Thursday - Sarah Walker with Marina Lewycka
With Sarah Walker. Including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet and Sarah's guest, the author Marina Lewycka.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the novelist, Marina Lewycka.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, CHANDOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Marina Lewycka. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay Literary Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into thirty-five languages. Marina's other novels include We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead, and Two Caravans, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In 2009, she donated the short story The Importance of Having Warm Feet to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, as well as another short story, Business Philosophy, to the Amnesty International anthology, Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Elgar
Symphony No. 2 in E flat, Op. 63
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor).
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Music Played
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Biagio Marini
Canzon seconda (Sonate, symphoniae, canzoni, pass'emezzi, baletti... Op.8)
Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Liszt
Reiminiscences of Don Giovanni by Mozart, S418
Performer: Louis Lortie.- CHANDOS.
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Benjamin Britten
Soirees musicales
Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.- DECCA.
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Claude Debussy
Gigues (Images)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
"Voi che sapete" (The Marriage of Figaro)
Singer: Frederica von Stade. Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- DECCA.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelles, Op.119 Nos 1-5
Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.- HUNGAROTON.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Prelude & Fugue in G major, Op.109 No.2
Performer: Adrian Partington.- PRIORY.
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George Frideric Handel
Trio Sonata in G major, Op.5 No.4
Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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William Walton
Orb and Sceptre coronation march
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- TELARC.
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Heinrich Sch眉tz
Erbarm dich mein, O Herre Gott, SWV447
Singer: Michael Chance. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Karol Szymanowski
Nocturne and Tarantella op 28
Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Performer: Marina Gusak-Grin.- Chandos.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Tempo di Menuetto (3rd mvmt of Septet in E flat op 20)
Ensemble: Ensemble 360.- Nimbus.
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Louis Vierne
Carillon de Westminster
Performer: Benjamin Nicholas.- DELPHIAN.
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Edward Elgar
Symphony No 2 in E flat major, Op 63
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.- WARNER APEX.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Who am I?
Credit
| Role | Contributor |
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| Performer | 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra |
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