Friday - 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 Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K581.
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: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.
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.
Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Janet Hilton (clarinet)
Lindsay String Quartet.
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Music Played
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Jean‐Joseph Mouret
Suite de Symphonies - Fanfares
Performer: Hannes Läubin. Performer: Wolfgang Läubin. Performer: Bernhard Läubin. Performer: Simon Preston. Performer: Norbert Schmitt.- DG.
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Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre
Violin Sonata no.2 in D major
Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Bizzarrie Armoniche.- Ïշ.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Hear my prayer; O for the wings of a dove
Performer: Mark Williams. Singer: Rachel Bennett. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.- CHANDOS.
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Giovanni Gabrieli
Sonata pian' e forte
Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Director: Peter Bassano.- ASV.
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Gabriel Fauré
Elegie, Op.24
Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: Cécile Licad.- HYPERION.
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Alexander Borodin
Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)
Choir: Beecham Choral Society. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.- EMI.
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Sam Neill's Choice No. 1
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Witold Lutosławski
Finale (Piano Concerto)
Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: 91ȱ Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Witold Lutosławski.- DG.
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Sarah's Choice for Sam Neill
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Sergey Prokofiev
The Infernal Scene (Suite from Love for Three Oranges Op. 33bis)
Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.- BIS.
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Antonio Vivaldi
Violin Concerto in D major, RV 217
Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.- Vivaldi: Concertos - Carmignola/Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
- Deutsche Grammaphon.
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Francis Poulenc
Concerto for organ, string orchestra and timpani
Performer: Maurice Duruflé. Orchestra: Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française. Conductor: Georges Prêtre.- EMI.
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Herbert Howells
The Lord is my shepherd (Hymnus paradisi)
Singer: Heather Harper. Singer: Robert Tear. Choir: The Bach Choir. Choir: Choir of King’s College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.- Howells: Hymnus Paradisi / Finzi: Dies Natalis: Willcocks/Finzi.
- EMI.
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Artists of the week: The Lindsay Quartet
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Quintet, K.581
Performer: Janet Hilton. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.- ASV.
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Ottorino Respighi
The Birds
Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti.- Apex.
Classical Roots
Answer: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor by Borodin
The music played:
Borodin/R.Wright/G.Forrest
Stranger in Paradise
Tony Bennett (singer)
Ray Charles Singers (backing vocals)
Orchestra
Percy Faith (conductor)
RPM RECORDS/COLUMBIA
Broadcast
- Fri 18 Sep 2015 09:0091ȱ Radio 3