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Thursday - 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: Mozart: Piano Concerto No 10, K365.

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
Mystery Composer
Take part in the music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery composer.

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
Mozart
Piano Concerto No. 10, K.365 for two pianos
Murray Perahia & Radu Lupu (pianos)
English Chamber Orchestra.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Flute Sonata in C major, BWV 1033

    Performer: Andrea Oliva. Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Praeambulum for keyboard (BWV.924) in C major

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • J.S. Bach, The French Suites: Angela Hewitt.
    • Hyperion.
    • 22.
  • Frank Bridge

    Threads (2 Intermezzi)

    Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Bridge: Orchestral Works vol.5: Williams/91热爆 NOW/Hickox.
    • Chandos.
    • 8.
  • Robert White

    Magnificat for 6 voices

    Ensemble: Stile Antico.
    • Puer Natus Est, Tudor Music For Advent and Christmas: Stile Antico.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 10.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Lucio Silla K.135 - Overture: Molto allegro

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Benvenuto Cellini (Overture)

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.
  • Alessandro Scarlatti

    Sonata for Recorder and Two Violins in A minor

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • Teldec.
  • CD Set of the Week

    • Amy Beach

      2 Pieces, Op.102

      Performer: Kirsten Johnson.
      • Guild.
  • Franz Liszt

    Hungarian Battle March S.119

    Conductor: Willi Boskovsky. Orchestra: Philharmonia Hungarica.
    • EMI.
  • Trad

    Le Baylere

    Choir: The King鈥檚 Singers.
    • Signum.
  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Alceste Suite (excerpt)

    Director: Jordi Savall. Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations.
    • Alia Vox.
  • Charles-Valentin Alkan

    Petit conte

    Performer: Ronald Smith.
    • EMI.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sursum corda Op.11

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • WARNER.
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh's Choice No. 1

    • Christoph Willibald Gluck

      Orfeo ed Euridice - Dance of the Blesses Spirits

      Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Raymond Leppard.
      • CBS.
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh's Choice No. 2

    • Gaetano Donizetti

      L'elisir d'amore - 'Una furtiva lagrima'

      Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Singer: Luciano Pavarotti. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
      • DECCA.
  • Alexander Glazunov

    Concert waltz no. 1 in D major Op.47

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.
  • Artist of the Week: Angela Hewitt

    • Maurice Ravel

      Valses nobles et sentimentales

      Performer: Angela Hewitt.
      • Hyperion.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in E flat major for 2 trumpets

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Performer: Michael Laird. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Iona Brown.
    • Philips.
  • Essential Choice

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Piano Concerto No. 10, K.365 for two pianos

      Performer: Murray Perahia. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Performer: Radu Lupu.
      • Sony.

Musical Challenge - Mystery Composer

Clues:
With my friends Chopin and Liszt I was one of the most celebrated virtuoso pianists in Paris, a city in which I spent most of my life.
I was a talented linguist, fluent in Hebrew and Greek, and I devoted much time to a complete new translation of the Bible into French.
Legend has it I met a rather grisly end underneath a bookcase.

Answer
The composer was Charles Valentin Alkan

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