Thursday - Sarah Walker with Shami Chakrabarti
With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Verdi Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music; Recording Rewind; Artists of the Week: The Hagen Quartet; Shami Chakrabarti; Allegri: Miserere.
With Sarah Walker and her guest, human rights campaigner Shami Chakrabarti.
9am
A selection of music including Sarah's Essential CD of the Week: Verdi's Preludes, Overtures and Ballet Music performed by the 91热爆 Philharmonic Orchestra.
9.30am
Recording Rewind
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards
Artists of the Week: The Hagen Quartet, an Austrian group long admired for their collaborative spirit, quality of sound and range of recordings. Sarah will showcase music ranging from Haydn, Mozart and Beethoven to Hugo Wolf.
10.30am
Sarah is joined by Shami Chakrabarti, who shares some of her favourite classical music. Director of the British advocacy organisation Liberty since 2003, Shami Chakrabarti is a leading human rights campaigner. She talks to Sarah about her career as well as the role classical music has played in her life.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Allegri
Miserere
The Sixteen
Harry Christophers (conductor)
CORO.
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Gregorio Allegri
Miserere mei, Deus
Performer: The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.- Coro.
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Recording Rewind
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Robert Schumann
Abegg Variations Op.1
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Decca.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No 1 in G major (Prelude)
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma.- CBS.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Overture to 'Giovanna d'Arco'
Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Edward Downes.- Chandos.
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.2 in C sharp minor
Performer: Shura Cherkassky.- WIGMORE HALL LIVE.
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Dum complerentur
Conductor: Harry Christophers. Choir: The Sixteen.- Coro.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Marche Slave Op.31
Conductor: Charles Dutoit. Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al.- Decca.
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Robert Schumann
String Quartet in A, Op.41 No. 3
Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.- DG.
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George Frideric Handel
Passacaille, Gigue and Menuet in G major........: 1st mvt; Passacaille
Ensemble: Brook Street Band.- Avie.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony no. 9 in C major H.1.9
Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.- NIMBUS.
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Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni
Concerto a 5 for 2 oboes and strings (Op.9`12) in D major, 1st movement; Allegro
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Performer: Academy of Ancient Music. -
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Giovanni Battista Pergolesi
Stabat Mater
Conductor: Christopher Hogwood. Singer: James Bowman. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.- L'Oiseau-Lyre.
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Giuseppe Verdi
Requiem (Sanctus)
Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano. Ensemble: Orchestra of the Academy of Santa Cecilia, Rome.- EMI.
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Bedrich Smetana
Prague Carnival
Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda. Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic.- Chandos.
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Traditional
Tarantella Italiana
Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.- La Tarantella: L'Arpeggiata/Christine Pluhar.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Flourish
Ensemble: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Ensemble.- CHANDOS.
Today's Answer - Recording Rewind
The music played:
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Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2 in C sharp minor 听听听
Shura Cherkassky (piano)
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