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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Soile Isokoski in Strauss: Lieder. Tchaikovsky: Eugene Onegin (exct); Nielsen: Symphony No 4. The Building a Library recommendation.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt - Favourite Piano Works performed by Jorge Bolet

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, Soile Isokoski (Strauss lieder & the Letter Scene from Tchaikovsky's Eugene Onegin).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest in the week of International Women's Day (8th March) is entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she reveals the first piece of classical music she bought herself and music to relax to.

11am
Nielsen
Symphony No.4
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 5 Mar 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Moritz Moszkowski

    Spanish Dance in A major (Op.12 No.3)

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Ata煤lfo Argenta (conductor)

    • LONDON 433 911-2.

  • 9.03: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Consolation No.3

      Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

      • DECCA 444 851-2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Oboe Quartet, K.370

    Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), Members of the Orlando Quartet

    • BRILLIANT 940547.

  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado, Op.23 No.2

    Performers: Sarah Chang (violin), Charles Abramovic (piano)

    • EMI 56161.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Ruy Blas, Op.95

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 423 104-2.

  • Lalo orch. Piern茅

    Guitarre, Op.28

    Performers: Philippe Graffin (violin), Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer (orchestra)

    • HYPERION CDH55396.

  • 9.53: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Richard Strauss

      Ruhe, meine Seele!, Op.27 No.1; Morgen!, Op.27 No.4; Das Rosenband, Op.36 No.1

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano); Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Marek Janowski (conductor)

      • ONDINE ODE 982-2.

  • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

    Concerto a cinque in F major for trumpet and oboe

    Performers: Maurice Andr茅 (trumpet), Maurice Bourgue (oboe), W眉rtemberg Chamber Orchestra, J枚rg Faerber (conductor)

    • EMI SERAPHIM 569141-2.

  • 10.17: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Letter Scene (Eugene Onegin, Act II)

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra, Mikko Frank (conductor)

      • ONDINE ODE 1126-2.

  • 10.30: Stephanie Shirley's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Final movement of Violin Concerto No.5 in A major, K.219 'Turkish'

      Performers: Jascha Heifetz (violin), London Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Sargent (conductor)

      • NAXOS 8.111288.

  • Franz Liszt

    Harmonies du Soir (12 Transcendental Studies, S139 No.11)

    Performers: Nelson Freire (piano)

    • DECCA 478 2728.

  • 11am: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

    • Carl Nielsen

      Symphony No.4

Broadcast

  • Mon 5 Mar 2012 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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