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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with William Boyd

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana; Proms Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti.

Sarah Walker's guest this week is the author William Boyd. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Back to the Beginning

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti

10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the prize-winning African-born author and screenwriter William Boyd, whose novels include A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Any Human Heart and Solo - a new James Bond novel continuing the adventures of Ian Fleming's spy hero. His screenplays include Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin, recalling the glamorous life of the famous silent-film star, and The Trench (which Boyd also directed), set 24 hours before the battle of the Somme, and an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.

2 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Back to the Beginning

    Performer: anon.
  • Giuseppe Tartini

    Violin Concerto in A minor, D115 "A Lunardo Venier"

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Decca.
  • Alfredo Catalani

    La Wally: 鈥楨bben! Ne andro Lontana鈥

    Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Conductor: Giuseppe Morelli. Orchestra: The Rome Opera Orchestra.
    • EMI.
  • Thomas Crecquillon

    Congratulamini Mihi

    Choir: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Claude Debussy

    La fille aux cheveux de lin (Preludes, Book 1)

    Performer: Jean鈥怸ves Thibaudet.
    • Decca.
  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Theme and Variations

    Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Bradley Moore.
    • Signum.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in C, K.373

    Conductor: James MacMillan. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Decca.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Cinderella Op.87 (Grand Waltz)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Kaiser-Walzer, Op 437

    Music Arranger: Arnold Schoenberg. Ensemble: Linos Ensemble.
    • Capriccio.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Douze morceaux Op.40: Chant sans paroles

    Performer: Boris Berezovsky.
    • Mirare.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto polonois in G major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.
  • E.J. Moeran

    Symphony in G minor - Allegro

    Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Chandos.
  • Ermanno Wolf鈥怓errari

    Overture to 鈥楲a dama boba鈥

    Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Back to the Beginning

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Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

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