Thursday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw
With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love Youth Orchestras; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Benjamin Grosvenor; Essential Choice: Schubert: Prometheus. Wolf: Prometheus.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bart贸k, Debussy, Ad猫s and Ginastera.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge - listen to the clues and see if you can identify the mystery person.
10am
Sarah's guest is the veteran actor Martin Shaw. Known for his roles in The Professionals, Judge John Deed and Inspector George Gently, Martin will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day earlier this week, Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and was the youngest soloist to perform at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Sa毛ns and Gershwin.
11am Essential Choice
This week Sarah explores depictions of Prometheus.
Schubert
Prometheus, D674
Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
Fritz Schwinghammer (piano)
Wolf
Prometheus
Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, Berlin
Kent Nagano (conductor).
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Monsieur Lully's ascent to Mount Parnassus (Concert en forme d'apoth茅ose)
Performer: Amandine Beyer. Ensemble: Gli Incogniti.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel
Les 茅l茅mens, simphonie nouvelle; Le cahos
Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV.
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5 REASONS TO LOVE: YOUTH ORCHESTRAS
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Claude Debussy
Pr茅lude 脿 l'apr猫s-midi d'un faune
Orchestra: Junge Deutsche Philharmonie. Conductor: Andrey Boreyko.- OEHMS.
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Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau
Pi猫ces de clavecin en concerts: Concert No 4 in B flat
Ensemble: London Baroque.- BIS.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR
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George Gershwin
Love walked in
Music Arranger: Percy Grainger. Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
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Percy Grainger
The Immovable Do (version for orchestra)
Conductor: Richard Hickox. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Philharmonic.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Schubert
Wehmut, D825
Choir: Bavarian Radio Chorus. Conductor: Wolfgang Sawallisch.- WARNER.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
础迟尘辞蝉辫丑猫谤别蝉
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Jonathan Nott.- WARNER.
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MARTIN SHAW'S CHOICE NO. 1
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George Frideric Handel
Messiah: Overture
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.- EMI.
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MARTIN SHAW'S CHOICE NO. 2
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Guitar Concerto de Aranjuez: 2nd movement
Performer: Narciso Yepes. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Luis Antonio Garc铆a Navarro.- DG.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Romance in B flat major for violin and piano, Op 28
Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.- Faure: Violin sonatas: Isabelle Faust/Florent Boffard.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: BENJAMIN GROSVENOR
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George Gershwin
Rhapsody in Blue
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.- DECCA.
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Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber
Sonata XV: The Coronation of the Virgin [Rosary Sonatas]
Performer: Andrew Manze, violin. Performer: Richard Egarr, organ.- HARMONIA MUNDI HMU.
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Essential Choice
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Hugo Wolf
Prometheus
Orchestra: German Symphony Orchestra Berlin. Conductor: Kent Nagano. Singer: Dietrich Henschel.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Symphony No 5 in B flat, Op 100
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- BIS.
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Broadcast
- Thu 7 May 2015 09:00大象传媒 Radio 3