Main content
Sorry, this episode is not currently available

Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters; Essential Choice: Schumann: Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54.

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 - Only Connect

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

Schumann
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.54
Murray Perahia (piano)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
Colin Davis (conductor).

3 hours

Last on

Fri 18 Oct 2013 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

More episodes

Previous

Thursday - Sarah Walker

Next

Monday - Rob Cowan

See all episodes from Essential Classics

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Alceste: La Fete infernale, 1er Air

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute (Overture)

    Orchestra: Mahler Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Incidental music to Sigurd Jorsalfar, Op. 22: Homage March

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

  • Schubert

    Adagio and Rondo concertante in F major, D.487

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in B flat major, RV 362, 'La caccia'

    Orchestra: Europa Galante. Director: Fabio Biondi.
    • Virgin.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Tragic Overture, Op. 81

    Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.
    • Sony.

  • Sergey Prokofiev

    March; Scherzo (The Love for Three Oranges, Op 33b)

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • 91热爆 Legends.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Ma M猫re l'Oye

    Ensemble: Katia & Marielle Lab猫que.
    • Jeux d'enfants / Ma M猫re l'Oye / Dolly Suite.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 19-23.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Le Pas Espanol (Dolly Suite)

    Music Group: Amsterdam Guitar Trio.
    • RCA.

  • Ole Bull

    Cantabile doloroso e Rondo giocoso (1837)

    Performer: Arve Tellefsen. Orchestra: Trondheim Symfoniorkester. Conductor: Eivind Aadland.
    • Simax.

  • Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

    Stabat mater: Stabat mater dolorosa; Cujus animam gementem; O quam tristis

    Singer: June Anderson. Singer: Cecilia Bartoli. Orchestra: Sinfonietta de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Decca.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Elegia: Larghetto (Miniatures, Op 75a)

    Performer: Josef Suk. Performer: Karel Unterm眉ller. Performer: Miroslav Ambro拧.
    • SUPRAPHON.

  • Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

    Tu es Petrus

    Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.
    • The Feast of Saint Peter the Apostle at Westminster Abbey: Quinney/O'Donnell.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.

  • Robert Schumann

    Piano Concerto in A minor, Op 54

    Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Sony.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Czech suite (Op.39), [complete]

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Dvorak: Slavonic Dances etc.: RPO/Detroit SO/Dorati.
    • Decca.
    • 9.

  • Alison Balsom

    Come if you dare (King Arthur, Act I) arr.ed. Balsom

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • EMI.

Today's Brainteaser: Only Connect

The connection between the 3 pieces was Fruit.
The pieces we heard were:
Cherry Ripe by Frank BridgeThe traditional folk song Strawberry FairThe March from the Love of Three Oranges by Sergei Prokofiev

Broadcast

  • Fri 18 Oct 2013 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

Our Classical Century

Our Classical Century

Radio 3 explores 100 key musical moments that shaped us, from 1918 to the present day.

Time Travellers: the podcast

Time Travellers: the podcast

Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough presents quirky tales gathered from the corners of history.