Monday - Sarah Walker with Louis de Berni猫res
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite American Songs; Mendelssohn: Symphony No 5; Artists of the Week: Brodsky Quartet, featured in Dvorak's String Quartet.
9am
My favourite... American songs. Ranging from expressions of personal faith and childlike innocence to celebrations of American landscapes and jazz, Sarah chooses a handful of her favourite songs written by American composers including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Louis de Berni猫res. Well known for his worldwide bestselling tale of love and war Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis's other works include the acclaimed Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter, as well as collections of poetry and short stories. His latest major novel, The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the first instalment of a family saga that opens with the end of the Victorian era, was released last year. Louis is also a keen musician and plays the flute, the guitar and, of course, the mandolin. Louis will be talking about his life and his writing, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah, every day at 10am.
10:30am
Sarah features excerpts from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's Record Review
Mendelssohn
Reformation Symphony
11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Brodsky Quartet, named after the dedicatee of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Adolf Brodsky. The Brodskys are known for their insatiable desire to explore and expand the string quartet repertoire. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the quartet's passion for 'all good music' as she features their interpretations of classic quartets by Dvorak, Verdi, Debussy and Britten, as well as rare masterpieces by Respighi, Panufnik and Delius.
Dvorak
String Quartet, Op. 96 'American'
Brodsky Quartet.
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
'L'ho perduta' (The Marriage of Figaro)
Performer: Mauro Squillante. Performer: Mara Galassi. Singer: Marinella Pennicchi.- STRADIVARIUS.
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Johann David Heinichen
Dresden Concerto in G major, S.214
Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV.
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MY FAVOURITE...AMERICAN SONGS
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Leonard Bernstein
A Simple Song (Mass)
Singer: Alan Titus. Orchestra: The Cast Stage Band. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Polonaise-fantaisie, Op 61
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DG.
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Ottorino Respighi
Fountains of Rome
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Canzon primi toni 脿 8
Ensemble: Philip Jones Brass Ensemble.- DECCA ELOQUENCE.
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LOUIS DE BERNI脠RES' CHOICE NO.1
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Lute Suite in E minor, BWV996
Performer: John Williams.- CBS.
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LOUIS DE BERNI脠RES' CHOICE NO.2
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Francisco T谩rrega
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Performer: Andr茅s Segovia.- DG.
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LOUIS DE BERNI脠RES' CHOICE NO.3
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Claude Debussy
Syrinx
Performer: Katherine Bryan.- LINN.
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LOUIS DE BERNI脠RES' CHOICE NO.4
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Alessandro Marcello
II. Adagio (Oboe Concerto in D minor)
Performer: Marcel Ponseele. Ensemble: Il Gardellino.- ACCENT.
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THE BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION FROM LAST SATURDAY'S RECORD REVIEW
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Felix Mendelssohn
Symphony No 5 in D major, Op 107, 'Reformation;
Orchestra: Heidelberger Sinfoniker. Conductor: Thomas Fey.- HANSSLER CLASSIC.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: THE BRODSKY QUARTET
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
String Quartet in F major, Op 96, 'American'
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Franz Schubert
Der Tod und das M盲dchen, D 531
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Ian Bostridge. -
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Franz Schubert
An die Laute, D 905
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Singer: Ian Bostridge.- EMI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 in F major, BWV 1046
Performer: Paul Goodwin. Performer: Timothy Brown. Performer: Susan Dent. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Director: Catherine Mackintosh.- J.S. Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos; Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment.
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Mapping the Music
Answer: Venice
The music played:
Arban
Theme and Variations on 鈥楾he Carnival of Venice鈥�
Sergei Nakariakov (trumpet)
Alexander Markovich (piano)聽
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