Friday - Sarah Walker with Monty Don
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Music for Wind Band; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: violinist Maxim Vengerov, featured in Ravel's Tzigane.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... music for wind band'. Sarah is a fan of the distinctive timbre of wind band music and showcases this in works by Walton, Vaughan Williams, Grainger and Milhaud.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
In the week of the RHS Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest every day at 10am is one of the hosts of the show, the presenter, writer and gardener Monty Don. Monty will be telling Sarah about how music has played an important role in his life, and about the therapy of gardening. He shares a selection of his favourite classical music, including extracts from Bach's St Matthew Passion, Beethoven's Symphony No. 3 'Eroica' and Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Russian violinist Maxim Vengerov. Born into a family with strong musical traditions, Vengerov was a child prodigy who had won the both the Wieniawski and Carl Flesch international competitions by the time he was 15. Sarah dips into Vengerov's many acclaimed recordings throughout the week, choosing works ranging from great Romantic concertos - virtuoso masterpieces that show off the instrument's range and brilliance - to more reflective transcriptions.
Ravel
Tzigane
Maxim Vengerov (violin)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Antonio Pappano (conductor).
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Music Played
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Gabriel Fauré
Papillon Op.77
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.- HYPERION.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Trumpet Overture in C major, op. 101
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Darius Milhaud
Suite francaise
Conductor: Denis Wick. Orchestra: London Wind Orchestra.- ASV.
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 6 for Orchestra ‘Carnival in Pesth’
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- MERCURY.
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Johann David Heinichen
Concerto in G major, S215
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua Köln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV.
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Zoltán Kodály
Hary Janos Suite: The Viennese Clock
Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica. Conductor: Antal Doráti.- DECCA.
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Henry Purcell
Thy hand, Belinda... When I am laid (Dido and Aeneas)
Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Anthony Lewis.- DECCA.
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Maurice Ravel
Le jardin féerique (Ma mère l'oye)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Monteux.- PHILIPS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite No.2 in C minor, BWV813
Performer: Maria João Pires.- DG.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.8 in F major, Op.93
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- TELDEC.
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Franz Schubert
Seligkeit, D 433
Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Felicity Lott.- Felicity Lott sings Schubert.
- I.M.P. Classics.
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Maurice Ravel
Tzigane
Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- EMI.
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Norbert Burgmüller
Duo, Op.15
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- CHANDOS.
Recording Rewind
Kodaly
Hary
Janos Suite: The Viennese Clock
Philharmonia Hungarica
Antal Dorati (conductor)
DECCA 443 006-2
Broadcast
- Fri 22 May 2015 09:00´óÏó´«Ã½ Radio 3