Wednesday - Sarah Walker: Sound of Cinema
With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Petit-Fours: Favourite Things; Artist of the Week: Julian Bream; Essential Choice: Bach: Orchestral Suite No 1 in C.
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: Back to the Beginning.
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
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 1 in C, BWV 1066
Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
Also in this hour, Lucky Dip: Sarah dips into her CD collection and shares a piece - it could be a recent discovery, an old favourite, or simply something that just has to be heard. Expect the unexpected!
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William Walton
Popular Song (Fa莽ade)
Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- Decca.
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Arthur Benjamin
Oboe Concerto in C minor on themes of Domenico Cimarosa
Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: I Musici.- Newton Classics.
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Robert Schumann
Album fur die Jugend, Op. 68: Sehr langsam
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- Chandos.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Consecration of the House: Overture, Op. 124
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Nine Epigrams (No 5)
Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.- Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
- Hyperion.
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Anonymous
Back to the Beginning
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Alonso Mudarra
Fantasia X
Performer: Julian Bream.- RCA.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
The Noonday Witch Op.108
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- Teldec.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto in E major, RV 269 'La Primavera' (Spring)
Performer: Enrico Onofri. Orchestra: Il Giardino Armonico. Conductor: Giovanni Antonini.- Teldec.
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Concierto de Aranjuez
Performer: Julian Bream. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner. -
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Frank Bridge
Two Entr'actes - Rosemary; Canzonetta
Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Richard Wagner
Die Walkure, Act II Scene 4
Singer: R茅gine Crespin. Singer: Jon Vickers. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Romance (The Gadfly Suite, Op 97a)
Performer: Alexander Kerr. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Shostakovich: The Film Album: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra/Chailly.
- Decca.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Orchestral Suite No. 1, BWV 1066
Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Petra M眉llejans. Conductor: Gottfried von der Goltz.- Harmonia Mundi.
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John White
Sonata 127 On themes from "Les enfants du paradis"
Performer: David Smith.- UHR University of Herefordshire.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for piano and orchestra no.12 (K.414) in A major, [complete]
Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Director: Daniel Barenboim.- Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
- EMI Classics.
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