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Friday - Sarah Walker with Miranda Seymour

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Choral Music from the Renaissance and Baroque; Artist of the Week; Sarah's Essential Choice: Strauss: Tod und Verklarung.

Sarah Walker with her guest, the novelist and biographer Miranda Seymour.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Choral music from the Renaissance and Baroque with the Cambridge Singers and La Nuova Musica under John Rutter. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30 - today, Only Connect.

10am
Artist of the Week: Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the novelist and biographer, Miranda Seymour. Biographies by Miranda include the lives of Ottoline Morrell, Mary Shelley, Virginia Cherrill (Chaplin's Girl), Hell茅 Nice (Bugatti Queen), Henry James (A Ring of Conspirators) and Robert Graves (about whom she also wrote a novel, The Telling, and a radio play, Sea Music). In My Father's House won the 2008 Pen Ackerley Memoir of the Year prize and was selected as a New York Times Book of the Year. Miranda's latest book - Noble Endeavours: Stories from England; Stories from Germany - was published earlier this year.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Richard Strauss
Tod und Verkl盲rung
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra
Herbert Blomstedt (conductor)
DECCA.

3 hours

Music Played

  • anon

    Only Connect

    Conductor: anon.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Symphony in A major, Wq 182, No 4

    Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Hengelbrock.
    • Deutsche Harmonia Mundi.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie Fantastique: Dream of a Witches Sabbath

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA.
  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Jesu dulcis memoria; O vos omnes

    Choir: The Cambridge Singers. Conductor: John Rutter.
    • Collegium.
  • Dmitry Bortniansky

    With my voice I cried out to the Lord

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Legend

    Choir: Eesti Filharmoonia Kammerkoor. Conductor: Paul Hillier.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Excelsior! Op.13

    Orchestra: Gothenberg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • BIS.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Canarie (Le bourgeois gentilhomme)

    Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Nikolay Tcherepnin

    The Enchanted Kingdom: Prelude

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Newton Classics.
  • Jacques Offenbach

    La belle Helene: Act I, 7b Couplet des Rois

    Singer: Roger Trentin. Singer: Gerard Desroches. Singer: Colette Alliot-Lugaz. Singer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Lafont. Singer: Jacques Loreau. Singer: Charles Burles. Singer: Gabriel Bacquier. Conductor: Toulouse Capitole Choir. Orchestra: Toulouse Capitol National Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Plasson.
    • EMI.
  • Richard Strauss

    Tod und Verklarung, Op. 24

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Herbert Blomstedt.
    • Decca.
  • Richard Strauss

    Der Rosenkavalier (Waltzes)

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA Living Stereo.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Valse sentimentale, Op 51 No 6

    Performer: Henri Demarquette. Performer: Boris Berezovsky. Music Arranger: Viktor Kubatsky.
    • Mirare.

Today's Brainteaser Answer

Only Connect. The connection was Girls' Names: Helene, Elise, Sylvia.

The music played:

Offenbach
La belle Helene (Act 1: 7b Couplets des Rois)
Choir and Orchestra of the Toulouse Capitole Orchestra
Michel Plasson (conductor)
EMI CDS 747157聽聽

Beethoven
Fur Elise 鈥 Bagatelle, WoO 59
Alfred Brendel (piano)
PHILIPS聽 412 227 2

Schubert
An Sylvia
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau (baritone)
Gerald Moore (piano)
DG 415 188 2

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