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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Brainteaser; Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Haydn: Spring (The Seasons).

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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Haydn
The Seasons: Spring
Barbara Bonney (soprano)
Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor)
Andreas Schmidt (bass-baritone)
Monteverdi Choir
Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique
John Eliot Gardiner (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herr Christ, der ein'ge Gottes-Sohn BWV.601

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Oboe d'amore Concerto (from BWV.54)

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Ensemble: Trinity Baroque. Ensemble: The English Concert.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Claude Debussy

    Premiere rhapsodie for clarinet and orchestra

    Performer: Franklin Cohen. Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Anon.

    Galliard and Allemande

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Josef Strauss

    Rudolfsheimer - Polka Op.152

    Performer: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. Performer: Willi Boskovsky (conductor).
    • DECCA.
  • Robert Schumann

    Blumenst眉ck Op.19

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • William Boyce

    Symphony no.7 in B flat major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'oiseau Lyre.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Bundeslied Op.122

    Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • CBS Masterworks.
  • Richard Strauss

    Andante for horn and piano

    Performer: Barry Tuckwell. Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Serenade for strings in C Op.48

    Orchestra: St Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata No 40 in E flat major, H XVI 25

    Performer: Jean-Efflam Bavouzet.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Richard Wagner

    Dawn and Siegfried's Rhine Journey (Gotterdammerung)

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Klaus Tennstedt.
    • EMI.
  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Suite from Zoroastre - Contradanse

    Performer: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Performer: Lars Ulrik Mortensen (director).
    • GIFT OF MUSIC.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Komm, holder Lenz! (The Seasons)

    Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: Orchestre R茅volutionnaire et Romantique. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
    • Archiv.
  • Isaac Alb茅niz

    Iberia - Suite

    Orchestra: Minneapolis Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • Mercury Living Presence.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Critics' Corner

The author was Goethe, writing about Beethoven, whom he met in Teplitz in 1812.

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