Friday - 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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Johann Sebastian Bach
Ich ruf zu Dir, Herr
Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.- LIR Classics.
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Richard Wagner
Isoldes Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde)
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Singer: Margaret Price. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- DG.
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Arthur Bliss
War in the Air: theme
Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.- Chandos.
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne Op.40 'In London Town'
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- First Hand Records.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Orient et Occident, Op.25
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- Chandos.
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Manuel de Falla
Alli esta! Riyendo (La Vida Breve)
Conductor: Ernesto Halffter. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Orchestra: Orquestra Sinf贸nica de la Opera de Barcelona.- Alto.
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Only Connect
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Jules Massenet
Meditation (Tha茂s)
Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Decca.
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Hector Berlioz
Hungarian March (The Damnation of Faust)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- Philips.
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Richard Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Karl B枚hm.- DG.
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Gioachino Rossini
String Sonata No 1 in G major
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel Classics.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in C minor, Op 6 No 3
Performer: The Brandenburg Consort. Performer: Roy Goodman (director).- HYPERION.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
'Giunse alfin il momento... Deh vieni, non tardar' (Marriage of Figaro, Act IV)
Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Singer: Alison Hagley.- Archiv.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect
The connection was Naughty Boys.
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The music played:
R. Strauss
Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche
Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra
Sir Neville Marriner
CAPRICCIO C51159
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Ravel
Part of opening - "L'Enfant et les Sortileges".
Ambrosian Opera Chorus
The Boy: Susan Davenny Wyner (mezzo-sop)
London Symphony Orchestra
Andre Previn (conductor)
EMI CDEMX2241听听
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Dukas
The Sorcerer's Apprentice
London Symphony Orchestra
Charles Mackerras (conductor)
CALA CACD1022听
Broadcast
- Fri 29 Aug 2014 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3
Our Classical Century
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