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Monday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy - London Baroque; Proms Artist Recommends: Stephen Hough on the Kyrie from Dvorak's Mass in D.

with Sarah Walker

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: 'The Trio Sonata in 18th-Century Italy' - London Baroque, BIS-2015; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Today, Stephen Hough recommends the Kyrie from Dvorak's Mass in D.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the satirist, actor and comedian, John Bird. He is best known for his contributions in Bremner, Bird and Fortune, an award-winning political comedy show on Channel 4. It included a series of sketches called The Long Johns, featuring Bird and John Fortune, who met as students at King's College, Cambridge. Bird also appeared in That Was the Week That Was (a title which he coined) in the 1960s, as well as The Secret Policeman's Other Ball. Other television appearances include Yes Prime Minister and Jonathan Creek.

2 hours

Last on

Mon 19 Aug 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Suite No. 2 for Small Orchestra: Polka

    Performers: Members of the CBC Symphony Orchestra, Igor Stravinsky (conductor)

    • SONY SMK 46296.
  • 9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni

      Balletto in G, Op. 3 No. 3

      Performers: London Baroque

      • BIS 2015.
  • Alexander Borodin

    In the Steppes of Central Asia

    Performers: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Vladimir Ashkenazy (conductor)

    • DECCA 436 651-2.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet for flute and strings in D, K.285

    Performers: William Bennett (flute), Grumiaux Trio: Arthur Grumiaux (violin), Georges Janzer (viola), Eva Czako (cello)

    • PHILIPS 422 835-2.
  • 9.30am:Today's Brainteaser - Who's Dancing?

    • Modest Mussorgsky

      Ballet of the Unhatched Chicks in their Shells, from Pictures at an Exhibition

      Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)

  • Hector Berlioz

    Overture, Béatrice et Bénédict

    Performers: Boston Symphony Orchestra, Charles Munch (conductor)

    • SONY 88697720602.
  • George Frideric Handel

    'Fra l'ombre e gl'orrori', from Aci, Galatea e Polifemo, HWV 72

    Performers: Christopher Purves (bass), Arcangelo, Jonathan Cohen (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67842.
  • ç

    Concertino in G for piano and orchestra

    Performers: Claude ç (piano), London Symphony Orchestra, Antal Dorati (conductor)

    • MERCURY 478 5092.
  • 10am: Proms Artists Recommend: Stephen Hough

    • Antonín Dvořák

      Kyrie from Mass in D, Op. 86

      Performers: Dorothea Röschmann (soprano), Ingeborg Danz (alto), Christian Elsner (tenor), Johannes Manno (bass), Edgar Krapp (organ), Frankfurter Kantorei, Wolfgang Schäfer (conductor)

      • ARS MUSICI AM 1080-2.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Melancolie; Nocturne no.4 in C minor, 'Bal fantome'; Improvisation no.8 in A minor

    Performers: Stephen Hough (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67890.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    String Sonata no.1 in G

    Performers: I Musici

    • NEWTON CLASSICS 8802041.
  • 10.30: John Bird's Choices

    • Igor Stravinsky

      Petrushka: 1st Tableau

      Performers: The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez (conductor)

      • DG 477 8730.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No. 93 in D, Hob I:93: III Minuet & Trio; IV Finale

    Performers: Les Musiciens du Louvre, Marc Minkowski (conductor)

    • NAÏVE V5176.
  • Mozart

    Gigue, K574

    Performers: Caliban Quartet

    • CBC RECORDS MVCD 1116.

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  • Mon 19 Aug 2013 09:00

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