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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: soprano Soile Isokoskil; Entrepreneur and philanthropist Stephanie Shirleyl; Sarah's Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: The Bells.

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.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today, she chooses music featuring a great performer of the 20th century, and Sarah acts as a personal shopper offering a piece which she hopes Dame Stephanie will enjoy.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Rachmaninov
The Bells
Natali Troitskaya (soprano)
Ryszard Karczykowski (tenor)
Tom Krause (baritone)
Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chorus
Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
DECCA 414 455-2.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 9 Mar 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Joseph Martin Kraus

    Elmire's Dance from Soliman II

    Performers: Concerto Koln & Sarband

    • ARCHIV 474 992-2.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Suite in G minor (possibly the overture to his lost opera Nero HWV453)

    reconstr. Holman Performers: The Parley of Instruments, Peter Holman (director)

    • HYPERION CDH55324.
  • 9.11am: Sarah's CD of the Week

    • Franz Liszt

      Sonetto 104 del Petrarca (Annees de Pelerinage, 2eme Annee - Italie)

      Performers: Jorge Bolet (piano)

      • DECCA 444 851-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Divertimento, K.213

    Performers: Chamber Orchestra of Europe Wind Soloists

    • TELDEC 2564 60866-2.
  • 9.31am

    • Alexander Nikolayevich Tcherepnin - Grand Waltz (Pavillon d'Armide, Op.29)

      Performers: Leningrad Philharmonic Orchestra, Viktor Fedotov (conductor)

  • 9.39am: Artist of the Week - Soile Isokoski

    • Toivo Kuula

      Sinikan lualu, Op.16 No.1; Marjatan laulu, Op.8 No.2

      Performers: Soile Isokoski (soprano), Marita Viitasalo (piano)

      • FINLANDIA 3984 23401-2.
  • 9.47am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Concerto for Flute and Harp in C major, K.299

      Performers: James Galway (flute), Marisa Robles (harp), London Symphony Orchestra, Michael Tilson Thomas (conductor)

      • RCA 09026 61789-2.
  • Claude Debussy

    Preludes, Book 1 Nos 5-8

    Performers: Jean-Yves Thibaudet (piano)

    • DECCA 452 022-2.
  • 10.30am: Dame Stephanie Shirley's Choice

    • Trad. arr Britten

      The Foggy, Foggy Dew

      Performers: Peter Pears (tenor), Benjamin Britten (piano)

      • LONDON 430 063-2.
  • 10.39am: Sarah's Personal Shopper piece for Dame Stephanie Shirley

    • Amy Beach

      Romance, Op.23

      Performers: Paul Barritt (violin), James Lisney (piano)

      • BIS CD 1245.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Voyevoda, Op.78

    Performers: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, Vasily Petrenko (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.57068.
  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      The Bells

      Performers: Natali Troitskaya (soprano), Ryszard Karczykowski (tenor), Tom Krause (baritone), Concertgebouw Orchestra and Chorus, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

      • DECCA 414 455-2.
  • Gaetano Donizetti

    Andante sostenuto in F major

    Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), Ursula Holliger (harp)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94054.
  • 11.41am

    • Louis Couperin

      Quatrieme Concert Royal

      Performers: Les Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (director)

      • Alia Vox AVS9840.

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  • Fri 9 Mar 2012 09:00

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