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Thursday - 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 Debussy's String Quartet.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's émigré 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: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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 91ȱ 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.

Debussy
String Quartet
Lindsay String Quartet.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Dimitri Tiomkin

    The Four Poster (Overture)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Kaufman.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Fantasie No 1 in G minor for clarinet and string quartet

    Performer: Dame Thea King. Ensemble: Britten Quartet.
    • HELIOS.
  • Dimitri Tiomkin

    Giant - suite

    Choir: London Voices. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Kaufman.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Johann Strauss II

    Town and Country Op.322

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.
    • SONY.
  • Hubert Parry

    Lord, let me know mine end (Songs of Farewell)

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.
  • Arvo ä

    Cantus in memoriam Benjamin Britten

    Performer: Juho Vartiainen. Orchestra: Tapiola Sinfonietta. Conductor: Jean‐Jacques Kantorow.
    • BIS.
  • Trad.

    The Foggy Foggy Dew

    Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Robert Tear. Performer: Philip Ledger.
    • The Foggy, Foggy Dew.
    • EMI.
    • 1.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Finale (Symphony No.9 in E minor, Op.95)

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • LSO LIVE.
  • Brian Wilson

    Don’t Talk - Put your head of my shoulder

    Composer: Tony Asher. Performer: Mats Schubert. Performer: Svante Henryson. Performer: Johan Lindström. Performer: Magnus Persson. Music Arranger: Elvis Costello. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter.
    • DG.
  • Traditional

    The bonnie banks of Loch Lomond

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Conductor: Rory MacDonald. Orchestra: 91ȱ Scottish Symphony Orchestra.
    • DECCA.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Italian Concerto in F major, BWV.971

    Performer: Sir András Schiff.
    • DECCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto No 4 in E flat major, K 495

    Performer: David Pyatt. Conductor: Neville Marriner. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • WARNER APEX.
  • Claude Debussy

    String Quartet in G minor

    Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
    • ASV.
  • Gustav Holst

    Hymn to the Dawn (Choral Hymns from the Rig Veda, Op.23`3)

    Choir: Holst Singers. Performer: Thelma Owen. Conductor: Hilary Davan Wetton.
    • Britten: Choral Dances, Bliss Pastoral, Holst Rig Veda: Holst Singers & Orch/Dav.
    • Helios.
    • 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Symphony No 8 in B minor, D 759, 'Unfinished'

    Orchestra: Swedish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Dausgaard.
    • Schubert: Symphonies Nos 8 & 9, Swedish Chamber Orchestra, Thomas Dausgaard.
    • BIS.
    • 1.
  • Traditional

    Maria chuchena

    Conductor: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Tembembe Ensamble Continuo. Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI.
    • El Nuevo Mundo: Folías Criollas.
    • Alia Vox.
    • 15.

By Association

Answer: Arvo ä and Benjamin Britten

The music played:

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