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Wednesday - 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: Bridge: Enter 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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Bridge
Enter Spring
贬补濒濒茅
Mark Elder (conductor).

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Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Singet dem Herrn ein neues Lied, BWV.225

    Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • Phi.

  • Frank Bridge

    Three pieces for organ: III Allegro Marcato

    Ensemble: Maggini Quartet.
    • Naxos.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Fugue in G major BWV.577 'A la Gigue'

    Ensemble: Amsterdam Loeki Stardust Quartet.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    Wallenstein's Camp Op.14

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

  • John Taverner

    Quomadmodum a 6

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

  • anon

    Puzzle

    Conductor: anon.

  • Claude Debussy

    Lindaraja

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Performer: Vovka Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Misericordias Domini in D minor K.222 'Offertorium de tempore'

    Singer: Joanne Lunn. Singer: Rowan Hellier. Singer: Thomas Hobbs. Singer: Matthew Brook. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort and Players. Conductor: John Butt.
    • Linn.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Overture 'May Night'

    Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • Decca.

  • Bedrich Smetana

    The Bartered Bride (Overture)

    Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.
    • SONY.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    "Papagena! Weibchen, Taubchen!" (Die Zauberflote, Act II)

    Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Singer: Lisa Otto. Singer: Rosl Schwaiger. Singer: Raili Kostia. Singer: Antonia Fahberg. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Karl B枚hm.
    • DG.

  • Frank Bridge

    Enter Spring

    Orchestra: 贬补濒濒茅. Conductor: Sir Mark Elder.
    • HALLE.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Dolly Suite - Kitty Valse

    Performer: Amsterdam Guitar Trio.
    • RCA.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Intermezzo

    Ensemble: Dante Quartet.
    • HYPERION CDA67999.

  • Rachmaninov

    Lilacs

    Performer: Howard Shelley (piano).
    • HELIOS CDH55458.

  • Antony Pitts

    Sanctus and Benedictus

    Performer: Tonus Peregrinus.
    • HYPERION.

  • Henry Purcell

    The Fairy Queen - Act IV Symphony

    Performer: Alison Balsom (natural trumpet). Performer: The English Concert. Performer: Trevor Pinnock (conductor).
    • EMI.

  • John Ireland

    Fantasy-Sonata

    Performer: Michael Collins (clarinet). Performer: Michael McHale (piano).
    • CHANDOS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Puzzle

Listen to the听four clips of music, work out the initials of the composers, and that gives you to the initials of another composer. Answer: N.A.R.K. - Nikolai Andreyevich Rimsky Korsakov.


The music played:

听

Nicolai
Overture 鈥� The Merry Wives of Windsor
London Philharmonic Orchestra
Alfred Scholtz (conductor)
MADACY 9104听听

听

Arne
Rule Brittania
Band of the Life Guards
Major Colin Reeves (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SK 49473听

听

Rossini
Overture: Semiramide
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado (conductor)
RCA VD87814听听听

听

Khachaturian
Sabre Dance
Philadelphia Orchestra
Eugene Ormandy (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SBK 62647

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