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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Includes Essential CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters; Essential Choice: Mozart: Mass in C minor.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg ? Complete Music with Orchestra ? Gothenburg Symphony, Neeme J盲rvi (conductor); and at 9.30 our brainteaser - What am I?

10am
Artists of the Week: The Lab猫que Sisters

10.30am
The Man Booker Prize is announced this week and Sarah's guest is the 2011 prize-winner, the novelist Julian Barnes. A graduate of modern languages, Julian has worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and has written for the New Statesman and the Observer. He is a keen Francophile and has appeared in a 91热爆 Radio 4 series of Inspector Maigret adaptations. Julian was made Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2004. His many international literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award (Metroland 1981); Prix M茅dicis (FP 1986); E. M. Forster Award (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1986) and the Prix Femina (Talking It Over 1992).

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mozart
Mass in C minor, K.427
Sylvia McNair and Diana Montague (sopranos)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Cornelius Hauptmann (bass)
Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Ant贸nio da Silva Leite

    Minuete

    Performer: Taro Takeuchi. Performer: 沤ak Ozmo.
    • 18th Century Portuguese Love Songs: L'Avventura London/Zak Ozmo.
    • Hyperion.
    • 10.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    March in B flat, WoO 29

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.

  • Bernhard Crusell

    Divertimento, Op.9

    Performer: Christopher O'Neal. Ensemble: Fibonacci Sequence.
    • Deux-Elles.

  • Claude Debussy

    Lindaraja

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que.
    • en Blanc et Noir - The Debussy Album.
    • Philips.
    • 016.

  • Julius Fucik

    Der alte Brummb盲r, Op 210

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • Warner Apex.

  • Orlando Gibbons

    Fantasia a 6, MB.48.31

    Ensemble: Phantasm.
    • Gibbons: Sonsorts for Viols: Phantasm.
    • Avie.
    • 4.

  • Percy Grainger

    The Lads of Wamphray

    Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.
    • Grainger: Works for Wind Orchestra vol. 4: Reynish/Rundell.
    • Chandos.
    • 4.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Two Nordic Melodies, Op. 63

    Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso in G major, Op 6 No 1

    Orchestra: Handel and Haydn Society. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • Decca.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Eugene Onegin: Act I (opening)

    Singer: Teresa Kubiak. Singer: J煤lia Hamari. Singer: Anna Reynolds. Singer: Enid Hartle. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Conductor: Georg Solti.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Mass in C minor, K 427

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Singer: Diana Montague. Singer: Anthony Rolfe Johnson. Singer: Cornelius Hauptmann. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Philips.

  • Francis Poulenc

    Concerto in D minor for two pianos (2nd mvt)

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que. Performer: Marielle Lab猫que. Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.
    • Philips.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    L'italiana in Algeri (Overture)

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Overtures (The Chamber Orchestra of Europe feat. conductor: Claudio Abbado).
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 003.

  • Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky

    Partita for cello, piano, harpsichord, electric guitar & percussion: Toccata

    Performer: Mstislav Rostropovich. Performer: Alexander Dedyuhkin. Performer: Boris Alexandrovich Tchaikovsky. Performer: A. Malichko & A. Godin.
    • EMI.

  • Heitor Villa鈥怢obos

    Schottisch-Choro (Suite populaire bresilienne)

    Performer: Julian Bream.

Today's Brainteaser: What am I?

I am Handel's Wig!聽

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