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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Victoria Glendinning

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles - The Sweetheart Soprano; Brainteaser; Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer; Author Victoria Glendinning.

with Sarah Walker and her guest, the biographer, critic, broadcaster and novelist, Victoria Glendinning.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Victoria de los Angeles The Sweetheart Soprano REGIS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Proms Artist of the Week: Ivan Fischer

10:30
She has written biographies of personalities such as Edith Sitwell, Vita Sackville-West, Jonathan Swift, Anthony Trollope and Sir Stamford Raffles, which have been praised for their sensitive approach emphasizing the importance of romantic and family relationships, as opposed to larger historical forces. She has also written three novels, The Grown-Ups, Electricity and Flight. Vice-President of the Royal Society of Literature, Victoria was awarded a CBE in 1998.

2 hours

Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Postillons (from Suite in B flat, 3eme production, Musique de table)

    Conductor: Robert King. Ensemble: King聮s Consort.
    • Hyperion.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Snow Maiden: Suite

    Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.
    • Pentatone Classics.
  • Giacomo Puccini

    Si, mi chiamano Mimi (La Boheme, Act I)

    Conductor: Thomas Beecham. Orchestra: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra. Singer: Victoria de los 脕ngeles. Singer: Jussi Bj枚rling.
    • Alto.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sonata a 5 in B flat HWV.288

    Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • Archiv.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Scherzo 脿 la russe

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Igor Stravinsky

    Tango

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Flute Concerto in G major, RV 435

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
    • EMI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Hebrides Overture Op.26

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski.
    • Hyperion.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Romeo and Juliet - fantasy overture

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.
  • CPE Bach

    Symphony in E, Wq 182 No 6

    Performer: The English Concert. Performer: Trevor Pinnock (director).
    • DG.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Violin Concerto in D, Op 77 (II. Adagio)

    Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • EMI.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Concerto in D, Op 61 (III. Rondo)

    Performer: Arthur Grumiaux. Conductor: Colin Davis. Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.
    • Philips.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Waltz No 15 in E, op posth

    Performer: Claudio Arrau (piano).
    • PHILIPS.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Where am I?

Fingal鈥檚 Cave, a sea cave on the Inner Hebridean island of Staffa. Named after the hero of James Macpherson鈥檚 epic poem, it鈥檚 a natural phenomenon created from basalt stacks.

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