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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Sam Neill

With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love the Film Scores of Hollywood's Emigre Composers; Artist of the Week: The Lindsay String Quartet, featured in Ravel's String Quartet.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's 茅migr茅 composers'. Hollywood provided a refuge for many European composers from the seismic events that shook Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, and a handful of them made a living writing film music for the studios there. Throughout the week Sarah explores classic scores by composers including Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.

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

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Sam Neill. Sam has starred in television series including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders and in films ranging from The Hunt for Red October and The Piano to Dead Calm and Jurassic Park. Throughout the week Sam shares an eclectic selection of his favourite classical music, with choices including Robert Schumann and Philip Glass. He also discusses the music from his films and tells Sarah why Dvorak's Ninth Symphony reminds him of his father.

10.30am
Sarah chooses music that reflects highlights from the 2015 91热爆 Proms season.

11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Lindsay String Quartet, one of the foremost quartets of the 20th century. Led by the inspirational Peter Cropper, who died earlier this year, The Lindsays became famous for their informal chamber music concerts, which introduced a new generation to the string quartet repertoire.

Ravel
String Quartet
Lindsay String Quartet.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Claude Debussy

    III. Poissons d鈥橭r (Images, Book 2)

    Performer: Walter Gieseking.
    • EMI.
  • Johann David Heinichen

    Dresden Concerto in F major, S.234

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Mikl贸s R贸zsa

    Thief of Baghdad (excerpts)

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Laudate pueri, Dominum, BuxWV 69

    Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Elin Manahan Thomas. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet. Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Scherzo in E-flat minor, Op.4

    Performer: Julius Katchen.
    • LONDON.
  • Carl Nielsen

    An Imaginary Journey to the Faroes

    Orchestra: Danish National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Carl Nielsen: Orchestral music: Danish National Symphony Orch/Dausgaard.
    • Dacapo.
    • 10.
  • Julius Fucik

    Entry of the Gladiators

    Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • WARNER APEX.
  • Richard Strauss

    Im Abendrot (Four Last Songs)

    Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • CBS MASTERWORKS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Von fremden Landern und Menschen (Kinderszenen, Op.15)

    Performer: Wilhelm Kempff.
    • DG.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kind im Einschlummern; Der Dichter spricht (Kinderszenen, Op.15)

    Performer: Wilhelm Kempff.
    • DG.
  • Michael Nyman

    A Wild and Distant Shore (The Piano)

    Orchestra: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Michael Nyman.
    • VENTURE.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Triple Concerto in E major for flute, oboe d'amore and viola, TWV 53 E1

    Performer: Stephen Preston. Performer: Clare Shanks. Performer: Monica Huggett. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • 尝鈥橭滨厂贰础鲍-尝驰搁贰.
  • Hamish MacCunn

    The Ship o' the Fiend

    Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 91热爆 Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • MacCunn: Land of the Mountain & the Flood: 91热爆SSO, Brabbins.
    • Hyperion.
    • 3.
  • Maurice Ravel

    String Quartet in F major

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • John Foulds

    Keltic Suite, Op 29

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra. Conductor: Ronald Corp.
    • J Foulds, Keltic Suite: 91热爆 Concert Orchestra/Corp.
    • Epoch.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    4 Impromptus D.935 (no.2 in A flat major)

    Performer: Imogen Cooper.
    • OTTAVO.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Fucik
Entrance of the Gladiators
Royal Scottish National Orchestra
Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
CHANDOS

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