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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: soprano Soile Isokoski. Puccini: La boheme (excerpt). Mozart: Ch'io mi scordi di te?; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Don Juan.

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 (Puccini's La Boheme & Mozart's Ch'io mi scordi di te?).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today, she reveals a work that she finds particularly moving and a piece that makes her laugh.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Strauss
Don Juan
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor)
DECCA 430 445-2.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 7 Mar 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Dohnanyi

    Widmung (Winterreigen, Op.13) ['Dedication' from Winter Round Dances]

    Performers: Martin Roscoe (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA6787.
  • Frederick Delius

    In a Summer Garden

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI 379983-2.
  • 9.17: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Mephisto Waltz No.1

      Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

      • DECCA 444 851-2.
  • 9.33: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Giacomo Puccini

      "Si. Mi chiamano Mimì" (La Bohème)

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

      • ONDINE ODE 1126-2.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Cello Sonata in D major, Op.102 No.2

    Performers: Pieter Wispelwey (cello), Dejan Lazic (piano)

    • CHANNEL CLASSICS CCS SA22605.
  • 10.02am

    • Liadov

      The Enchanted Lake

      Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)

      • NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037.
  • 10.10: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Ch'io mi scordi di te?, K.505

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marita Viitasalo (piano), Tapiola Sinfonietta, Peter Schreier (conductor)

      • ONDINE ODE 1043-2.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Allegro from Les Vendredis

    Performers: Vertavo String Quartet

    • SIMAX PSC1178.
  • Abel

    Abel - Arpeggiata

    Performers: Paolo Pandolfo (viola da gamba)

  • 10.30: Stephanie Shirley's Choices

    • Henry Purcell

      Dido and Aeneas (conclusion – Dido's Lament and concluding chorus)

      Performers: Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano), The St. Anthony Singers, Thurston Dart (harpsichord), English Chamber Orchestra, Anthony Lewis (conductor)

      • DECCA 425 702-2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    The Cat Duet

    Performers: Victoria de los Angeles & Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (sopranos), Gerald Moore (piano)

    • EMI CDC749794-2.
  • 10.45am

    • Zoltán Kodály

      Dances of Marosszek

      Performers: Budapest Festival Orchestra, Ivan Fischer (conductor)

      • HUNGAROTON HCD 31324.
  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Richard Strauss

      Don Juan

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Georg Solti (conductor)

      • DECCA 430 445-2.
  • Frederick Delius

    La Calinda

    Performers: Halle Orchestra, Sir John Barbirolli (conductor)

    • EMI 379983-2.
  • 11.25am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Piano Concerto No.3 in C minor

      Performers: Yefim Bronfman (piano), Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich, David Zinman (conductor)

      • ARTE NOVA 82876 64010-2.

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  • Wed 7 Mar 2012 09:00

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