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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Douglas Kennedy

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week; Brainteaser: Listener Puzzle; Artist of the Week: Emanuel Ax; Essential Choice: Mozart: Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), K477.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, novelist and travel writer Douglas Kennedy.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra - plays Wagner, Sibelius, Puccini, Wolf, Turina, Dvorak, Berlioz DG 431 680-2. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30: today, Listener Puzzle.

10am
Artist of the Week: Emanuel Ax.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the American novelist Douglas Kennedy. Born in Manhattan, Douglas divides his time between there and Maine as well as Berlin, Paris and London. His books are internationally renowned, with 11 novels translated in 22 countries. Three films have been made from his work, including 'The Big Picture' starring Romain Duris and Catherine Deneuve, and 'The Woman in the Fifth' with Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. He is the most celebrated modern American writer in France where his last six novels have all been critically acclaimed no.1 Bestsellers. In 2007 he was awarded The Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and received the first Grand Prix du Figaro two years later. He continues to contribute reportage, essays and literary reviews to The Times The New Statesman, Le Monde, Le Figaro and Le Nouvel Observateur. His most recent novel, 'Five Days', was published to critical acclaim in 2013 and is published by Arrow in paperback next month.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice:
Mozart
Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), K477
London Symphony orchestra
Istvan Kertesz (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Rondo (Divertimento in B flat, K439b No 1)

    Ensemble: Wind Soloists of the Chamber Orchestra of Europe.
    • Teldec.

  • Jules Massenet

    Suite No 4 (Scenes pittoresques)

    Orchestra: Monte Carlo Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Erato.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse triste, Op 44

    Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.

  • Enrique Granados

    Goyescas: Intermezzo

    Performer: Julian Bream. Performer: John Williams.
    • RCA.

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Polonaise in C, Op 89

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • RCA.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Brandenburg Concerto No 2 in F

    Performer: Robert Ehrlich. Performer: Katharina Sprecklesen. Performer: David Blackadder. Performer: Bojan 膶i膷i膰. Orchestra: European Brandenburg Ensemble. Director: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Avie.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Berceuse, Op 16

    Performer: Isabelle Faust. Performer: Florent Boffard.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • Robert Schumann

    Humoreske, Op 20

    Performer: Emanuel Ax.
    • Newton Classics.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Symphony No 7 in C major, Op 105

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • Philips.

  • John Taverner

    Agnus Dei 2 (Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas)

    Choir: Tallis Scholars. Conductor: Peter Phillips.
    • Gimell.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Espanola (Suite No 1 for small orchestra)

    Performer: Basel Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Christopher Hogwood (conductor).
    • ARTE NOVA.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Maurerische Trauermusik (Masonic Funeral Music), K477

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.
    • Decca.

  • Alexander Dreyschock

    Morceau de Concert Op. 27

    Orchestra: Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Howard Shelley.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    String Quartet in A, Op 18 No 5

    Performer: Guarneri Quartet.
    • RCA RED SEAL.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle

We heard three pieces of music 鈥� a symphony, a violin sonata and a ballet, all of which have names that belong to Stradivarius violins. The first piece was Mozart鈥檚 'Jupiter' Symphony 鈥� and the Jupiter Stradivarius belonged to Viotti; then the 'Kreutzer' sonata by Beethoven 鈥� the Kreutzer Stradivarius belongs to Maxim Vengerov; and finally, part of Tchaikovsky鈥檚 Sleeping Beauty 鈥� the Sleeping Beauty Stradivarius is on loan to Isabelle Faust.聽

The music played:

Mozart
Jupiter Symphony 鈥� no 41 in C K551
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Riccardo Muti (conductor)
Philips 442 126 2聽聽聽

Beethoven
Finale of Kreutzer Sonata 鈥� no 9 op 47
Itzhak Perlman (violin)
Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
DECCA 410 554 2 聽聽聽

Tchaikovsky
Waltz (Act 1 Sleeping Beauty)
Russian National Orchestra
Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
DG 457 634 2聽

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