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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: the Kuijken brothers. Handel: Partenope. Bach: Orchestral Suite No 2; poet Jo Shapcott; Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Arne Overtures - Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage: CHANDOS CHAN 0722

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Kuijken brothers. Hear them in music by Handel (Partenope) and Bach (Orchestral Suite No. 2).

10.30am
This week one of the key features from Olympiads of the ancient world is re-created in London's Southbank Centre. Poetry Parnassus, the largest poetry festival ever staged in the UK, will bring together poets and spoken-word artists from all over the world, with all 204 competing Olympic nations represented. Sarah Walker's guest this week is Britain's representative, Jo Shapcott.

11am
Rachmaninov: Symphony No 2 in E minor.
The recommended recording as chosen in Building a Library from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 25 Jun 2012 09:00
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Music Played

  • 9am: Artists of the Week - The Kuijken Family

    • George Frideric Handel

      Soccorso (Partenope from Act II)

      Performers: La Petite Bande, Sigiswald Kuijken (director)

      • EMI CDC 7479138.

  • Edward Elgar

    Alassio (In the South), Op. 50

    Performers: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Davis (conductor)

    • WARNER APEX 0927 49586-2.

  • 9.23: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture No. 5 in D major

      Performers: Collegium Musicum 90, Simon Standage (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 0722.

  • 9.30am

    • Richard Wagner

      Lohengrin: Act II sc.4 - Elsa's processing to the church

      Performers: Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • TELDEC 3984 21484-2.

  • 9.37: Artists of the Week - The Kuijken Family

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Orchestral Suite No. 2, BWV 1067

      Performers: La Petite Bande with Barthold Kuijken (flute), Sigiswald Kuijken (conductor)

      • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI GD77008.

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin: Prelude to Act III

    Performers: Staatskapelle Berlin, Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

    • TELDEC 3984 21484-2.

  • 10.04am

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      String Quartet in C minor, Op. 18 No. 4

      Performers: Tak谩cs Quartet

      • DECCA 470 848-2.

  • 10.28am

    • Marc鈥怉ntoine Charpentier

      Gigue Anglaise (Concert pour quartre parties de violes, H.545)

      Performers: Les Arts Florrissants, William Christie

      • ERATO 3984 25485-2.

  • 10.30: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Art of Fugue BWV 1080: Contrapunctus 6 'in the French style'; Contrapunctus 7 'with Augme

      Performers: Fretwork

      • HARMONIA MUNDI 2907296.

  • 10.43: Jo Shapcott's Choice

    • Gerald Finzi

      The Rapture, Wonder, The Salutation (from Dies Natalis)

      Performers: Wilfred Brown (tenor), English Chamber Orchestra, Christopher Finzi (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 763372-2.

  • 10.58am

    • Charles Gounod

      Faust: Dance of the young girls from Nubia

      Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan

      • DG 459 445-2.

  • 11am

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Symphony No. 2

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday鈥檚 CD Review

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  • Mon 25 Jun 2012 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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