Thursday - Sarah Walker with Wasfi Kani
With Sarah Walker. Including Music on Location: Elgar's Cockaigne Overture; Artist of the Week: Edward Gardner, featured conducting Lutoslawski's Chantefleurs et Chantefables.
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Sarah explores Elgar's Cockaigne Overture, a portrait of the city at the turn of the 20th century. Elgar himself described it as 'stout and steaky'.
Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two recordings of a Scherzo for cello and piano by Debussy, with cellists Jean-Guihen Queyras and Steven Isserlis.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a r茅p茅titeur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra (大象传媒SO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the 大象传媒SO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and 尝耻迟辞蝉艂补飞蝉办颈's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
尝耻迟辞蝉艂补飞蝉办颈
Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Lucy Crowe (soprano)
大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
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Reinhard Keiser
Croesus (Overture)
Orchestra: Berlin Academy for Early Music. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs.- Keiser: Croesus: Rene Jacobs.
- Harmonia Mundi.
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Claude Debussy
2 Arabesques for piano
Performer: Simon Trpceski.- Debussy: Images/Children's Corner etc: Simon Trpceski.
- EMI Classics.
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Kerry Andrew
Archbishop Parker's Psalm 150
Choir: ORA. Director: Suzi Digby.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Ensemble: Central Band of the Royal Air Force. Conductor: Wing Commander Duncan Stubbs.- CHANDOS.
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Richard Strauss
Das Rosenband, Op.36 No.1
Singer: Christine Sch盲fer. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- Mozart/Strauss: Arias: Christine Schafer/Berliner Philharmoniker/Abbado.
- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Jean Fran莽aix
Quartet for cor anglais, violin, viola and cello (1st mvt)
Ensemble: Britten Oboe Quartet.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Sleeping Beauty: Panorama; Valse
Performer: Mari Kodama. Performer: Momo Kodama.- PENTATONE.
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Wasfi Kani's choice
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphony No.3 in E flat major, 'Eroica': I. Allegro con brio
Orchestra: West鈥揈astern Divan Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.- DECCA.
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George Frideric Handel
As steals the morn (L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)
Singer: Lucy Crowe. Singer: Mark Padmore. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Andrew Manze. -
Music on Location: London
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Edward Elgar
Cockaigne Overture
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.- EMI.
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Double Take
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Claude Debussy
Nocturne and Scherzo
Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Claude Debussy
Nocturne and Scherzo: Scherzo
Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.- RCA.
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Heinrich Isaac
Tartara
Ensemble: Fretwork.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: EDWARD GARDNER
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Witold 尝耻迟辞蝉艂补飞蝉办颈
Chantefleurs et Chantefables
Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: 大象传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
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Robert Schumann
Piano Quintet Op 44 (1st mvt)
Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes. Ensemble: Artemis Quartet.- VIRGIN CLASSICS.
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Jonathan Dove
Into thy hands
Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- SIGNUM.
Musical Challenge: By Association
The 2 composers we heard were Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninov - music form Tchaikovsky鈥檚 ballet the Sleeping beauty, transcribed for piano duet by Rachmaninov.
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