Tuesday - Sarah Walker
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures - Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; Proms Artist Recommends; Professor Lavinia Greenlaw.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Haydn Overtures played by the Haydn Sinfonietta Wien; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.
10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. A chance to hear one of the three musical works recommended by an artist appearing in tonight's Prom.
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Lavinia Greenlaw, Professor of Poetry at the University of East Anglia. Her poetry collections include Night Photograph; The Casual Perfect; and Minsk, which was shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot, Forward and Whitbread Poetry Prizes. She has written several novels, Mary George of Allnorthover and An Irresponsible Age, as well as two non-fiction works: The Importance of Music to Girls and Questions of Travel: William Morris in Iceland. In 2011 her sound work, Audio Obscura, won the Ted Hughes Award for New Work in Poetry. Lavinia's work for music includes several opera libretti for composers Richard Ayres and Ian Wilson. She has also written and adapted dramas for radio, and has made documentaries on the Arctic, the Baltic, mountains, Emily Dickinson, Elizabeth Bishop, the darkest place in England, and the solstices and equinoxes.
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Discover the latest three musical recommendations from today's Proms artist.
Music Played
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Howard Ferguson
4 Short Pieces for clarinet and piano, Op. 6: No. 4 Burlesque: Con spirito
Performers: Einar Johannesson (clarinet), Philip Jenkins (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN9079.
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Bedrich Smetana
The Devil's Wall - Prelude and Infernal Dance
Performers: 91热爆 Philharmonic, Gianandrea Noseda (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10518.
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9.10: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
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Joseph Haydn
L'Infedelta Delusa - Sinfonia in C, Hob. 1a:1
Performers: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien, Manfred Huss (conductor)
- BIS CD 1818.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Prelude No. 17 in A flat, Op. 28 No. 17
Performers: Grigory Sokolov (piano)
- NA脧VE NC 40027.
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Claude Debussy
Danse (orch. Ravel)
Performers: Orchestre National de Lyon, Jun Markl (conductor)
- NAXOS 8.509002.
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Today's Brainteaser
Critics' Corner
Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
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Nikolay Gorlov
Suite 鈥� Sonatina
Performers: Ivan Paisov (oboe), Natalia Shcherbakova (piano)
- NAXOS 8.570596.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1041
Performers: Viktoria Mullova (violin), Accademia Bizantina, Ottavio Dantone (director)
- ONYX 4114.
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Alexander Scriabin
Poem of Ecstasy
Performers: USSR State Symphony Orchestra, Yevgeny Svetlanov (conductor)
- 91热爆 LEGENDS 91热爆L41212.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Nocturne no.6 in D flat major Op.63
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.Performers: Jean-Philippe Collard (piano)
- BRILLIANT CLASSICS 93007/1.
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10.30: Lavinia Greenlaw's Choices
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Claudio Monteverdi
Madrigali Guerrieri et Amorosi (Book 8): Lamento della ninfa
Performers: Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Lambert Climent & Francesc Garrigosa (tenors), Daniele Carnovich (bass), La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall (director)
- ASTREE E 8546.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Lieutenant Kij茅: 'The Birth of Kij茅'
Performers: Montreal Symphony Orchestra, Charles Dutoit (conductor)
- DECCA 430 5062.
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Igor Stravinsky
Three Pieces for String Quartet No. 3
Performers: Alban Berg Quartet
- EMI CDC 7543472.
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Isaac Alb茅niz
Tango Op.165 No.2
Performers: Kathryn Stott (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10493.
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