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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: English lute duets played by Jakob Lindberg and Paul O'Dette; Artist of the Week: Steven Osborne; Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: English Lute Duets performed by Jakob Lindberg and Paul O'Dette (lutes) BIS 267

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Steven Osborne.

10.30am
As the Jewish new year approaches, Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics this week is Baroness Julia Neuberger, one of Britain's most prominent liberal rabbis, social reformer and member of the House of Lords since June 2004. A former Liberal Democrat, she became a crossbench peer in September 2011 on becoming Senior Rabbi to the West London Synagogue (a Movement for Reform Judaism synagogue).
The daughter of a German Jewish immigrant family, she was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, and obtained her Rabbinic Diploma at Leo Baeck College, London, where she taught for 20 years from 1977 to 1997. She was Britain's second female rabbi, and the first to have her own synagogue (the South London Liberal Synagogue). Since January 2007 she has been president of the Liberal Judaism movement.
Baroness Neuberger has always undertaken many voluntary and philanthropic roles. She was Chair of Camden and Islington Community Health Services NHS Trust from 1992 to 1997 and Chief Executive of The King's Fund 1997-2004. Several of her books deal with the ethics of healthcare and dying. The Moral State We're In, a study of morality and public policy in modern Britain, was published in 2005.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3 in A minor, Op 56 (The Scottish) [original version]
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly
DECCA 132 800-2.

3 hours

Last on

Wed 12 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg concerto no. 1 (BWV.1046) in F major [complete]

    • Bach: Brandenburg Concertos.
    • Decca.
  • Kapustin

    Prelude in the Jazz Style, Op. 53 No. 15

    Performers: Steven Osborne (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67159.
  • Waldteufel

    Les patineurs, Op. 193

    Performers: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 338-2.
  • 9.10 [00'10"]: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Anon.

      Anon. - A Merry Moode

      Performers: Jakob Lindberg and Paul O鈥橠ette (lutes)

  • Alfonso Ferrabosco

    The Spanish Pavan

    Performers: Jakob Lindberg and Paul O鈥橠ette (lutes)

    • BIS 267.
  • 9.16 [00'16"]:

    • Gustav Holst

      St Paul's suite Op.29`2

      Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.

      Performers: Bournemouth Sinfonietta, Richard Studt (director)

      • NAXOS 8.550823.
  • 9.32 [00'32"]: Artist of the Week - Steven Osborne

    • Kapustin

      Preludes in the Jazz Style, Op. 53, Nos. 11, 12, 10, 9

      Performers: Steven Osborne (piano)

      • HYPERION CDA 67159.
  • 9.42 [00'42"]:

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Introduction and Rondo capriccioso

      Performers: Nathan Milstein (violin), Concert Arts Orchestra, Walter Susskind (conductor)

      • EMI CDM 7691122.
  • 9.51 [00'51"]:

    • Today's Brainteaser Answer

      The Year in Question

      Performers: Details of the music related to today鈥檚 brainteaser will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Suite from the opera The Snow Maiden

    Performers: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, Ernest Ansermet (conductor)

    • DECCA 443 464-2.
  • William Byrd

    Gloria from the Mass for 4 voices

    Performers: Choir of New College, Oxford

    • PORTRAIT PCL 2102.
  • 10.10 [01'10"]: Artist of the Week - Steven Osborne

    • Franz Schubert

      Fantasie in F minor, D.940

      Performers: Paul Lewis and Steven Osborne (piano duet)

      • HYPERION CDA 67665.
  • 10.30 [01'30"]: BARONESS JULIA NEUBERGER'S CHOICES

    • Henry Purcell

      "Thy hand Belinda鈥hen I am laid in earth" (Dido and Aeneas)

      Performer: Anna Prohaska. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.

      Performers: Dido: Jessye Norman (soprano), English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 416 299-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 41 in C, K.551 'Jupiter': Finale

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • DG 415 841-2.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in E minor, Op 25 No 5

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY SK 61885.
  • 11am [02'00"]: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Symphony No. 3 in A minor, Op. 56 'Scottish' [original version]

      Performers: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • DECCA 478 1525.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 1 in F, BWV 1046

    Performers: Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 139 230-2.

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  • Wed 12 Sep 2012 09:00

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