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Monday - Sarah Walker with James May

A selection of music with Sarah Walker and at 10.30am her guest is writer and television presenter James May. Also at 9.30am, our daily brainteaser Transports of Delight.

Sarah Walker's guest this week is writer and television presenter James May.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Bach - Das wohltemperierte Klavier, Book II, Christophe Rousset (harpsichord), APART脡 AP070. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is James May, the writer and TV presenter best known as one of the trio of 'Top Gear' presenters alongside Jeremy Clarkson and Richard Hammond. But there's more to James than his macho image would suggest - not many people know that he studied music at Lancaster University, and is a keen flautist and keyboard player who loves early music, as Sarah Walker will discover this week.

11am
Vaughan Williams
Symphony No. 9
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • Franz Liszt

    Valse oubli茅e No 1 in F sharp major

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Marche h茅ro茂que in E flat major, Op 34

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
    • Decca.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude and Fugue in C, BWV 870

    Performer: Christophe Rousset.
    • Aparte.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Octet

    Ensemble: Twentieth-Century Classics Ensemble. Conductor: Robert Craft.
    • Naxos.

  • Schubert, transcr. Liszt

    Die Taubenpost, from Schwanengesang, S560 no.13

    Performer: Leslie Howard (piano).
    • HYPERION.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Bassoon Concerto in C minor RV.480

    Performer: Sergio Azzolini. Orchestra: L'Aura Soave Cremona.
    • Naive.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Wiener Blut, Op 354

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • Sony.

  • Franz Liszt

    Piano Sonata in B minor, S178

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • Philips.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Concerto Grosso no.8 in C minor, HWV 326; 6th mvt (Allegro)

    Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. Performer: Andrew Manze (conductor).
    • HYPERION.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, BWV 582

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    In Dir Est Freude, BWV 615

    Performer: Nikolai Demidenko. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Hyperion.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Chorale-Prelude 'Nun freut euch, lieben Christen g'mein', BWV 734

    Performer: Nikolai Demidenko. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • Hyperion.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Symphony No. 9

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • EMI.

  • Gustav Holst

    The 91热爆coming

    Choir: Baccholian Singers of London.
    • EMI.

  • Schubert

    Rondo in B minor, D895

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova (violin). Performer: Cedric Tiberghien (piano).
    • HYPERION.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Transports of Delight

Answer: Pigeon post.

The music played:

Schubert, transcr. Liszt
Die Taubenpost, from Schwanengesang, S560 No.13
Leslie Howard (piano)
HYPERION CDA66954/6

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