Friday - Sarah Walker with Chris Watson
With Sarah Walker. Musical challenge; Music in Time: Bach: Brandenburg Concerto No 6; Artist of the Week: Anne Sofie von Otter, featured in Schumann: Frauenliebe und -Leben.
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Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery musical object.
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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: Baroque
Sarah explores one of the great treasures of Baroque music, J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos. In 1721 he presented a set of six concertos "for several instruments" to the Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt; today Sarah explores the Sixth Concerto in B flat major.
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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.
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Frauenliebe und -leben, Op.42
Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano)
Bengt Forsberg (piano).
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Prelude in G minor, Op.23 No.5
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- DECCA.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
St John Passion: Opening Chorus (sung in English)
Choir: Crouch End Festival Chorus. Orchestra: Bach Camerata. Conductor: David Temple.- CHANDOS.
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Robert Schumann
Fantasiest眉cke, Op.73
Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.- HYPERION.
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Wilhelm Peterson鈥怋erger
Marits visor: Kom bukken til gutten ('Come Little Buck to the Boy')
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.- DG.
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Marits visor: The Sun shines prettily
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
Parthia in B flat major for wind ensemble
Ensemble: Consortium Classicum.- TELDEC.
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Duke Ellington
Far East Suite: Mount Harissa
Orchestra: Duke Ellington Orchestra.- RCA VICTOR.
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Gustav Mahler
Urlicht, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Richard Strauss
Alpine Symphony, Op.64: Auf der Alm
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- Strauss, Eine Alpensinfonie: LSO.
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Leonard Bernstein
Symphonic Dances from West Side Story: Mambo
Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.- DG.
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Erik Satie
Gnossienne No 1 in F minor (Gnossiennes Set 1)
Performer: Anne Queff茅lec.- Satie: Gymnopedies, Gnossiennes & Sports et Divertissements: Anne Queffelec.
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Chris Watson's Second Choice
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Performer: Joe Browning.- 厂狈鈥疺础搁滨础罢滨翱狈厂.
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Sarah Walker's Personal Shopper Choice for Chris Watson
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Claude Debussy
Preludes,鈥疊ook 1: Nos. 4 & 5
Music Arranger: Colin Matthews. Orchestra: Hall茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.- HALLE.
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Music in Time: Baroque
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.6, BWV 1051
Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- ELATUS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Solo Cello Suite no.3 in C major, BWV.1009 (Allemande)
Performer: Anner Bylsma.- RCA.
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Artist of the Week: Anne Sofie von Otter
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Robert Schumann
Frauenliebe und leben, Op.42鈥�
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.99 in E flat
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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Wilhelm Peterson鈥怋erger
Marits visor: Holder du af mig ('If You Love Me')
Performer: Bengt Forsberg. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.- DG.
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Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- DG.
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Musical Challenge: Mystery Object
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