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Monday - Sarah Walker with Chris Beardshaw

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Cello World: Steven Isserlis with Thomas Ades, Artist of the Week: Alina Ibragimova and Sarah's guest, garden designer Chris Beardshaw.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Cello World, featuring Steven Isserlis with Thomas Ades. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Alina Ibragimova

10.30am
In the week of the Chelsea Flower Show, Sarah's guest is the award-winning garden designer and broadcaster Chris Beardshaw.

Chris is principally trained in landscape architecture and separately as a horticulturalist, which makes him a rare combination in the garden design world. His enthusiasm for plants, good design and the desire to work in harmony with the natural landscape and wildlife is reflected throughout his work.

His long broadcasting career includes the 91热爆's Gardeners' World and series such as Hidden Gardens and the hugely popular The Flying Gardener, amongst many others. He is also a regular expert on Radio 4's Gardeners' Question Time panel, where he intrepidly faces a live audience of gardening enthusiasts!

Chris has received over 15 RHS medals, many of which are Best in Shows and Gold awards, as well as a growing selection of international accolades. He has also written a number of books, including 100 Plants that Almost Changed the World, and he currently contributes columns for The English Garden Magazine and for Garden News.

11am
Mussorgsky
Songs and Dances of Death
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.

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Music Played

  • David Popper

    Dance of the Elves

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • RCA.

  • Henry Purcell

    Chacony in G minor

    Ensemble: London Baroque.
    • BIS.

  • Claude Debussy

    Nocturne and Scherzo: Scherzo

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • RCA.

  • Richard Strauss

    Horn Concerto no.1 in E flat major Op.11

    Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Britten Sinfonia. Conductor: Nicholas Cleobury.
    • EMI.

  • anon

    Transports of Delight

    Conductor: anon.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata in C major, BWV 529

    Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: Alastair Ross. Performer: Mark Caudle.
    • EMI.

  • John Adams

    The Chairman Dances

    Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Nikolai Roslavets

    Violin Concerto No. 2

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Hyperion.

  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in A minor, Kk.54

    Performer: Vladimir Horowitz (piano).
    • SONY.

  • Ralph Vaughan Williams

    Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

    Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Rejoice, O Virgin (Vespers)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • Signum.

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    Romanian Folk Dances, Sz.68: Sash Dance

    Performer: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Performer: Ivan Fischer (conductor).
    • PHILIPS.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    Songs and Dances of Death

    Singer: Eugene Nestrenko. Performer: Vladimir Krainev.
    • Melodiya.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Three Movements from L'Etoile

    Performer: Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Performer: Neeme Jarvi (conductor).
    • CHANDOS.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    String Quartet No. 12 in F major, Op. 96 'American'

    Ensemble: Pavel Haas Quartet.
    • Supraphon.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Transports of Delight

An aeroplane, the Air Force One that Richard Nixon dubbed the 鈥楽pirit of 鈥�76鈥�.

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The music played:

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Nixon in China: Landing of the Spirit of 鈥�76

Orchestra of St Luke鈥檚

Edo de Waart (conductor)

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  • Mon 19 May 2014 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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