

    Nobleman

    Ensemble: Trio Settecento.
    • CEDILLE.
  • Toru Takemitsu

    Waltz (Face of Another)

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: John Adams.
    • NONESUCH.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect

The connection was Chickens and Hens.

The music played:

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Pictures at an Exhibition: Ballet of the chickens in their shells

Nikolai Demidenko (piano)

HYPERION CDA 67018听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

Haydn

Symphony No. 83 鈥楾he Hen鈥

: 1st movement

Philharmonia Hungarica

Antal Dorati (conductor)

DECCA 473 801 2听听听听听听听听听听听听

Saint Saens

Carnival of the Animals - Hens and Roosters.

Pascal Roge, Cristina Ortiz (pianos)

Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

Charles Dutoit (conductor)

DECCA 444 552 2听听听听听听听听听听听听听听

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