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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Grieg Choral Music; Artists of the Week: Trevor Pinnock, The English Concert; Essential Choice: Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, comedian and impressionist Alistair McGowan.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg Choral Music - The Norwegian Soloists' Choir, BIS-SACD-1661

9.30-10.30am
A Christmas feature where listeners to Essential Classics set the daily brainteaser, and performances by the Artists of the Week, Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this Christmas week is the comedian and impressionist Alistair McGowan. Alistair's most recent show is You Cannot Be Serious! on ITV, and he is perhaps best known for the 91热爆1 top-rating comedy programme The Big Impression, which won numerous awards, including a BAFTA. He provided the voices for many of the characters in the political puppet comedy Spitting Image, and has been a regular on Radio 4 comedy shows including Weekending and The Harpoon, as well as The Game's Up on Radio Five Live.

In 2010, his first play, Timing, received a nomination for Best New Comedy in the whatsonstage.com awards. As an actor Alistair has played the title role in the quirky detective show Mayo (co-writing several later episodes), Mr Kenge in Bleak House and Spock in Tim Firth's award-winning Preston Front. He has hosted Have I Got News For You?, was one of the grumpy old men in Grumpy Guides, and has appeared on Who Do You Think You Are? He is co-author of A Matter of Life and Death: How To Wean A Man Off Football.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Kodaly: Hary Janos Suite
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 444 322-2.

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Music Played

  • Georges Bizet

    Galop from Jeux d'enfants

    Performers: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Bernard Haitink (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 416 437 2.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Trio in A Hob. XV No. 35

    Performers: Beaux Arts Trio

    • PHILIPS 432 064 2.

  • 9.16: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Edvard Grieg

      Jesus Kristus er opfaren (Jesus Christ Our Lord is Risen), 4 Psalms Op. 74 No. 3

      Performers: Soloist: B氓rd Bratlie, The Norwegian Soloists鈥� Choir, Grete Pedersen (conductor)

      • BIS SACD 1661.

  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Le Banjo 鈥� fantaisie grotesque Op. 15

    Performers: Cecile Licad (piano)

    • NAXOS 8559145.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who am I?

      Performers: The answer is 'Wenceslas'

  • 9.31: Artists of the Week - Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert

    • Johann Friedrich Fasch

      Concerto in C minor for bassoon, 2 oboes and strings L:c2

      Performers: Alberto Grazzi (bassoon), Paul Goodwin & Lorraine Wood (oboes), The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director)

      • ARCHIV 449 210 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Overture: Marriage of Figaro

    Performers: Dresden Staatskapelle, Colin Davis (conductor)

    • RCA 56698.

  • Edward Elgar

    Sospiri, Op. 70

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Richard Hickox (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 8789.

  • Anon.

    Tempus Adest Florium (Spring Carol)

    Performers: Female voices of Oxford Camerata, Jeremy Summerley (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8553578.

  • Franz Schubert

    Moment musical in A flat, D.780 No. 6

    Performers: Maria Jo茫o Pires (piano)

    • PHILIPS 456 928 2.

  • Percy Grainger

    Colonial Song

    Performers: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra, Timothy Reynish (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10638.

  • 10.10: Artists of the Week - Trevor Pinnock & The English Concert

    • George Frideric Handel

      Messiah: Part I (conclusion)

      Performers: Arleen Auger (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (alto), The English Concert Choir, The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (harpsichord/director)

      • ARCHIV 423 631 2.

  • 10.30: Alistair McGowan's Choices

    • Erik Satie

      Gnossienne No. 4

      Performers: Roland P枚ntinen (piano)

      • BIS CD 317.

  • Maurice Ravel - Pavane pour une infante d茅funte

    Performers: Pascal Roge (piano)

  • Sullivan

    "When you're lying awake鈥�" (Nightmare song from Iolanthe)

    Performers: Steven Page (baritone), Czech Symphony Orchestra, John Landor (conductor)

    • IMP CLASSICS 1067.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    La Triomphante

    Performers: John Kitchen (harpsichord)

    • DELPHIAN DCD 34112.

  • Eller

    Cantando espressivo (from Five Pieces)

    Performers: Scottish National Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 241-44.

  • Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

      Hary Janos Suite

      Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)

      • DECCA 444 322 2.

  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Septet Op. 74

    Performers: Nash Ensemble

    • CRD 3344.

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  • Christmas Day 2012 09:00
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