Thursday - Sarah Walker with Beeban Kidron
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: German lieder; Artist of the Week: pianist Steven Osborne, featured in Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No 2.
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: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of music?
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: Romantic
Sarah turns her attention to the Romantic era, and the rise in popularity and quality of the German Lied. It was Schubert who really put this type of art song on the musical map, paving the way for successors such as Schumann, Brahms and Wolf.
Followed by:
Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of one of Dvorak's Slavonic Dances.
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.
Prokofiev
Violin Sonata No. 2 in D major
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Steven Osborne (piano).
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Music Played
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Franz Schubert
Heidenroslein
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.- DG.
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Johan Svendsen
Norwegian rhapsody no.3 Op.21
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- Johan Svendsen: Orchestral works vol.2: Bergen Philharmonic/Jarvi.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Prelude & Fugue in F major, BuxWV145
Performer: Helmut Walcha.- ARCHIV.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Widerstehe doch der S眉nde,鈥疊WV54
Singer: Iestyn Davies. Orchestra: Arcangelo. Director: Jonathan Cohen.- HYPERION.
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Leroy Anderson
Jazz Pizzicato
Orchestra: The London Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Frederick Fennell.- MERCURY.
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Franz Liszt
Mazeppa
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Johannes Brahms
Ballade in G minor, Op.118 no.3
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- PHILIPS.
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Clara Schumann
Romance in B flat major, Op.22 no.3
Performer: Lisa Batiashvili. Performer: Alice Sara Ott.- Lisa Batiashvili plays Brahms & C. Schumann.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Beeban Kidron's CHoice no.1
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Giacomo Puccini
La Fanciulla del West: Act 3, 'Risparmiate lo scherno... Ch'ella mi creda'
Singer: Pl谩cido Domingo. Singer: Sherrill Milnes. Singer: Kim Josephson. Choir: Metropolitan Opera Chorus. Orchestra: Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin.- SONY.
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Beeban Kidron's CHoice no.2
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Ludwig van Beethoven
33 Variations on a Waltz by Diabelli, Op.120: variations 31-33
Performer: Maria Yudina.- PHILIPS.
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MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC
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Franz Schubert
Du bist die Ruh'; An die Musik
Performer: Helmut Deutsch. Singer: Matthias Goerne.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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DOUBLE TAKE
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in E minor Op.72 no.2
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- DECCA.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 No.2
Performer: Midori. Performer: Robert McDonald.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Concerto in D for 3 Trumpets, 2 oboes, strings and continuo
Performer: John Wallace. Ensemble: English String Orchestra. Conductor: William Boughton.- Telemann: Trumpet Concertos.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STEVEN OSBORNE
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Sergey Prokofiev
Violin Sonata No 2 in D major
Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Steven Osborne.- HYPERION.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 29 in A major, K.201
Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- LINN.
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Jean Sibelius
Drommarna [Dreams]
Choir: Accentus Chamber Choir. Conductor: Eric Ericson.- NAIVE.
Musical Challenge: By Association
Broadcast
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