Monday - Sarah Walker with Vivienne Parry
With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Lute Music; Music in Time: Handel: Music for Royal Fireworks; Artist of the Week: flautist Aurele Nicolet, featured in Mozart's Sinfonia Concertante.
9am
My favourite... lute music. Sarah shares a selection of her favourite pieces written for the lute, with works by Vivaldi, Dowland and Bach played by such celebrated lutenists as Jakob Lindberg, Christopher Wilson, Nigel North and Paul O'Dette.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: which location is being depicted in this piece of music?
10am
Sarah's guest is the science writer and broadcaster Vivienne Parry. A scientist by training, Vivienne is best known for having presented the 大象传媒 television series Tomorrow's World, and for her Radio 4 programmes which include Just So Science, about the science behind the animals of the Just So stories, and the multi award winning series Am I Normal? Vivienne writes for newspapers including The Times and The Guardian, and is science editor of Good Housekeeping magazine. Her book, The Truth About Hormones, was nominated for the Aventis Science Prize. Throughout the week Vivienne talks to Sarah about her passion for communicating science, and shares her favourite pieces of classical music.
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.
Followed by Music in Time
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah places Music in Time as she looks at the way music moved away from modal harmony towards a fully-fledged diatonic system during the Baroque period, showing how the minuet from Handel's Music for Royal Fireworks is a fine example of this.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Swiss flautist Aur猫le Nicolet. Nicolet, who died earlier this year, was considered one of the world's greatest flute players of the late twentieth century. Several composers, including Takemitsu and Ligeti, wrote music especially for him, while Nicolet's pupils include Emmanuel Pahud, Michael Faust and Thierry Fischer. Nicolet was principal flautist in the Berlin Philharmonic during the 1950s, but enjoyed a highly successful career as a soloist as well. Throughout the week Sarah explores his vast recording legacy, featuring Nicolet as soloist in concertos by Mozart, CPE Bach, Couperin and Moscheles, and as a chamber musician in Debussy's Sonata for flute, viola and harp.
Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante, K.297b
Aur猫le Nicolet (flute)
Heinz Holliger (oboe)
Hermann Baumann (horn)
Klaus Thunemann (bassoon)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Neville Marriner (conductor).
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Aur脠le Nicolet
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No.2 in B minor, BWV1067: VI. Menuet
Performer: Aur猫le Nicolet. Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.- ARCHIV.
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Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Symphony in G major, Wq.183 No.4
Orchestra: Munich Bach Orchestra. Conductor: Karl Richter.- DG.
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Franz Schubert
Impromptu in G flat major, Op.90 No.3
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.- ONYX.
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John Dowland
Lachrimae Pavan, P.15
Performer: Nigel North.- NAXOS.
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Carl Nielsen
Snefrid Suite: Snefrid's sleep
Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.- Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
- Dacapo.
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Frederick Delius
A Village Romeo and Juliet: The Walk to the Paradise Garden
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Myer Fredman.- LYRITA.
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Percy Grainger
The lonely desert-man sees the tents of the happy tribes
Singer: Mark Padmore. Choir: Joyful Company of Singers. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- Grainger Edition Vol.3: Works for Chorus & Orchestra: JCS, CLS, Hickox.
- Chandos.
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Josquin des Prez
El grillo
Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble.- EMI.
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vivienne parry's choice No.1
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Nocturne in C minor, Op 48 No 1
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- Nocturne in C Minor, op 48 no.1.
- DG.
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vivienne parry's choice No.2
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Samson & Delilah: "Mon Coeur s'ouvre a ta voix"
Singer: Olga Borodina. Singer: Jos茅 Cura. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.- ERATO.
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Edward Elgar
La Capricieuse Op.17
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- Chandos.
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MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE
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George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks
Orchestra: London Classical Players. Conductor: Sir Roger Norrington.- VIRGIN.
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Oliver Knussen
Flourish with Fireworks
Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.- DG.
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Peter Warlock
Pavane (Capriol Suite)
Ensemble: Equale Brass.- NIMBUS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Sinfonia Concertante in E flat major, K.297b
Performer: Aur猫le Nicolet. Performer: Heinz Holliger. Performer: Hermann Baumann. Performer: Klaus Thunemann. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- PHILIPS.
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Robert Schumann
Albumblatter, Op.124: No.6 Wiegenliedchen
Performer: Vladimir Feltsman.- NIMBUS.
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Johannes Brahms
Serenade No.2 in A major, Op.16 (I. Allegro moderato)
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
Mapping the Music
Answer: the desert
The music played:
Reich
The Desert Music: fifth movement聽
Steve Reich and Musicians
Chorus and Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic
Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)
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