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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: instrumentalist, composer and conductor Jordi Savall; Sarah's Essential Choice: Gesualdo: A survey of his music.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Poulenc chamber music from Pascal Roge and friends: DECCA 4757097

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the instrumentalist, composer and conductor Jordi Savall.

10.30am
In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest is the award-winning landscape architect Tom Stuart-Smith. Tom Stuart-Smith was a child chorister and plays the violin, so music has always been a passion for him. His favourite composers range from Bach to Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Verdi, Wagner, Messiaen and Schoenberg.

11am
Gesualdo: A survey of his music.
Excerpts from recordings discussed in Building a Library from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 21 May 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • Phyllis Tate

    London Fields - Springtime at Kew

    Performers: London Philharmonic Orchestra, Barry Wordsworth (conductor)

    • LYRITA SRCD 2338.

  • Lili Boulanger

    D'un Matin de Printemps

    Performers: 91热爆 Philharmonic Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 9745.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Lieder ohne Worte Op. 62 No. 6 'Spring Song'

    Performers: Daniel Adni (piano)

    • EMI 569392.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in A for 4 violins TWV54 / A1

    Performers: Concerto Koln, Reinhard Geobel (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 471 4922.

  • 9.20: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Francis Poulenc

      Sonata for flute and piano

      Performers: Patrick Gallois (flute), Pascal Roge (piano)

      • DECCA 4757097.

  • Jean Fran莽aix

    Concertino for piano and orchestra

    Performers: Phillipe Cassard (piano), Ulster Orchestra, Thierry Fischer (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA 67384.

  • 9.40: Artist of the Week - Jordi Savall

    • Henry Purcell

      The Prophetess Suite

      Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

      • ALIA VOX AVSA 9866.

  • William Alwyn

    Harvest 91热爆

    Performers: Ashley Wass (piano)

    • NAXOS 8.570359.

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    2nd Suite Le Divertissement Royal

    Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

    • ALIA VOX AV9807.

  • 10.30: Tom Stuart-Smith's Choices

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24

      Performers: Alina Ibragimova (violin), Cedric Tiberghien (piano)

      • WIGMORE HALL LIVE 0041.

  • Franz Schubert

    Der Jungling an der Quelle, D.300

    Performers: Anne-Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

    • DG 453 4812.

  • 11am:

    • Carlo Gesualdo

      Gioite voi col canto; Merce grido piangendo

      Performers: La Venexiana

      • GLOSSA GCD 920935.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Feria V - In Coena Domini (Responses 4-6)

    Performers: The Hilliard Ensemble

    • ECM 1422/23.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Piano Concerto No.5 Op.103 'Egyptian'

    Performers: Pascal Roge (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

    • DECCA 4754652.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    March for Shakespeare Festival

    Performers: Prague Radio Symphony Orchestra, Vladimir Valek (conductor)

    • SUPRAPHON SU 39162.

Broadcast

  • Mon 21 May 2012 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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