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Sarah鈥痵ets the tone and mood of the day's鈥痯rogramme鈥痺ith a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.鈥�鈥�

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Take part in today's musical challenge: identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is one of the world's leading sound-recordists, Chris Watson. Chris started out as a musician, he was a founding member of the influential Sheffield-based experimental music group, Cabaret Voltaire, but he soon put the microphone to other uses enjoying a career recording sound for film, tv and radio. He has specialised in recording wildlife and natural phenomena, striving, in his words, to put the microphone where you can't put your ears. He has contributed to a number of David Attenborough documentaries in the Life and Frozen Planet series and has released albums of his field recordings. As well as discussing his work and life, Chris will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

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Music in Time:鈥� Romantic
Sarah visits the Romantic era for a dazzling showpiece by Robert Schumann. He composed his Konzertst眉ck in F major for 4 horns in 1849, not long after the chromatic valve-horn had been invented; the flexibility and potential of the new instrument are exploited in this highly virtuoso work - for many years considered virtually unplayable.

Double Take鈥�
Sarah鈥痚xplores the dramatic differences between two鈥痠nterpretations of the verse anthem This is the Record of John, by Orlando Gibbons, contrasting the pioneering 1959 recording by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge under David Willcocks, with the folk-like interpretation by Red Byrd.

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Sarah's Artist of the Week is the Swedish mezzo-soprano, Anne Sofie von Otter. She's regarded as one of the finest singers of her generation, celebrated for her work on stage and in recital. She won a Grammy Award for her recording of Mahler's Des Knaben Wunderhorn and has been named Artist of the Year by both the International Record Critics Association and Gramophone. On the stage, she's renowned for her performances of Mozart, Handel and Richard Strauss, and in recital she excels in Romantic song. She has also collaborated with non-classical musicians such as Elvis Costello and Brad Mehldau. Sarah reflects this great diversity throughout the week with a selection encompassing intimate Dowland lute songs, song cycles by Robert Schumann and Ravel, and roles from opera and musical theatre.

Ravel
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Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Cleveland Orchestra
Pierre Boulez (conductor).