Friday - 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: Copland: Dance Symphony.
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: identify a piece of music played backwards.
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.
Aaron Copland
Dance Symphony
Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop (conductor).
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Music Played
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Franz Schubert
Heidenr枚slein, D 257
Singer: Ian Bostridge. Performer: Julius Drake.- EMI CLASSICS.
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Franz Schubert
String Quartet No 12 in C Minor 鈥淨uartettsatz鈥�
Ensemble: Belcea Quartet.- EMI.
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5 Reasons to Love
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John Wilbye
Draw on Sweet Night
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.- VIRGIN.
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Hector Berlioz
Waverley Overture
Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Colin Davis.- RCA.
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Thomas Weelkes
The Nightingale
Ensemble: Quink Vocal Ensemble.- TELARC.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Night on a Bare Mountain
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.- RCA LIVING STEREO.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in D major K.576
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- PHILIPS.
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John Bird's Choice No.1
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Sergey Prokofiev
Symphony No. 3 鈥� Andantino Mosso
Orchestra: Orchestre national de France. Conductor: Mstislav Rostropovich.- Warner Classics.
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John Bird's Choice No.2
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni: 鈥淢adamina, il catalogo e questo鈥�
Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Singer: Ildebrando d鈥橝rcangelo. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- ARCHIV.
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Sarah's choice for John Bird
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No. 96: Andante
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.- 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
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Artist of the Week: Christopher Hogwood
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cantata No 202, 'Weichet nur, betr眉bte Schatten'
Singer: Emma Kirkby. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.- DECCA.
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John Dowland
Fantasia No.1
Performer: Nigel North (lute). -
Essential Choice
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Aaron Copland
Dance Symphony
Conductor: Marin Alsop. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra.- NAXOS.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Trio No. 2 in C minor, Op. 66
Performer: Daniel M眉ller鈥怱chott. Performer: Jonathan Gilad. Performer: Julia Fischer.- PENTATONE.
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Henry Purcell
Distress'd Innocence, or The Princess of Persia, Z.577
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- OISEAU LYRE.
Recording Rewind
The music played:
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Mozart
Allegretto, 3rd movement from Sonata in D, K. 576
Mitsuko Uchida (piano)
PHILIPS
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