Tuesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Rare Piano Encores, performed by Leslie Howard; 20 Great British Works: Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad.
This week Sarah's guest is Maureen Lipman, the celebrated actress of stage and screen, who is also well-known for her humorous books and newspaper and magazine columns. Her many stage triumphs have ranged from singing legend, Florence Foster Jenkins, and the celebrated actress/monologist Joyce Grenfell (Re-Joyce) to Aunt Ella in the National Theatre's production of Oklahoma! and Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music. Maureen was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company at the Old Vic. On screen, Maureen starred in the situation comedy Agony and has appeared in well-loved TV series such as Coronation Street, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, Jonathan Creek, Doctor Who, The Sweeney and Smiley's People. She plays Irene Spencer in Ladies of Letters. On film her roles have included Tricia in Educating Rita, and the mother of The Pianist in Roman Polanski's award-winning film of the same name. Her columns have appeared in The Guardian and Good Housekeeping.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Rare Piano Encores, performed by Leslie Howard.
9.30-10.30am
A daily brainteaser, and performances by our Artist of the Week, Sir Colin Davis
10.30am
This week Sarah's guest is Maureen Lipman, the celebrated actress of stage and screen, who is also well known for her humorous books and newspaper and magazine columns.
Her many stage triumphs have ranged from singing legend, Florence Foster Jenkins, and the celebrated actress/monologist Joyce Grenfell (Re-Joyce) to Aunt Ella in the National Theatre's production of Oklahoma! and Madame Armfeldt in A Little Night Music. Maureen was a member of Laurence Olivier's Royal National Theatre Company at the Old Vic. On screen, Maureen starred in the situation comedy Agony and has appeared in well-loved TV series such as Coronation Street, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, Jonathan Creek, Doctor Who, The Sweeney and Smiley's People. She plays Irene Spencer in Ladies of Letters. On film her roles have included Tricia in Educating Rita, and the mother of The Pianist in Roman Polanski's award-winning film of the same name. Her columns have appeared in The Guardian and Good Housekeeping.
11am
20 Great British Works
Butterworth: A Shropshire Lad
Roderick Williams (baritone)
Iain Burnside (piano)
11.20am
Harty: An Irish Symphony
Ulster Orchestra
Bryden Thomson (conductor).
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Music Played
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Trad.
Iag Bari (Uhrovska collection of 1730)
Performers: Ensemble Caprice, Matthais Maut茅 (director)
- ANALEKTA AN 2 9912.
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9.03am
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Tsar's Bride: Overture
Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
- NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037.
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9.09am
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Oboe Quartet, K.370
Performers: Heinz Holliger (oboe), Members of the Orlando Quartet
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 94054/7.
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9.27: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Franz Liszt
Valse oubli茅e No. 4, S215/4
Performers: Leslie Howard (piano)
- HYPERION HELIOS CDH55109.
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9.33am
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Charlie Hunter of Oban
The Hills of Lorne
Performers: Jordi Savall (treble viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish harp & psaltery), Frank McGuire (bodhran)
- ALIA VOX AVSA9878.
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9.34am
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Nathaniel Gow
Miss Sally Hunter of Thurston Jig
Performers: Jordi Savall (treble viol), Andrew Lawrence-King (Irish harp & psaltery), Frank McGuire (bodhran)
- ALIA VOX AVSA9878.
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9.40am
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata in F major, Op. 10 No. 2
Performers: Paul Lewis (piano)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMC901909.11.
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9.55am
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Rose Adagio (Sleeping Beauty)
Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)
- DG 449 726-2.
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10.02am: Artist of the Week - Colin Davis
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Vesperae solennes de confessore, K.339
Performers: Elizabeth Bainbridge (soprano), Ryland Davis (tenor), Gwynne Howell (bass), John Constable (organ), London Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Colin Davis (conductor)
- PHILIPS 478 4614.
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10.30: Maureen Lipman's Choice
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Max Bruch
Adagio (Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26)
Performers: Kyung Wha Chung (violin), Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
- DECCA 460 976-2.
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10.50: Maureen Lipman's Choice
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Nevin
Narcissus
Performers: Joyce Grenfell & Norman Wisdom, Uncredited Orchestra
- SEE FOR MILES SEECD 477.
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10.58am
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Ludwig van Beethoven
March in B flat, WoO29
Performers: Melos Ensemble
- EMI 918517-2.
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11am: 20 Works celebrating British Music
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Butterworth
A Shropshire Lad
Performers: Roderick Williams (baritone), Iain Burnside (piano)
- NAXOS 8.572426.
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11.13am
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Th茅odore Dubois
Concerto No. 2 for piano and orchestra聽
Performers: Cedric Tiberghien (piano), 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Andrew Manze (conductor)
- HYPERION CDA67931.
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11.42am
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.58 in F
Performers: The English Concert, Trevor Pinnock (director)
- ARCHIV 463 731-2.
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