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Monday - Sarah Walker with Oliver Jeffers

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Spanish Dance; Music in Time: Schubert lieder; Artist of the Week: viola player Tabea Zimmermann, featured performing Reger's Suite in D.

9am
My favourite... Spanish dances. As nationalist feelings emerged during the revolutions of 19th century Europe, composers turned to the forms and styles of their native countries to emphasise their cultural heritage. In Spain composers such as Granados and Falla led the way, creating a style of music that became immensely popular across the continent. Sarah features examples by those two composers, and by followers of the style including Moritz Moszkowski, Mikhail Glinka and Maurice Ravel.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Sarah's guest is the artist and illustrator, Oliver Jeffers. Oliver's work ranges from figurative painting and installations to picture book making. His books, which include The Incredible Book Eating Boy and Once Upon An Alphabet, have been translated into over thirty languages, and The Day The Crayons Quit, and its sequel The Day The Crayons Came Home, were both number one New York Times bestsellers. Oliver has won awards including The New York Times Best Illustrated Books, Smarties Award, The Red House Book Award, British Book Design Award, and The Blue Peter Book of the Year. Working in collaboration with Studio AKA, his second book Lost and Found was developed into an animated short film that has received over sixty awards, including a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film. Throughout the week Oliver talks about his art and illustrations and shares a selection of his favourite pieces of classical music, including works by Bizet, Mascagni and Beethoven.

10.30am
Power of Three - The next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 大象传媒 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah places Music in Time, heading back to the Romantic period and Franz Schubert's lieder, for which he developed a new type of piano accompaniment.

11am
Sarah's artist of the week is one of the world's leading viola players, Tabea Zimmermann, whose playing is celebrated for its breadth, suppleness, and singing tone. These qualities are demonstrated throughout the week, in music ranging from 20th-century masterpieces that Zimmermann has championed, including the Viola Concerto by Bartok and the Viola Sonata by Rebecca Clarke, to more intimate works, such as an elegy by Glazunov, a suite for solo viola by Max Reger, and Berlioz's Harold in Italy - a lyrical meditation on Lord Byron's Childe Harold.

Reger
Suite in D major
Tabea Zimmermann (solo viola).

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Mon 7 Nov 2016 09:00
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Artist of the week: Tabea Zimmermann

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Suite No.1 in G major, BWV1007: Courante

      Performer: Tabea Zimmermann.
      • MYRIOS CLASSICS.

  • My favourite...spanish dances

    • Manuel de Falla

      Suite No.2 from The Three-Cornered Hat

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.
      • WARNER.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Intermezzo in B flat minor Op.117 no.2

    Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • DECCA.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    Novelettes, Op.15: No.5 All'Ungherese

    Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.
    • SIMAX.

  • Antonio Salieri

    Sinfonia in D major, 'Il giorno onomastico'

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Matthias Bamert.
    • Chandos.

  • William Mathias

    Let the people praise thee, O God. Op.87

    Choir: Wells Cathedral Choir. Performer: Jonathan Vaughn. Conductor: Matthew Owens.
    • William Mathias: Choral Music: Wells Cathedral Choir/Matthew Owens.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.

  • Oliver Jeffers' Choice no.1

    • Georges Bizet

      Carmen, Act I: 'L'amour est un oiseau rebelle'

      Singer: Maria Callas. Choir: Ch艙ur Ren茅 Duclos. Orchestra: National Theater Opera Orchestra of Paris. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
      • EMI.

  • Oliver Jeffers' Choice no.2

    • Maurice Ravel

      Bolero

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
      • DG.

  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes, Book 1: No.4 Les Sons et les parfums tournent

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Franz Schubert

      Gretchen am Spinnrade, D.118

      Performer: Geoffrey Parsons. Singer: Christa Ludwig.
      • EMI.

    • Franz Schubert

      Erlkonig, D.328

      Performer: Geoffrey Parsons. Singer: Christa Ludwig.
      • EMI.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Kossuth

    Orchestra: Hungarian National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Hungaroton.

  • Artist of the week: Tabea Zimmermann

    • Max Reger

      Suite in D major, Op.131d No.2

      Performer: Tabea Zimmermann.
      • MYRIOS CLASSICS.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Overture in C major, Op 115 (Name Day)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • Beethoven: Symphony No.9: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig/ Chailly.
    • Decca.
    • 1.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No.2 in C minor, Op.18

    Performer: Howard Shelley. Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.

Mapping the Music

Answer: Wales

The music played:

Trad.
Dafydd y garreg wen [David of the White Rock]
Rachel Ann Morgan (mezzo-soprano/celtic harp)
ETCETERA

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    大象传媒 Radio 3

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