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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Rossini Overtures; Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall; Sarah's Essential Choice: Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks.

The fourth and final week of Radio 3's Baroque Spring concludes with Sarah Walker, and her guest, the poet Craig Raine.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Rossini Overtures by the Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields conducted by Sir Neville Marriner.

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Baroque Spring Artist of the Week, Jordi Savall, one of the true pioneers of early music performance. Plus another Baroque Bite from Simon Heighes

10.30am
This week Sarah Walker is joined by British poet Craig Raine who, together with Christopher Reid, is the best-known exponent of the movement known as Martian poetry. A former Fellow of New College, Oxford, he is now Emeritus Professor, and is also founder and editor of the literary magazine Aret茅. His works include a number of poetry collections, including The Onion, Memory (1978), A Martian Sends a Postcard 91热爆 (1979), and Clay. Whereabouts Unknown (1996). His reviews and essays are collected in two anthologies: Haydn and the Valve Trumpet (1990) and In Defence of T. S. Eliot (2000). Most recently, he has collaborated with composer Michael Berkelely, writing the libretto for an operatic adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel, Atonement.

11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

Handel: Music for the Royal Fireworks
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall (conductor)
ALIA VOX AVSA9860

11.30
Mozart: Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.364
Julia Fischer (violin)
Gordon Nikolic (viola)
Netherlands Chamber Orchestra
Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)
PENTATONE PTC5186098.

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Music Played

  • Domenico Zipoli

    Battalia Imperiale

    Performers: Ensemble Caprice

    • ANALEKTA AN29957.

  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Gioachino Rossini

      Otello: Overture

      Performers: Academy of Saint Martin-in-the-Fields, Neville Marriner (conductor)

      • PHILIPS 4880022.

  • Victoria

    Ave maris stella a 4

    Performers: The Sixteen, Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • CORO COR16035.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Peer Gynt Suite No. 1, Op. 46

    Performers: English Chamber Orchestra, Raymond Leppard (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 438380.

  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Puzzle: A Famous Saying

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

  • 9.32: Artist of the Week - Jordi Savall

    • Henry Purcell

      Fantasia for 4 Viols in F major, Z 737

      Performers: Sophie Watillon (alto viola da gamba), Eunice Brandao (tenor viola da gamba), Wieland Kuijken (bass viola da gamba), Jordi Savall (soprano viola da gamba)

      • ALIA VOX 9859.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Leonore Overture No. 2, Op. 72a

    Performers: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yoel Levi (conductor)

    • TELARC 80358.

  • Edward Elgar

    Salut d'amour Op.12

    Performers: Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Philip Moll (piano)

    • DECCA 4332202.

  • Bax

    Overture to Adventure

    Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vernon Handley (conductor)

    • LYRITA 296.

  • 10.02: Artist of the Week - Jordi Savall

    • Luigi Boccherini

      Symphony in D minor, Op. 37 No. 3/G 517

      Performers: Manfred Kraemer (violin), Pablo Valetti (violin), Bruno Cocset (cello), Claude Wassmer (bassoon), Charles Zebley (flute), Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

      • ALIA VOX 9845.

  • 10.30: Craig Raine's Choices

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      The Magic Flute: "Dies Bildnis Ist Bezaubernd Schon"

      Performers: Tamino: Fritz Wunderlich (tenor), Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, Carl Schuricht (conductor)

      • HANSSLER CLASSICS 093.093.

  • Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker: Chinese Dance

    Performers: London Symphony Orchestra, Andre Previn (conductor)

    • EMI 9676942.

  • Adams

    Nixon in China: Landing of the Spirit of '76; "Your flight was smooth, I hope?"

    Performers: Richard Nixon: Robert Orth, Chou En-lai: Chen-Ye Yuan, Colorado Symphony Orchestra, Marin Alsop (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.669022-24.

  • Claude Debussy

    Arabesque No.1

    Performers: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet (piano)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10467.

  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • George Frideric Handel

      Music for the Royal Fireworks

      Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)

      • ALIA VOX AVSA9860.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Margaret's Cradle Song

    Performers: Norwegian Soloists Choir, Grete Pederson (conductor)

    • BIS SACD 1661.

  • 11.29am

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Sinfonia Concertante in E flat, K.364

      Performers: Julia Fischer (violin), Gordon Nikolic (viola), Netherlands Chamber Orchestra, Yakov Kreizberg (conductor)

      • PENTATONE PTC5186098.

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  • Wed 27 Mar 2013 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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