Friday - 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: Only Connect.
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 glamous 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.
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Music Played
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in G minor TWV55:gl
Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Only Connect
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dixit et Magnificat K.193
Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Singer: Eva Mei. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Singer: Kurt Azesberger. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Warner.
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Edward Elgar
Dream Children Op. 43: i. Andante
Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra.- Warner.
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George Frideric Handel
Orlando HWV31: Act III, Sinfonia
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- L'Oiseau-Lyre.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto in E minor
Conductor: James MacMillan. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.- Decca.
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Jean Sibelius
The Bard Op.64
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- RCA.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Philips.
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Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo (L'amico Fritz)
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.- Chandos.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz of the Flowers
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.- EMI.
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Dance from Vestfold
Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.- ECM New Series.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.- Decca.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was the Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker.
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The music played:
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Mayerl
Marigold
Susan Tomes (piano)
VIRGIN CLASSICS CUV561323 2听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
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Puccini
Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)
Hagen Quartet
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Nevin
Narcissus
Philip Martin (piano)
HYPERION CDA76379听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听听
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