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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things; Artist of the Week: Julian Bream; Sarah's Essential Choice: Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things, The Brodsky Quartet CHANDOS CHAN10708; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser: Originally Written For...?

10am
Artist of the Week: Julian Bream, who celebrates his 80th Birthday this year.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer and philosopher, Roger Scruton. Roger frequently engages in contemporary political and cultural debates from the standpoint of a conservative thinker. His most recent books include Our Church: A Personal History of the Church of England, and Green Philosophy. His books dedicated specifically to music include The Aesthetics of Music and Understanding Music: Philosophy and Interpretation. He has also composed two operas: The Minister, and Violet, based on the life of Violet Gordon-Woodhouse.

11am
Essential Choice

Tchaikovsky: Violin Concerto
Vadim Repin (violin)
Kirov Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor).

2 hours

Last on

Tue 10 Sep 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Charles Gounod

    Faust: Ballet Music - Variations du Mirroir

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.
  • Pablo de Sarasate

    Zapateado, Op 23 No 2

    Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo in A minor, K.511

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Gustav Holst

    Suite in F major for military band, Op 28 No 2

    Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anonymous

    BT - Originally Written For

    Performer: Anonymous.
    • Egon.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Russian Easter Festival Overture

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Igor Markevitch.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Anton Bruckner

    Os iusti meditabitur

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • Hyperion.
  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Espana

    Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.
    • MERCURY.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata in C minor, BWV825

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • RCA.
  • Johann Adam Hiller

    Die Jagd (Overture)

    Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Blomstedt 1998-2005 in Leipzig: Blomstedt/Gewandhaus orchestra.
    • Querstand Records.
  • Manuel de Falla

    Danza espanola No 1 (La vida breve)

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.
    • RCA.
  • William Byrd

    Ave verum corpus

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Decca.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Piano Quintet No. 2 in A minor, Op. 81: Andante con moto

    Ensemble: Smetana Quartet. Performer: Pavel 艩t臎p谩n.
    • Testament.
  • Carl Nielsen

    The Fog is Lifting

    Performer: Judith Hall. Performer: Elinor Bennett.
    • Images and Impressions: Music for Flute & Harp.
    • Nimbus.
    • 12.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35

    Performer: Vadim Repin. Orchestra: Kirov Orchestra. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • Philips.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E minor, Hob. XVI/34

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Luigi Boccherini

    Guitar Quintet in D major, G 488 (Introduction and Fandango)

    Music Arranger: Julian Bream. Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: George Malcolm.
    • RCA.

Broadcast

  • Tue 10 Sep 2013 09:00

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