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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Erica Jong

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Hildegard von Bingen; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Jane Glover; Great Piano Sonatas: Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 15.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Hildegard von Bingen. A poet, scientist and philosopher, Hildegard of Bingen was one of the first known composers in the history of Western music. Having spent most of her life in a monastery, Hildegard produced a wealth of writings, illuminated manuscripts and devotional songs. As part of a season celebrating women in music, Sarah will be showcasing some of the best recordings of Hildegard's compositions, giving us five reasons to love her work nearly 900 years after it was first written.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
In the lead up to International Women's Day, Sarah's guest is the author and teacher Erica Jong whose first novel Fear of Flying has become a feminist classic. Erica will be discussing her musical roots and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at 10am. To find out more about Radio 3's International Women's Day programming follow @91热爆Radio3 and the hashtag #womensday

10.30am
Sarah's featured artist this week is the conductor Jane Glover. The Music Director of Chicago's Music of the Baroque and Director of Opera at the Royal Academy of Music, Glover blazed a trail as one of the first women to become a professional conductor. She has achieved an international reputation not just for her conducting but also for her academic achievements, and particularly for her work on Mozart. Sarah will be showcasing recordings chosen especially by Glover.

11am
This week Sarah showcases great piano sonatas.

Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.15 in D Op.29
Angela Hewitt (piano).

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Music Played

  • Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully

    Alceste - Menuet

    Director: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Le Concert des Nations.

  • Camille (1835 - 1921) Saint-Saens

    Scherzo Op.87

    Performer: Pascal Rog茅. Performer: Ami Roge.

  • 5 reasons to love...Hildegard of Bingen

    • Hildegard von Bingen

      Ave, Generosa, Tels Rit Au Main Qui Au Soir Pleure

      Performer: Garth Knox. Performer: Sylvian Lemetre.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Scenes historiques - suite no.1 Op.25 (Festivo)

    Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.
    • Jean Sibelius: Scenes Historiques I & II, Rakastava, Valse Lyrique.
    • Chandos.

  • Franz Schubert

    Gott in der Natur D.757

    Conductor: Jane Glover. Choir: 91热爆 Singers.

  • Peter Warlock

    Capriol Suite

    Conductor: Nicholas Braithwaite. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.

  • Erica Jong's Choice No. 1

    • Ludwig van [1770 -1827] Beethoven

      Fidelio - Act I Mir ist so Wunderbar

      Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Singer: Kurt Moll. Conductor: Bernard Haitink. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Singer: Pamela Coburn. Singer: Jessye Norman.

  • Erica Jong's Choice No. 2

    • Richard Danielpour

      Oratorio - Toward a Season of Peace (last movement- Apotheosis)

      Conductor: Carl St. Clair. Singer: Hila Plitmann. Orchestra: Pacific Symphony Orchestra. Choir: Pacific Chorale.

  • Gioachino Rossini

    O salutaris hostia for chorus [1857]

    Choir: Choir of New College Oxford. Director: Edward Higginbottom.
    • Bluebird - Voices from Heaven.
    • Decca.
    • 17.

  • Artist of the week: Jane Glover

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Violin Concerto in E minor Op.64

      Performer: Leland Chen. Conductor: Jane Glover. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.

  • Essential Choice

    • Ludwig van [1770 -1827] Beethoven

      Piano Sonata No.15 in D Op.28

      Performer: Angela Hewitt.

  • Phyllis Tate

    London Fields 鈥� suite: no.3 St James's Park

    Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Barry Wordsworth.
    • Lyrita.

  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    Epigram No 2 (Nine Epigrams)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • Zoltan Kodaly, Sonata for solo cello: Clein / Drake.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.

  • Samuel Barber

    Knoxville: Summer of 1915

    Singer: Sylvia McNair. Orchestra: Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Yoel Levi.

Recording Rewind

Answer:

听

Peter Warlock
Capriol Suite

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