Friday - Sarah Walker with Martin Shaw
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Youth Orchestras; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Benjamin Grosvenor; Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Symphony No 3.
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 our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
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
Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55 (Eroica)
Orchestra of the 18th Century
Frans Br眉ggen (conductor).
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Luciano Berio
Folk Songs; Azerbaijan Love Song
Ensemble: Juilliard Ensemble. Conductor: Luciano Berio. Singer: Cathy Berberian.- RCA.
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Gioachino Rossini
Il Turco in Italia (Overture)
Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.- DG.
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William Byrd
Circumdederunt me dolores mortis
Ensemble: Contrapunctus. Director: Owen Rees.- SIGNUM.
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5 Reasons to Love... Youth Orchestras
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Alberto Ginastera
Dances from Estancia, Op 8a
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG.
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Adolf Schulz-Evler
Arabesques on a theme from 'The Beautiful Blue Danube'
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.- DECCA.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
O Jesu mi dulcissime, C56
Choir: Ex Cathedra Choir. Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Ensemble: Concerto Palatino. Conductor: Jeffrey Skidmore.- HYPERION.
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Martin Shaw's Choice No. 1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Le Nozze di Figaro - " Cosa Mi Narri"
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Martin Shaw's Choice No. 2
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Giacomo Puccini
La Boheme (O soave Fanciulla)
Singer: Mirella Freni. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DECCA.
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Ottorino Respighi
Ancient Airs and Dances, Suite 1, 3rd mvt :Villanella
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Franz Liszt
Piano Concerto No 2 in A, S125
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor (piano). Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. -
Essential Choice
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No 3 in E flat, Op 55
Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Toccata in F, BWV 540
Performer: Ton Koopman (organ of St Jacobi-Kirche, Hamburg).
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