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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Carmen-Fantasie, Anne-Sophie Mutter; Artist of the Week: John Ogdon; CD Review's Building a Library: Wagner: Tannhauser.

with Sarah Walker, and her guest, plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood. Also this week as part of Wagner 200 on Radio 3, Sarah will be featuring a famous Wagner aria every day just before 10.30. We'll be hearing from great Wagnerians including Margaret Price, Rene Kollo, Jonas Kaufmann, Ben Heppner and Anja Silja.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Carmen-Fantasie, Anne-Sophie Mutter, DG 437 5442

9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, performances by our Artist of the Week, John Ogdon, and a great Wagner aria as part of Wagner 200.

10.30am
This is the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, and Sarah Walker's guest is plant pathologist Pippa Greenwood. Pippa is well known through her work on television and radio, and as a journalist. She is a regular presenter on the 91热爆's Gardeners' World and a panel member of 91热爆 Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time. She also contributes regularly to 91热爆 Gardeners' World magazine, Amateur Gardening, and the Mirror, and writes a regular blog for the 91热爆 Gardeners' World website. Pippa is the author of several gardening books, including The New Gardener (which has sold over a million copies), 1001 Ways to be a Better Gardener, and Flower Gardener, which won a Garden Writers' Guild award in 1998. Her most recent book, The Gardener's Calendar, was published last year.

11am:
Wagner: Tannhauser
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Mon 20 May 2013 09:00
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Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Zuricher Vielleibchen-Walzer, WWV 88

    Performers: Pier Paolo Vincenzi (piano)

    • BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94450.

  • Arcangelo Corelli

    Concerto grosso in F, Op. 6 No. 2

    Performers: English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (conductor)

    • ARCHIV 4236262.

  • Halffter

    Habanera

    Performers: Mats Lidstrom (cello), Bengt Forsberg (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67184.

  • 9.15: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Pablo de Sarasate

      Carmen Fantasy

      Performers: Anne-Sophie Mutter (violin), Vienna Philharmonic, James Levine (conductor)

      • DG 437 544-2.

  • 9.30:

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Dancing?

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

  • 9.35: Artist of the Week - John Ogdon

    • Liszt (arr Busoni)

      Etudes d'ex茅cution transcendante d'apr猫s Paganini, S140: 'La campanella'

      Performers: John Ogdon (piano)

      • EMI 05149.

  • Cipriano de Rore

    Descendi in ortum meum

    Performers: The Tallis Scholars

    • GIMELL CDGIM 201.

  • Aaron Copland

    Quiet City

    Performers: Raymond Mase (trumpet), Stephen Taylor (cor anglais), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • DG 4273352.

  • 9.55am: Artist of the Week - John Ogdon

    • Dmitry Shostakovich

      Piano Concerto No. 2 in F, Op. 102

      Performers: John Ogdon (piano), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Lawrence Foster (conductor)

      • EMI 574991.

  • 笔茅谤辞迟颈苍

    Isaias cecinit

    Performers: Hilliard Ensemble

    • ECM 8377512.

  • 10.20: Wagner 200

    • Richard Wagner

      Die Meistersinger: Act III: "Morgenlich Leuchtend"

      Performers: Walther: Ben Heppner (tenor), Hans Sachs: Bernd Weikl (baritone), Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra, Wolfgang Sawallisch (conductor)

      • EMI 7390182.

  • 10.30: Pippa Greenwood's Choices

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Flute Sonata in C, BWV1033

      Performers: James Galway (flute), Philip Moll (harpsichord), Sarah Cunningham (bass viola da gamba)

      • RCA 62555.

  • Erik Satie

    Gnossiennes Nos. 1 and 4

    Performers: Anne Queffelec (piano)

    • VIRGIN VC7907542.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite No.1 for small orchestra

    Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra

    • BRILLIANT 9089.

  • 11am:

    • Richard Wagner

      Tannhauser: Act III (conclusion)

      Performers: The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Pieces de clavecin en la majeur (Sarabande and La Triomphante)

    Performers: Skip Sempe (harpsichord)

    • PARADIZO PA0005.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Symphony No.1

    Performers: 91热爆 Philharmonic, Junajo Mena (conductor)

    • CHANDOS CHAN 10748.

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  • Mon 20 May 2013 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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