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Friday - Sarah Walker with Maxwell Hutchinson

With Sarah Walker. Includes Musical challenge; Music on Location: Janacek: Jenufa (selection); Proms Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan, conducting Haydn's Symphony No 57.

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Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.鈥

9.30鈥
Take part in today's musical challenge:鈥痶wo pieces of music are played together - can you identify them?

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever鈥疨resident鈥痮f RIBA, the鈥疪oyal Institute of British Architects.鈥疕e's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on 大象传媒 Two, Channel Four and 大象传媒 Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

10.30
Music on Location
Sarah introduces music from Janacek's opera Jen暖fa - its staging in Prague in 1916 led the composer to international success.

11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor, Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent)鈥痑nd has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the G枚ttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 大象传媒 Scottish Symphony, Halle, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra.鈥疍uring the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major, K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.

Haydn
Symphony No. 57 in D major
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Edward Elgar

    Chanson de matin Op.15`2

    Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Peter Pettinger.
    • Elgar: Violin sonata etc: Kennedy/Pettinger.
    • Chandos.
    • 6.
  • Felice Anerio

    Salve Regina

    Orchestra: The Sixteen. Conductor: Eamonn Dougan.
    • CORO.
  • Aaron Copland

    Billy the Kid - ballet suite

    Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
    • RCA.
  • Francisco T谩rrega

    Etude in A major

    Performer: Julian Bream.
    • SONY.
  • Claude Debussy

    Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • DECCA.
  • Maxwell Hutchinson's First Choice

    • Edward Elgar

      Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84 (3rd mvt)

      Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Sorrel Quartet.
      • CHANDOS.
  • Maxwell Hutchinson's Second Choice

    • Hildegard von Bingen

      Antiphon: Caritas habundat in omnia

      Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Sarah Walker's Personal Shopper Choice for Maxwell Hutchinson

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes for organ: I. Bryn Calfaria

      Performer: Christopher Nickol.
      • PRIORY.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Bee's Wedding (Songs without words - bk.6 Op.67)

    Orchestrator: Don Banks. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.
  • Music on Location: Prague

    • Leos Jan谩膷ek

      Jenufa: final scene

      Singer: Elisabeth S枚derstr枚m. Singer: Eva Randov谩. Singer: Wies艂aw Ochman. Choir: Vienna Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
      • DECCA.
  • Franz Schubert

    Drei Klavierst眉cke, D 946 (No 1 in E flat minor)

    Performer: Rudolf Firku拧n媒.
    • 大象传媒.
  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Violin Sonata in G major, Op 5 No 6

    Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
    • Hyperion.
    • 26.
  • Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No.57 in D major

      Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.
      • PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE.
  • Samuel Wesley

    Blessed be the God and Father

    Performer: Adrian Partington. Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Donald Hunt.
    • Cathedral Anthems By S S Wesley - 1.
    • Hyperion.
    • 1.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor Op.22

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • DECCA.

Musical Challenge: Imperfect Harmony

The two pieces we heard simultaneously were the first movement of聽Saint-Saens's Piano Concerto No.2 in G minor & Bach's 'Great' Fantasia & Fugue BWV542, also in G minor.

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