Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Clare Balding
With Sarah Walker. Favourite Beecham Lollipops; Music in Time: Weinberg's Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes; Artists of the Week: Academy of Ancient Music, featured playing Mozart.
9am
My favourite... 'Beecham lollipops'. This week Sarah shares a selection of orchestral encores favoured by the acclaimed British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham. Beecham was a larger-than-life character whose musical gifts were matched by his acerbic wit and legendary anecdotes. Sarah chooses favourite lollipops including pieces by Chabrier, Delius, Sibelius, Grieg and Saint-Sa毛ns.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the broadcaster and writer Clare Balding. Clare is best known for her expert coverage of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. She was the lead presenter in Rio this summer, and won the BAFTA Special Award and RTS Presenter of the Year Award for the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Clare began broadcasting on radio in 1994 and became the main presenter of horse racing on 大象传媒 TV four years later. Since then her remit has broadened to cover almost every sport, from cricket and tennis to rugby and football. She is also the host of walking series Ramblings on Radio 4, and presents Good Morning Sunday on Radio 2, as well as having her own sports chat show, The Clare Balding Show. A bestselling author, Clare's autobiography My Animals and Other Family received critical and popular acclaim, and she has recently published her first children's book, The Racehorse Who Wouldn't Gallop. Clare shares some of her favourite classical music with Sarah throughout the week, including Caliban's Dream featuring Dame Evelyn Glennie, which was written for the opening ceremony of the 2012 Olympics, Mozart's A Musical Joke, which Clare remembers as the soundtrack to the 大象传媒 showjumping coverage, and her favourite carol, In The Bleak Midwinter.
10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Sarah places Music in Time. Today the focus is on the Modern era and the Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes by Mieczyslaw Weinberg, who fled his native Warsaw for the Soviet Union before the Nazis invaded Poland at the outbreak of the Second World War. Weinberg, who became a close friend of Shostakovich, spent most of his life in Moscow, where his music came under intense official scrutiny following the end of the war. During this fraught period, Soviet composers were required to rid their music of 'formalist' elements, and Weinberg's Rhapsody, a skillfully-wrought medley of folk tunes from his mother's native region culminating in a dance of almost manic energy, was his somewhat subversive response - luckily for him, at a time when anti-Semitism seems to have been official government policy, the authorities seemed oblivious to the Jewish accent of much of the work's musical material.
11am
Sarah's artists of the week are the trailblazing Academy of Ancient Music, founded in 1973 by Christopher Hogwood, whose rare combination of scholarship, musicianship and instrumental virtuosity shaped the orchestra's character from the start. Sarah's choices include the Academy's first recording, a disc of overtures by English composer Thomas Arne; both of their versions of Handel's Messiah, from 1980 and 2009; Mozart and Haydn's final symphonies; Schubert's 'Trout' Quintet, courtesy of The Academy of Ancient Music Chamber Ensemble and fortepianist Steven Lubin; and John Tavener's Eternity's Sunrise, written for the Academy with soprano Patricia Rozario in 1997.
Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C, K551 'Jupiter'
The Academy of Ancient Music
Christopher Hogwood (conductor).
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Divertimento in F major, K.138: III. Presto
Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.- DG.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto for 3 oboes, 3 violins and continuo in B flat major, TWV 44:43
Performer: Peter Westermann. Performer: Michael Niesemann. Performer: Piet Dhont. Performer: Reinhard Goebel. Performer: Mary Utiger. Performer: Hajo Bass. Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.- ARCHIV.
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Frederick Delius
Summer Evening
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.- EMI.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Scherzo No.2 in B flat minor, Op.31
Performer: Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli.- DG.
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Heinrich Isaac
Missa Virgo Prudentissima: Credo
Choir: Ensemble Gilles Binchois. Director: Dominique Vellard.- EVIDENCE.
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Robert Schumann
Adagio and Allegro for horn and piano, Op.70
Performer: Richard Watkins. Performer: Ian Brown.- Hyperion.
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Pietro Mascagni
Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.- EMI.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
A Musical Joke, K.522: IV. Presto
Performer: Gerd Seifert. Performer: Manfred Klier. Performer: Rainer Zepperitz. Ensemble: Amadeus Quartet.- DG.
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Denis King
Galloping Home (Black Beauty)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Stanley Black.- PICKWICK INTERNATIONAL.
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Gustav Holst
In the Bleak Midwinter
Performer: Philip Kenyon. Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: George Guest.- CHANDOS.
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Fran莽ois Couperin
Le reveil-matin (Pi猫ces de clavecin - ordre no.4)
Performer: Sophie Yates.- La Sophie: Sophie Yates.
- Chandos.
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Mieczys艂aw Weinberg
Rhapsody on Moldavian Themes, Op.47 No.1
Orchestra: Polish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gabriel Chmura.- CHANDOS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
French Suite No.6 in E major, BWV817
Performer: Murray Perahia.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major 'Jupiter', K551
Orchestra: 大象传媒 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thomas S酶nderg氓rd. -
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Igor Stravinsky
Mass for choir and wind ensemble
Choir: RIAS Chamber Choir. Ensemble: Ensemble Musikfabrik. Conductor: Daniel Reuss.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
Heard on Screen
Answer: Raging Bull and The Godfather III
The music played:
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Mascagni
Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo
Philharmonia Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
EMI
Broadcast
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