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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Camila Batmanghelidjh

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Amy Beach: Piano Music, with Kirsten Johnson; Artist of the Week: Angela Hewitt; Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 10.

Discover definitive recordings of the greatest classical music with your trusted guide, Sarah Walker. This week her guest is Camila Batmanghelidjh.

9am
A selection of music including Sarah's Essential CD of the Week: Amy Beach's Piano Music performed by Kirsten Johnson.

9.30am
Relative Values
Take part in the daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.

10.00am
Sarah is joined by children's campaigner and psychotherapist Camila Batmanghelidjh, who shares a selection of her favourite classical music. Camila is best known as the founder and director of Kids Company, a charity providing support to vulnerable children and young people.

10.30am
Artist of the Week: Angela Hewitt
Throughout the week the programme explores recordings of the acclaimed British/Canadian pianist.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96
David Oistrakh (violin)
Lev Oborin (piano).

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Wed 15 Oct 2014 09:00
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Music Played

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata No.4 in F, HWV 389 - II. Allegro

    Ensemble: The Brook Street Band.
    • Avie.

  • William Boyce

    Symphony No 5 in D major

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'OISEAU-LYRE.

  • CD Set of the Week

    • Amy Beach

      Serenade (Transcription of R.Strauss's St盲ndchen)

      Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
      • Guild.

  • Richard Strauss

    Serenade in E flat major, Op.7

    Ensemble: Royal Academy of Music Symphonic Wind. Conductor: Keith Bragg.
    • ROYAL ACADEMY OF MUSIC.

  • Domenico Cimarosa

    I tre amanti (Overture)

    Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
    • Overtures - Leppard.
    • Philips Classics.
    • 7.

  • anon

    Relative Values

  • anon

    Une jeune fillette

    Director: Vincent Dumestre. Ensemble: Le Po猫me Harmonique.
    • Alpha.

  • anon

    Relative Values

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Prague Waltzes, B. 99

    Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ji艡铆 B臎lohl谩vek.
    • Supraphon.

  • Bernard Herrmann

    Psycho Suite

    Ensemble: Tippett Quartet.
    • Signum.

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh's Choice No. 1

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      The Seasons: October - Autumn's Song

      Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
      • DECCA.

  • Camila Batmanghelidjh's Choice No. 2

    • Michael Giacchino

      Life and Death (excerpt)

      Music Arranger: Paul Cardall.
      • SHADOW MOUNTAIN RECORDS.

  • Tom谩s Luis de Victoria

    Versa est in luctum (Missa pro defunctis)

    Choir: Armonico Consort. Director: Christopher Monks.
    • Naked Byrd two: Armonico Consort.
    • Signum Classics.
    • 10.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Vedr貌 con mio diletto (Giustino)

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Director: Christian Curnyn.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Italia.
    • Decca.
    • 4.

  • Artist of the Week: Angela Hewitt

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Keyboard Concerto No 1 in D minor, BWV 1052

      Performer: Angela Hewitt. Orchestra: Australian Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Tognetti.
      • Hyperion.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    The Nutcracker - suite (Op.71a), no.1; Miniature overture

    Conductor: James Levine. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.
    • Tchaikovsky: Ballet suites: Levine.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Essential Choice

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Violin Sonata No. 10 in G, Op. 96

      Performer: David Oistrakh. Performer: Lev Oborin.
      • Philips.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Symphony No. 35 in D, K. 385 'Haffner'

    Orchestra: Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century. Conductor: Frans Br眉ggen.
    • Philips.

  • Emmanuel Chabrier

    Menuet pompeux (Pi猫ces pittoresques)

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Chabrier: Dix Pieces Pittoresques: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 11.

Musical Challenge - Relative Values

Answer:

Bernard Herrmann was a friend of Charles Ives from 1933 until Ives' death in 1954. Herrmann conducted many of his works in concerts and on the radio.


The music played:

Excerpts from Herrmann's music to the film Psycho and Ives' The Unanswered Question聽

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