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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Beeban Kidron

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Biber's Missa Salisburgensis; Artist of the Week: pianist Steven Osborne, featured playing Tippett's Piano Concerto.

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: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical personality.

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: Baroque
Sarah delves into the Baroque period, with its taste for lavish musical displays. Today she explores the music of the Bohemian composer Biber, whose Missa Salisburgensis - composed for the spacious interior of Salzburg Cathedral - employs a vast array of voices and instruments.

Followed by a new feature:

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of a keyboard piece by Scarlatti.

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.

Tippett
Piano Concerto
Steven Osborne (piano)
大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra
Martyn Brabbins (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Pater Ignatius Augustiner

    Ein sch枚ner Aufzug

    Ensemble: Gabrieli Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Patrick Hadley

    My beloved spake

    Performer: Andrew Lucas. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.
    • HYPERION.
  • Constant Lambert

    The Rio Grande

    Singer: Sally Burgess. Performer: Jack Gibbons. Choir: Chorus of Opera North. Orchestra: Orchestra of Opera North. Conductor: David Lloyd-Jones.
    • Lambert: Summer's Last Will and Testament; The Rio Grande.
    • HYPERION.
    • 1.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    F锚te polonaise (Le roi malgr茅 lui)

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • Paray Conducts Chabrier & Roussel.
    • Mercury.
    • 6.
  • Ferruccio Busoni

    Sonatina No.3 'ad usum infantis'

    Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • EMI.
  • Marco Dall鈥橝quila

    Saltarello "La Traditora"

    Performer: Jakob Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Oboe Concerto in G minor S.237

    Performer: Andreas Helm. Orchestra: Irish Baroque Orchestra. Director: Monica Huggett.
    • LINN.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Gayane: Sabre Dance

    Performer: Sarah Chang. Performer: Sandra Rivers. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • EMI.
  • BEEBAN KIDRON'S CHOICE NO. 1

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Cello Suite No.1 in G major, BWV 1007: 1. Prelude

      Performer: Jacqueline du Pr茅.
      • EMI.
  • BEEBAN KIDRON'S CHOICE NO. 2

    • Mieczys艂aw Weinberg

      The Passenger, Op.97: Act 2, scene 8

      Singer: Tobias H盲chler. Orchestra: Wiener Symphoniker. Choir: Prague Philharmonic Choir. Conductor: Teodor Currentzis.
      • NEOS.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A major, K 386

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.
    • CBS.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: Baroque

    • Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber

      Missa Salisburgensis: Kyrie & Gloria

      Ensemble: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Director: Reinhard Goebel. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.
      • ARCHIV.
  • Double Take

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in A major Kk.208

      Performer: Pierre Hanta茂.
      • MIRARE.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A major Kk.208

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Anders Hillborg

    The Strand Settings (Dark Harbour XI)

    Singer: Ren茅e Fleming. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.
    • DECCA.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STEVEN OSBORNE

    • Michael Tippett

      Piano Concerto

      Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins.
      • HYPERION.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Clarinet Sonata in E flat major, Op.167 (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Martin Frost. Performer: Roland P枚ntinen.
    • BIS.
  • Charles Williams

    Devil's Galop

    Orchestra: The New London Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • British Light Music Classics vol.1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 9.

Musical Challenge: Mystery Person

The Mystery Person was the violin prodigy Sarah Chang.

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