Monday - Sarah Walker with Beeban Kidron
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Medieval; Artist of the Week: pianist Steven Osborne, featured playing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No 29 'Hammerklavier'.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played in reverse.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the film director Beeban Kidron. Beeban came to prominence in 1989 with the BAFTA award-winning TV adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and since then she's directed television dramas, documentaries and feature films including Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. In 2006 Beeban founded the charity Filmclub, an organisation which sets up after-school film clubs in schools in England and Wales and in 2012 she was made a life peer. As well as discussing her life and career, Beeban shares some her favourite classical music, from Puccini and Mozart to Messiaen.
10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Travelling back to the fourteenth century, Sarah explores a selection of Medieval Scottish hymns written in praise of St Columba, and featuring an ancient instrument that was popular at this time: the triple pipes.
11am
Artist of the Week
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne. A fervent champion of 20th-century music, Osborne so impressed Messiaen's widow with a performance of Trois Petites Liturgies that she invited him to Paris to study Messiaen's larger piano works, and his recording of the epic piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-J茅sus is among the finest accounts on disc. He has also recorded the complete piano works of Tippett, including the colourful and somewhat neglected Piano Concerto. As a chamber musician, Osborne had worked with some of the world's leading musicians, and this week Sarah features him in Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2 (with Alina Ibragimova) and Schubert's Variations on an Original Theme, D813 (with Paul Lewis), as well as Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Piano Sonata.
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat, Op. 106 'Hammerklavier'
Steven Osborne (piano).
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Artist of the Week: Steven Osborne
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
24 Preludes in Jazz Style Op.53 (no.17)
Performer: Steven Osborne.- HYPERION.
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George Gershwin
An American in Paris (orchestral version)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Andr茅 Previn.- Previn plays Gershwin, Rhapsody in Blue, London Symphony Orchestra.
- EMI.
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Henry Purcell
I was glad
Performer: Harry Bicket. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Director: Simon Preston.- ARCHIV.
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Benjamin Britten
A Hymn of St Columba
Performer: James O鈥橠onnell. Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.- Hyperion.
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Gioachino Rossini
Il Signor Bruschino: Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- EMI.
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Charles Avison
Trio Sonata in G major, Op.5 No.1
Ensemble: Avison Ensemble.- DIVINE ART.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
The Swan (The Carnival of the Animals)
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Dudley Moore. Performer: Michael Tilson Thomas.- RCA.
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Beeban Kidron's Choice No. 1
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Pange lingua gloriosi
Choir: Tenebrae. Director: Nigel Short.- SIGNUM.
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Beeban Kidron's Choice No. 2
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Waltz 1 (Jazz Suite no.2)
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- DECCA.
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Beeban Kidron's Choice No. 3
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Olivier Messiaen
Quartet for the End of Time: 2. Vocalise pour l'Ange qui annonce la fin du Temps
Performer: Huguette Fernandez. Performer: Guy Deplus. Performer: Jacques Nielz. Performer: Marie-Madeleine Petit.- WARNER.
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Thomas Weelkes
O care thou wilt dispatch mee
Music Arranger: Mark Kroll. Ensemble: Canadian Brass.- Canadian Brass: English Renaissance Music.
- CBS.
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Music in Time: Medieval
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Anon. c.1340
Os mutorum, lux cecorum (Office of St Columba)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.- DELPHIAN.
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Anon. c.1340
Sanctorum piisime Columba (Office of St Columba)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.- DELPHIAN.
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Anon. c.1340
Carne solutus pater Columba (Antiphon with Psalm 100)
Performer: Barnaby Brown. Choir: Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge. Conductor: Geoffrey Webber.- DELPHIAN.
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James MacMillan
Mouth of the Dumb (Os mutorum)
Performer: Lucy Wakeford. Singer: Andrew Swait. Singer: Samantha Harris.- NMC.
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Anton Webern
Im Sommerwind
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- Eugene Ormandy - Brahms R. Strauss Webern Kabalevsky Rachmaninov Sibelius.
- EMI Classics.
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Artist of the Week: Steven Osborne
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata No. 29 in B flat, Op.106 'Hammerklavier'
Performer: Steven Osborne.- HYPERION.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Horn Concerto no.1 in D major K.412
Performer: Anthony Halstead. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- Mozart: The Horn Concertos - Halstead, The Academy of Ancient Music.
- Decca.
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Musical Challenge: Recording Rewind
Broadcast
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Time Travellers: the podcast
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