Thursday - Sarah Walker with John Bird
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love English Madrigals; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood; Sarah's Essential Choice: Kodaly: Dances of Galanta.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... English madrigals.' Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for English madrigals, showcasing music by Thomas Weelkes, John Dowland, Orlando Gibbons and William Byrd.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the personal relationship that connects two pieces of music.
10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am, is the inspirational social entrepreneur John Bird. Having spent his own childhood and teenage years in an orphanage, on the streets and in prison, in 1991 John launched The Big Issue, a magazine sold by people who are homeless and long-term unemployed. John has been awarded an MBE for services to the homeless.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is Christopher Hogwood, who died in September. A leading figure of the early music revival and the founder of the Academy of Ancient Music, conductor, keyboard player and musicologist Hogwood worked with leading symphony orchestras and opera houses across the world. He was also passionate about the music of the 19th and 20th centuries, and had a worldwide reputation for his combination of musicianship and scholarship.
11am
This week's Essential Choices are all inspired by dance.
Zoltan Kodaly
Dances of Galanta
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Ivan Fischer (conductor).
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
English Folk Song Suite
Music Arranger: Gordon Jacob. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- DECCA.
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5 Reasons to Love... English Madrigals
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John Dowland
Fine Knacks for Ladies
Performer: Anthony Rooley. Ensemble: The King鈥檚 Singers.- EMI.
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Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood
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Henry Purcell
Sonata of 3 parts: No. 7 in E minor, Z.796
Performer: Christophe Coin. Performer: Rachel Podger. Performer: Pavlo Beznosiuk. Performer: Christopher Hogwood.- 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
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Maurice Ravel
Menuet antique
Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.- EMI.
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Benjamin Britten
The Plough Boy
Performer: Allan Clayton. Performer: James Baillieu.- Heritage.
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Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood
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Antonio Vivaldi
Nulla in mundo pax RV.630
Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.- 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
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Imogen Holst
Phantasy Quartet
Performer: Simon Hewitt Jones. Performer: David Worswick. Performer: Tom Hankey. Performer: Oliver Coates.- Court Lane Music.
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John Bird's Choice No. 1
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Franz Liszt
Mephisto Waltz No 1
Performer: John Ogdon.- John Ogdon Plays A Liszt Recital.
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John Bird's Choice No. 2
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Benjamin Britten
The Beggar鈥檚 Opera: My Heart Was So Free; Were I Laid on Greenland鈥檚 Coast
Performer: Nicholas Ward. Author: John Gay. Singer: Tom Randle. Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Singer: Leah-Marian Jones.- CHANDOS.
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Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood
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William Byrd
My Ladye Nevells Book: The Galliarde to the Third Pavian
Performer: Christopher Hogwood - Flemish Harpsichord.
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Joseph Haydn
Cello Concerto in D major
Performer: Christophe Coin. Director: Christopher Hogwood. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music.- 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
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Zolt谩n Kod谩ly
Dances of Galanta
Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer. Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra.- KODALY.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Serenade melancolique
Performer: Lydia Mordkovitch. Performer: Marina Gusak-Grin.- Chandos.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in A, K 488 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Imogen Cooper. Orchestra: Royal Northern Sinfonia.- AVIE.
Relative Values
The answer: father and daughter
The music played:
Holst
'Neptune, the Mystic' from the Planets op. 32
91热爆 Symphony Chorus
91热爆 Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
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Imogen Holst
'O sorrow' from Welcome Joy and Welcome Sorrow
Tanya Houghton (harp)
Choir of Clare College, Cambridge
Graham Ross (conductor)
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