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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker is joined by peace and environment activist Satish Kumar. Plus a daily brainteaser, and the next pianist in Peter Donohoe's survey of 50 Great Pianists.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: London Mozart Players conducted by Matthias Bamert perform symphonies by Michael Haydn: CHANDOS CHAN 9352

9.30am
A daily brainteaser, and Sarah's recommended performance by the next pianist in Peter Donohoe's survey of 50 Great Pianists. This week's focus is British piano music and pianism.

10.30am
The International Day of Peace is celebrated at the end of this week, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is Satish Kumar, the current editor of Resurgence magazine, and long-term peace and environment activist. Born in India in 1936, he joined the wandering Jain sect at the age of only nine, but left them at 18 to devote himself to turning Gandhi's vision of a renewed India and a peaceful world into reality. He settled in the UK in 1973, and has been the guiding spirit behind a number of internationally-respected ecological and educational ventures including the Schumacher College International Centre for ecological studies in South Devon. A passionate advocate of nuclear disarmament, his most notable achievement was the 8000-mile 'pilgrimage for peace' which he and a friend undertook in 1962, walking between the four capitals of the nuclear world - Moscow, Paris, London and the USA - carrying no money, and depending on the kindness and hospitality of strangers. In his 50th year he undertook another similar pilgrimage, walking 2000 miles around the holy places of Britain to celebrate his love of life and nature. He has received honorary doctorates from the universities of Plymouth and Lancaster, and international awards for his peace work. In recognition of his commitment to animal welfare and compassionate living, he was recently elected vice-president of the RSPCA.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for violin, viola and orchestra, K.364
Giuliano Carmignola (violin)
Danusha Waskiewicz (viola)
Orchestra Mozart
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
ARCHIV 477 7371.

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Wed 19 Sep 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in D, Op. 32 No. 1

    Performers: Steven Osborne (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67700.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'From Harmony' from A Song for St Cecilia's Day

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Choeur des Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • NA脧VE V 5307.
  • Gustav Holst

    'Jupiter' from The Planets

    Performers: Anthony Goldstone and Caroline Clemmow (pianos)

    • DIVINE ART DDV24154.
  • 9.12: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Michael Haydn

      Symphony in G, P16

      Performers: London Mozart Players, Matthias Bamert (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN9352.
  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      The Year in Question

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse-scherzo for violin and orchestra in C, Op. 34

    Performers: James Ehnes (violin), Sydney Symphony, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • ONYX 4076.
  • Ireland

    Decorations

    Performers: Mark Bebbington (piano)

    • SOMM SOMM074.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Overture to La Gazza Ladra

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

    • SONY 88697565602.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita no.5 in G, BWV 829

    Performers: Murray Perahia (piano)

    • SONY 88697565602.
  • 10.30: Satish Kumar's Choices

    • Buddhadev Das Gupta

      Se Kon Boner Horin

      Performers: Rohini Raychaudhuri (vocals), Soumik Datta (Sarod), Gautam Shome (keyboards), Debashish Sarkar, Siddhartha Bhattacharya (tabla)

      • SAREGAMA CDNF 143302.
  • Philip Glass

    Satyagraha, Act 2 ('Tagore'), scene 2: 'Indian Opinion'

    Performers: Robert McFarland (Mr Kallenbach), Claudia Cummings (Miss Schlesen), Rhonda Liss (Kasturbai), Sheryl Woods (Mrs Naidoo), Scott Reeve (Parsi Rustomji), New York City Opera, Orchestra and Chorus, Christopher Keene (conductor)

    • SONY 88697527232.
  • Franz Liszt

    Magyar Dalok no.5 in D flat

    Performers: Leslie Howard (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA66851/2.
  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Sinfonia Concertante in E flat for violin, viola and orchestra, K.364

      Performers: Giuliano Carmignola (violin), Danusha Waskiewicz (viola), Orchestra Mozart, Claudio Abbado (conductor)

      • ARCHIV 477 7371.
  • Handel (arr. Mozart)

    Er war verschahet und verachtet', from the Messiah

    Performers: Bernarda Fink (contralto), Choeur de Chambre de Namur, La Grande Ecurie du Roy, Jean-Claude Malgoire (conductor)

    • NA脧VE V 5307.
  • Percy Grainger

    The Warriors

    Performers: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Malcolm Wilson, Roderick Elms, Wayne Marshall (pianos), Simon Rattle (conductor)

    • EMI 6 97588 2.

Broadcast

  • Wed 19 Sep 2012 09:00

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