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Monday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Brainteaser: Place that Piece; Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy; Copland: Appalachian Spring.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, developmental psychologist, Uta Frith.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy

10.30am
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.

11am
Copland
Appalachian Spring
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Study in G major, Op 10 No 5, 'Black key'

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Marche militaire fran莽aise (Suite alg茅rienne, Op.60)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
    • Chandos.
  • Innocenzio Alberti

    Pavan of Alberti; Galliard

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Nardini

    Violin Concerto in G major

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.
    • Archiv.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Finlandia Op.26

    Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Thomas Campion

    My love hath vow'd

    Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Andreas Martin.
  • Alexandre Guilmant

    Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.42: Finale

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Hyperion.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.
    • Decca.
  • Robert Schumann

    Von fremden L盲ndern und Menschen (Kinderszenen)

    Performer: Alfred Brendel.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Sonatina in G major, Op 100

    Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.
    • ANALEKTA.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Scherzando No.3 in D - Allegro

    Performer: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Performer: Manfred Huss (conductor).
    • BIS.
  • Aaron Copland

    Appalachian Spring

    Ensemble: Columbia Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Aaron Copland.
    • Sony.
  • Kurt Weill

    Buddy on the nightshift for voice and piano

    Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.
    • 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
    • Deutshe Grammophon.
    • 12.
  • Weill

    Buddy on the Nightshift

    Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano). Performer: Bengt Forsberg (piano).
    • DG.
  • Bach

    Suite No.2 in B minor BWV1067

    Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Pierre Monteux (conductor).
    • DECCA.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece

Westminster Abbey

The music played:

Handel
Let thy hand be strengthened
The King鈥檚 Consort
The Choir of the King鈥檚 Consort
Robert King (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67286

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