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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Chris Beardshaw

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Cello World: Steven Isserlis with Thomas Ades, Artist of the Week: Alina Ibragimova and Sarah's guest, garden designer Chris Beardshaw.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Cello World, featuring Steven Isserlis with Thomas Ades. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Alina Ibragimova

10.30am
In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest is the award-winning garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.

Chris is principally trained in landscape architecture and separately as a horticulturalist, which makes him a rare combination in the garden design world. His enthusiasm for plants, good design and the desire to work in harmony with the natural landscape and wildlife is reflected throughout his work.

His long broadcasting career includes the 大象传媒's Gardeners' World and series such as Hidden Gardens and the hugely popular The Flying Gardener, amongst many others. He is also a regular expert on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time panel, where he intrepidly faces a live audience of gardening enthusiasts!

Chris has received over 15 RHS medals, many of which are Best in Shows and Gold awards, as well as a growing selection of international accolades. He has also written a number of books, including 100 Plants that Almost Changed the World, and he currently contributes columns for The English Garden Magazine and for Garden News.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Path茅tique'
Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra
Evgeny Mravinsky (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Antonio Salieri

    La scuola de' gelosi (Sinfonia)

    Orchestra: l鈥檃rte del mondo. Conductor: Werner Ehrhardt.
    • Liaisons.
    • ONYX.
    • 9.
  • Francesco Manfredini

    Concerto grosso in C major, Op. 3 No. 12

    Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Warner.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Andante and Variations in D major for mandolin and keyboard

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Maggie Cole.
    • RCA.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Le carnaval romain

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA Living Stereo.
  • Anon.

    Today's Brainteaser - Originally Written For...?

  • Franz Schubert

    Violin Sonata in D major, D 384, 'Sonatina'

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Hyperion.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Prince Igor (Overture)

    Orchestra: Boston Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Arthur Fiedler.
    • RCA Living Stereo.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 3 in E major for violin, BWV 1006

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova.
    • Hyperion.
  • Charles鈥怣arie Widor

    Introduction et Rondo, Op. 72

    Performer: Michael Collins (clarinet). Performer: Michael McHale (piano).
    • CHANDOS.
  • Claude Debussy

    Suite bergamasque: Clair de lune

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅.
    • Decca.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Egmont, Op 84 (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Teldec.
  • Gabriela Montero

    Improvisation in the style of a Tango

    Performer: Gabriela Montero (piano).
    • EMI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Symphony No. 6 in B minor, Op. 74 'Pathetique'

    Orchestra: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yevgeny Mravinsky.
    • DG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto grosso Op. 6 No. 3 in E minor

    Performer: Aradia Ensemble. Performer: Kevin Mallon (conductor).
    • NAXOS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Originally Written For

Violin.

The music played:

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Partita in E major BWV 1006a: Preludio

Eduardo Fernandez (guitar)

DECCA 421 434-2

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