Friday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Can-Can and Other Dances from the Opera; Artist of the Week; The Story of Music in 50 Pieces: Mozart: Serenade in B flat (Gran Partita).
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Can-Can and other Dances from the Opera (various performers) NAXOS 8.550924
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin.
10.30am
Sarah Walker's guest this week is Baroness Floella Benjamin, television presenter, actress and politician. She is known as presenter of children's television programmes such as Play School, Play Away and Fast Forward. On stage she has appeared in shows including Hair, Jesus Christ Superstar and The Husband in Law. She has won a Special Lifetime Achievement award from BAFTA, and in 2001 was awarded an OBE for services to broadcasting. In 2010 she was introduced to the House of Lords as a Life Peer, nominated by the Liberal Democrats.
11am
The Story of Music in 50 Pieces
No. 19: Mozart: Serenade in B flat, K361 (Gran Partita).
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Sullivan
HMS Pinafore: 'We shall sail the ocean blue'
Performers: The D鈥橭yly Carte Opera Company, The New Symphony Orchestra of London, Isidore Godfrey (conductor)
- DECCA 414 283.
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Igor Stravinsky
Scherzo Fantastique, Op. 3
Performers: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)
- DECCA 448 812 2.
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Johann Pachelbel
Canon and Gigue
Performers: Musica Antiqua K枚ln, Reinhard Goebel (director)
- ARCHIV 447 285 2.
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9.20: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Charles Gounod
Ballet Music (Faust) 鈥� Allegretto; Allegretto; Moderato con moto; Allegretto
Performers: CSR Symphony Orchestra, Ondrej Lenard (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.550924.
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Today's Brainteaser
Only Connect
Performers: Answer: Spinning - Saint-Saens Le Rouet d'Omphale op 31; Mendelssohn 'Spinning Song' op 67 no 4; Sibelius Melisande at the Spinning Wheel (Pelleas and Melisande)
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Sammartini
Trio in F
Performers: Camerata K枚ln
- DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI 05472773232.
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9.37: Artist of the Week - Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin
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Nikolai Karlovich Medtner
Selection of Forgotten Melodies, Op. 38 Nos. 3, 4, 5 & 8
Performers: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67578.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Le Rouet d'Omphale op 31
Performers: Orchestre National de L'ORTF, Jean Martinon (conductor)
- ERATO ECD 55001.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Piano Concerto No. 2
Performers: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano), 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Litton (conductor)
- HYPERION CDA67425.
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10.30: Baroness Floella Benjamin's Choices
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Concerto de Aranjuez
Performers: Angel Romero (guitar), London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)
- EMI CDC-7 47693 2.
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Ravel
Mother Goose Suite: Laideronnette, Empress of the Pagodas
Performers: Katia & Marielle Labeque (piano duet)
- PHILIPS 420 159-2.
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Trad arr. Shaw
Sometimes I feel like a moanin' dove
Performers: Robert Shaw Festival Singers, Robert Shaw (conductor)
- TELARC CD 80531.
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11am: The Story of Music
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Serenade No. 10 in B flat, K.361 "Gran Partita"
Performers: Linos Ensemble
- CAPRICCIO 10472.
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Franz Liszt
Etude d'apres Paganini S141 no 5
Performers: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67370.
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