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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin; Artist of the Week: recorder player Frans Bruggen; Bruckner: Symphony No 4.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Virtuoso and Romantic Encores for Violin, RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 63960

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artist of the Week, Frans Br眉ggen.

10.30am
This Saturday (10th November) is World Science Day for Peace and Development, and Sarah Walker's guest on Essential Classics is the distinguished British physicist Dame Athene Margaret Donald, Professor of Experimental Physics in the University of Cambridge's Department of Physics.

Dame Athene is director of WiSETI, Cambridge University's Women in Science, Engineering and Technology Initiative, and the University's Gender Equality Champion. She is also chairwoman of the Athena Forum, which aims to advance the career progression and representation of women in the sciences in UK higher education, and is a member of the Advisory Council of the Campaign for Science and Engineering. In 2011 she was made a Trustee of the National Museum of Science in Industry.

In 2009 Dame Athene was one of the five recipients of the L'Oreal/UNESCO Women in Science award. The following year she was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the Queen's Birthday Honours, and in 2011 she won the UKRC's Women of Outstanding Achievement's Lifetime Achievement Award.

11am
Bruckner: Symphony No.4 "Romantic"
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 5 Nov 2012 09:00

Music Played

  • Offenbach arr. Manuel Rosenthal

    Gait茅 parisienne: Overture

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 429 163-2.
  • Offenbach arr. Manuel Rosenthal

    Gait茅 parisienne: Barcarolle

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert Von Karajan (conductor)

    • DG 429 163-2.
  • 9.07: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Henryk Wieniawski

      Polonaise de concert in D, Op. 4

      Performers: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Daniel Gortler (piano)

      • RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 82876 50470-2.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vocalise Op. 34: No. 14

    Performers: Nikolaj Znaider (violin), Daniel Gortler (piano)

    • RCA VICTOR RED SEAL 82876 50470-2.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    William Tell Overture

    Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)

    • MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434332-2.
  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Mystery Piece

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

  • 9.35: Artist of the Week - Frans Br眉ggen

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Concerto in E minor for reorder, flute and strings

      Performers: Frans Br眉ggen (recorder), Frans Vester (flute), The Chamber Orchestra of Amsterdam, Andr茅 Rieu (conductor)

      • TELDEC 9031-77620-2.
  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62

    Performers: Paul Tortelier (cello), Northern Sinfonia Orchestra, Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor)

    • EMI CDM 769504-2.
  • 10.10: Artist of the Week - Frans Br眉ggen

    • Joseph Haydn

      Symphony No. 58 in F

      Performers: Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment, Frans Br眉ggen (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 462 117-2.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in C minor, Wq 65/31

    Performers: Danny Driver (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67908.
  • 10.30: Dame Athene Donald's Choices

    • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

      Stabat mater (opening movement)

      Performers: Evelyn Lear (soprano), Christa Ludwig (mezzo soprano), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Lorin Maazel (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 462 054-2.
  • Symphony No. 5 (2nd movement, Allegretto)

    Czech Philharmonic Orchestra, Karel Ancerl (conductor)

    Performers: Supraphon 1106762 Composer: Bruckner Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Gunter Wand (conductor)

    • Shostakovich.
  • Robert Schumann

    Eintritt (No 1 from Waldscene, Op 82)

    Performers: Andras Schiff (piano)

    • ECM 476 3909.

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  • Mon 5 Nov 2012 09:00

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