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Young Artists Day - Sarah Walker with Folu Odimayo

With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love Youth Orchestras; Musical challenge; Artist of the Week: Benjamin Grosvenor; Essential Choice: Scriabin: Prometheus: The Poem of Fire.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... youth orchestras'. Especially for the week of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah explores recordings by top youth orchestras, including the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain, Gustav Mahler Jugendorchester and Junge Deutsche Philharmonie, with music by Bart贸k, Debussy, Ad猫s and Ginastera.

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

10am
As part of Radio 3's Young Artists Day, Sarah's guest is the up-and-coming dancer and choreographer Folu Odimayo. Folu will talk about his career and choose his favourite classical music.

10.30am
To mark Radio 3's Young Artists Day Sarah is featuring the pianist Benjamin Grosvenor. At just 22 years old, Grosvenor is a Radio 3 New Generation Artist, the youngest artist ever to sign to Decca Records and is the youngest soloist to have performed at the first night of the Proms. Throughout the week Sarah showcases Grosvenor's recordings of works by composers including Bach, Ravel, Chopin, Saint-Sa毛ns and Gershwin.

11am
Today's Essential Choice is taken from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
Scriabin
Prometheus: The Poem of Fire, Op 60

91热爆 Radio 3's Young Artists Day.
Radio 3 salutes some of the new and upcoming talent active in the arts today under the age of 25. As well as hearing from young choreographers, composers, musicians and writers throughout the day, Radio 3 will be playing music of great composers in their youthful periods, alongside recordings of seminal performers made when they were young.

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Mon 4 May 2015 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Morton Gould

    Boogie Woogie Etude

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Powder Her Face (Overture)

    Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Daniel.
    • EMI.

  • Mozart

    Symphony no.9 in C major K.73

    Ensemble: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    10 Mazurkas, Op 3; Nos 6 in C sharp minor; 4 in E; 9 in G sharp minor

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Overture to A Midsummer Night's Dream

    Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.

  • Alexander Scriabin

    Waltz in A flat, Op 38

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor, piano.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Rite of Spring (Augurs of Spring; Dances of the Young Girls; Ritual of Abduction)

    Orchestra: Orchestra of Mariinsky Theatre. Conductor: Valery Gergiev.
    • DECCA.

  • Joris Vanvinckenroye

    S20

    • HOME RECORDS.

  • Simon Chamberlain

    Sonata in C Op.2 No.3 - Adagio

    • Silva Screen.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No 4 in D, BWV 828

    Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor.
    • DECCA.

  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Introduction and Rondo Capriccioso in A minor, op.28

    Performer: Sergei Nakariakov. Music Arranger: Mikhail Nakariakov. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • TELDEC.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Octet in E flat, op.103

    Ensemble: Melos Ensemble.
    • EMI.

Recording Rewind

The answer:

Mendelssohn
Octet: 1st movement

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    91热爆 Radio 3

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