Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Victoria Glendinning
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles - The Sweetheart Soprano; Brainteaser; Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer; Author Victoria Glendinning.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist, Victoria Glendinning.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles The Sweetheart Soprano REGIS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer
10:30
She has written biographies of personalities such as Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Trollope and Sir Stamford Raffles, which have been praised for their sensitive approach emphasizing the importance of romantic and family relationships, as opposed to larger historical forces. She has also written three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight. Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, Victoria was awarded a CBE in 1998.
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Music Played
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Francis Poulenc
Bransle de Bourgogne (Suite francaise)
Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥� Philharmonie. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.- EMI.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Scherzo capriccioso Op.66
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.- Decca.
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Heitor Villa鈥怢obos
Bachiana brasileira No 5
Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Heitor Villa鈥怢obos.- Alto.
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Jean Sibelius
Spring Song
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.- EMI.
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Puzzle: Endings
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance no.4 in F sharp minor
Music Arranger: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Philips.
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Puzzle: Endings
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Allegretto in B flat major, WoO 39
Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Leonard Rose. Performer: Eugene Istomin.- Sony.
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Johannes Brahms
Ihr habt nun Traurigkeit (A German Requiem)
Singer: Margaret Price. Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn. -
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Mozart
Epistle Sonata in C, K263
Performer: King's Consort. Performer: Robert King (director).- HYPERION.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Suite in A, Op 98b
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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Pietro Locatelli
Concerto grosso in F, Op 1 No 7
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch (violin). Performer: Raglan Baroque Players. Performer: Nicholas Kraemer (director).- HYPERION.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Suite: Love for Three Oranges (March and Scherzo)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- Mercury Living Presence.
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John Tavener
The Protecting Veil (opening)
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- Virgin.
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Richard Strauss
September (Four Last Songs)
Singer: Gundula Janowitz. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle: Endings
The pieces were all endings from Requiems.
The music played:
Berlioz
Agnus Dei (Final mvmt, Grande Messe des Morts op 5)
Wandsworth School Boys鈥� Choir
London Symphony Chorus
London Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor)
PHILIPS 415 284 2
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Faure
End of In Paradisum (Requiem)
Choir Of King's College Cambridge
New Philharmonia Orchestra
David Willcocks (conductor)
EMI CDM 764715 2
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Brahms
End of 鈥楽elig sind die Toten, die in dem Herrn sterben鈥� (Final mvmt, A German Requiem op 45)
Swedish Radio Chorus
Eric-Ericson Chamber Choir
Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
DG 437 517 2听听
Broadcast
- Wed 27 Aug 2014 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
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