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Live at Southbank Centre: Sarah Walker with Jude Kelly

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Brahms: Hungarian Dances; Brainteaser; Guest: Southbank Centre artistic director Jude Kelly; Essential Choice: Rachmaninov: Symphonic Dances.

Live at Southbank Centre with Sarah Walker and her guest, the centre's Artistic Director, Jude Kelly.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Brahms - Hungarian Dances ? The Labeques, DECCA. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artists of the Week: a selection of recordings from Southbank Centre's four resident orchestras - London Philharmonic, Philharmonia, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the London Sinfonietta.

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is Southbank Centre's current Artistic Director, Jude Kelly OBE. Jude has directed over 100 productions, including the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Chichester Festival Theatre, the English National Opera, at the Ch芒telet in Paris and in the West End. Among her many successes as a director, her production of Singin' in the Rain transferred twice to the Royal National Theatre and was awarded the Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Musical Production in 2001. She directed Sir Ian McKellen in The Seagull and The Tempest, Patrick Stewart in Othello, Dawn French in When We Are Married, and the English National Opera in The Elixir of Love and On the Town. More recently, she directed several works by Spanish flamenco guitarist Paco Pe帽a, as well as a production of Bernstein's Mass at the Royal Festival Hall. In 2006, Jude was named No. 8 in "Theatreland's top 100 players" by The Independent newspaper, and in 2013 she was assessed as one of the 100 most powerful women in the UK by Woman's Hour on 91热爆 Radio 4.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op. 45
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Vladimir Jurowski (conductor)

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3 hours

Music Played

  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No.2 in C major

    Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 8 Bit.
    • Nimbus.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    March in B flat major for 2 clarinets, 2 horns and 2 bassoons, WoO 29

    Performer: Gerard Reuter. Performer: Marc Schachman. Performer: Charles Neidich. Performer: Ayako Oshima. Performer: Dennis Godburn. Performer: Michael O'Donovan. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Stewart Rose. Ensemble: Mozzafiato. Conductor: Charles Neidich.
    • Beethoven: Chamber music for wind instruments: Mozzafiato/Neidich.
    • Sony Classical.
    • 6.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dances Nos 12-15

    Performer: Katia Lab猫que.
    • PHILIPS.
  • George Butterworth

    The Banks of Green Willow

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
    • Lyrita.
  • Paul Dukas

    The Sorcerer's apprentice - symphonic scherzo for orchestra

    Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al.
    • Fete a la Francaise: Orchestre Symphonique de Montreal/Dutoit.
    • Decca.
    • 2.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Largo (Symphony No. 9 in E minor, 'From the New World')

    Orchestra: RTV Slovenia Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Rafael Kubel铆k.
    • DG.
  • Edward Elgar

    Andante con variazione 'Evesham Andante'

    Ensemble: Athena Ensemble.
    • Chandos.
  • Edward German

    Nell Gwyn (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • Avie.
  • Hildegard von Bingen

    Ave, generosa

    Singer: Margaret Philpot.
    • Hyperion.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Clarinet Sonata

    Performer: Richard Hosford. Performer: Ian Brown.
    • Hyperion.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Masquerade Suite (Waltz)

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Quartet for oboe and strings (K.370) in F major

    Performer: Neil Black. Ensemble: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Chamber Ensemble.
    • Mozart: Clarinet Quintet/Horn Quintet/Oboe Quartet: Academy of St. Martin in the.
    • Philips.
    • 8.
  • Ottokar Nov谩膷ek

    Moto perpetuo

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Douglas Gamley. Orchestrator: Douglas Gamley.
    • Vocalion.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Symphonic Dances, Op 45

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • LPO.
  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Linden Lea

    Music Arranger: Arthur Somervell. Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Early One Morning: Choir of New College, Oxford/Higginbottom.
    • Erato.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in C major RV.181a

    Performer: Rachel Podger. Orchestra: Holland Baroque Society.
    • Channel.

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