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Friday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Murray Perahia: Songs Without Words; Brainteaser: Songs Without Words; Artist of the Week: Z Kocsis; Essential Choice: Borodin: Symphony No 1.

With Sarah Walker and her guest the author, Philip Pullman. Also, at 9:30am, our brainteaser: Songs Without Words

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Murray Perahia: Songs Without Words

10am
Artist of the Week: Hungarian pianist, conductor and composer, Zoltan Kocsis.

10.30am
In the week of 91热爆 Children in Need, Sarah's guest is the multi-award winning author Philip Pullman, best known for the fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials. The final instalment, The Amber Spyglass, won the 2001 Whitbread Prize for best children's book and the Whitbread Book of the Year prize in January 2002, the first children's book to receive that award. In 2005 Pullman won the biggest prize in children's literature, the annual Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award from the Swedish Arts Council. Many of his works have been adapted for screen including I Was a Rat!, The Butterfly Tattoo, The Ruby in the Smoke and a film adaptation of Northern Lights, titled The Golden Compass, was released in December 2007. In 2012, Pullman was asked by Penguin Classics to curate 50 of Grimms' classic fairytales, from their collection of over 200 tales.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Borodin
Symphony No.1 in E flat
Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor)
PHILIPS.

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No 30 (K.202) in D major

    Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Jeffrey Tate.
    • Mozart The Collectors Edition 50 CDs The Masterpieces The Greatest Artists.
    • EMI Classics.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    L'indiscrete (from 4eme concert, Pieces de clavecin en concert)

    Ensemble: Sonnerie.
    • Virgin.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Abu Hassan: Overture

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • DG.

  • Franz Schubert

    St盲ndchen (Schwanengesang)

    Music Arranger: Franz Liszt. Performer: Murray Perahia.
    • Sony.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Flute Quartet in C, K.285b

    Performer: William Bennett. Ensemble: Grumiaux Trio.
    • Philips.

  • anon

    Only Connect

    Conductor: anon.

  • Edvard Grieg

    Lyric Pieces, Op 43 (selection)

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • Philips.

  • Franz Schubert

    Quartettsatz in C minor, D.703

    Ensemble: The Lindsays.
    • ASV.

  • Trad

    Dick's Maggot (English folk dances - suite no.1)

    Music Arranger: Ernest Tomlinson. Orchestra: Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Tomlinson.
    • Marco Polo.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Concerto no.1 in E flat major S.124

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Philips.

  • Henry Purcell

    6 part In nomine

    Performer: Fretwork.
    • VIRGIN VERITAS.

  • Nikolai Karlovich Medtner

    'Night Wind' Sonata, Op. 25 No. 2 (part 2)

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

  • Robert Schumann

    M盲rchenbilder, Op 113 (No 1 in D minor)

    Performer: Lawrence Power. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Hyperion.

  • Mozart arr Triebensee

    Giovinette che fate all'amore (Don Giovanni, Act I)

    Performer: Budapest Wind Ensemble.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Alexander Borodin

    Symphony No. 1 in E flat

    Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Orchestra: Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.
    • Symphonies nos.1 & 2.
    • Philips.
    • 1-4.

  • Mozart

    Symphony No 30 in D, K202

    Performer: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Jeffrey Tate (conductor).
    • EMI.

Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answer

Only Connect

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How are the people in these three pieces linked? They appear in the phrase:

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The music played:

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Wood

Tom Bowling (Fantasia on British Sea Songs)

91热爆 Symphony Orchestra

Andrew Davis (conductor)

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Trad arr Tomlinson

Dick's Maggot (from First Suite of English Folk-Dances)

Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra

Ernest Tomlinson (conductor)

MARCO POLO 8223513听听

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John Williams

Hedwig鈥檚 Theme from Harry Potter and the Philosopher鈥檚 Stone

Film Sountrack

John Williams (conductor)

ATLANTIC 7567930865听听听

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