Friday - Sarah Walker with Alexander McCall Smith
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Robert Mackintosh Airs, Minuets, Gavotts and Reels; Proms Artist of the Week: Barry Douglas; Essential Choice: Schumann: Konzertstuck in F.
The author Alexander McCall Smith is Sarah Walker's guest this week. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Only Connect.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Robert Mackintosh Airs, Minuets, Gavotts & Reels - Concerto Caledonia, DELPHIAN. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Barry Douglas.
10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the author Alexander McCall Smith, best known for The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency series. His other book series include 44 Scotland Street and The Sunday Philosophy Club, while his most recent novel, The Forever Girl, was published earlier this year. He was appointed a CBE in 2006 for services to literature.
As well as being an acclaimed writer, Alexander is an expert on medical law and bioethics, and has served on British and international committees concerned with these issues. He is the former chairman of the British Medical Journal Ethics Committee, the former vice-chairman of the Human Genetics Commission of the UK, and a former member of the International Bioethics Committee of UNESCO.
He is also an amateur bassoonist, co-founder of The Really Terrible Orchestra, and helped to found Botswana's first centre for opera training, the Number 1 Ladies' Opera House.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Schumann
Konzertstuck Op. 86 in F major for 4 horns and orchestra
Philharmonia Orchestra
Christian Thielemann (conductor).
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Music Played
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Robert Mackintosh
The Duchess of Gordon's Delight; Miss Campbell's Reel
Performer: Concerto Caledonia.- DELPHIAN.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Rhapsody on a Breton Theme op 7 no 3
Performer: Margaret Philips.- YORK.
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Gioachino Rossini
William Tell: Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- EMI.
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Only Connect
Conductor: anon. -
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Domenico Scarlatti
Harpsichord sonata in F Kk44
Performer: Christophe Rousset.- Decca.
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Th茅odore Dubois
Saxophone Quartet
Performer: PRISM Quartet.- Koch.
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Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River
Orchestra: Bournemouth Sinfonietta. Conductor: Norman Del Mar.- Chandos.
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian Fantasy
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Barry Douglas. Conductor: Jun聮ichi Hirokami.- RCA.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Quartet in G major for flute, oboe, violin and continuo (Tafelmusik)
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Arvo P盲rt
Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Chandos.
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Franz Danzi
Konzertst眉ck No 2: Variations on 'L脿 ci darem la mano'
Performer: Sabine Meyer. Orchestra: Philharmonia Z眉rich. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.- EMI.
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Mackintosh
Gavotta
Performer: Concerto Caledonia. -
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Robert Schumann
Konzertstuck op 86 for 4 horns and orchestra
Performer: Peter Blake. Performer: Lawrence Davies. Performer: Nigel Black. Performer: Laurence Rogers. Performer: Philharmonia Orchestra. Performer: Christian Thielemann.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
String Quartet in C minor K465 鈥楧issonance鈥�
Performer: Emerson String Quartet.- DG.
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Schubert arr Liszt
Ave Maria D839
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was Summer.
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The music played:
Delius
Summer Night on the River
Bournemouth Sinfonietta
Norman Del Mar (conductor)
CHANDOS CHAN 6502听听
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Vivaldi
Summer (Four seasons) OP 8 no 2听 3rd mvmt Presto 鈥楾empo impetuoso d鈥檈state鈥�
Andrew Manze (violin)
Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra
Ton Koopman (director)
ERATO 94811听听听
Barber
Knoxville: Summer of 1915
Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
EMI CDC 555358 2
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