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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Jeanette Winterson

With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Purcell Ground Bass; Music in Time: Mozart; Artist of the Week: Ensemble Wien-Berlin in Taffanel's Wind Quintet.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Purcell ground bass'. Throughout the week Sarah shares some favourite examples of Purcell ground bass, highlighting their hypnotic nature, innate expressivity and imaginative harmonies in works including Dido and Aeneas, Ode for St Cecilia's Day and Come Ye Sons of Art.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the writer Jeanette Winterson, whose semi-autobiographical 'Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit' won the Whitbread Award for a first novel in 1985. Since then her writing has been praised for its startling originality in books about humanoid robots, witches, time travel, quantum physics, and above all the search for love. Her latest book is the first in a series of 'covers' of Shakespeare plays - a modern take on The Winter's Tale. Jeanette will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Handel, Gluck, Adams and Barber, every day at 10am.

10.30am
Sarah places Music in Time. She transports us back to the Classical era to discover how a teenage Mozart absorbed the trend for Sturm und Drang, 'storm and stress', a movement that emphasised the importance of dramatic expression and extremes of emotion.

11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Ensemble Wien-Berlin. This esteemed wind quintet was formed in 1983 when five musicians, mostly principal players with the Vienna and Berlin Philharmonic orchestras, decided to join forces. The group has since built up an international reputation, performing at some of the most prestigious venues in the world and collaborating with string players and pianists to widen their repertoire. Throughout the week Sarah showcases some favourites from their catalogue of recordings, with works by composers including Mozart, Spohr and Debussy.

Taffanel
Wind Quintet
Ensemble Wien-Berlin.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Henry Purcell

    Ground in C minor

    Performer: Richard Egarr.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • 5 REASONS TO LOVE...PURCELL GROUND BASSES

    • Henry Purcell

      Here the deities approve (Welcome to all the pleasures)

      Singer: Robin Blaze. Ensemble: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Philippe Herreweghe.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Mandolin Concerto in G major S28

    Performer: Alison Stephens. Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Clara Schumann

    Liebeszauber, Op 13 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Singer: Barbara Bonney.
    • DECCA.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Pezzo Capriccioso, Op.62

    Performer: Sol Gabetta. Orchestra: Munich Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Ari Rasilainen.
    • RCA.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in B flat major, HWV 380

    Ensemble: Convivium.
    • HYPERION.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Coriolan Overture Op.62

    Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • TELDEC.
  • JEANETTE WINTERSON'S CHOICE NO.1

    • John Tavener

      The Protecting Veil: The Nativity of the Mother of God (The Protecting Veil)

      Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
      • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • JEANETTE WINTERSON'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Peter Warlock

      Sleep

      Singer: John Mark Ainsley. Performer: Roger Vignoles.
      • HYPERION.
  • Peter Warlock

    The First mercy

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Dame Sarah Connolly.
    • My True Love Hath My Heart: Connolly, Martineau.
    • Chandos.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Symphony No.25 in G minor, K.183

      Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Benjamin Britten.
      • DECCA.
  • Ernesto Lecuona

    Ante El Escorial for piano

    Performer: Clara Rodriguez.
    • MERIDIAN.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ENSEMBLE WIEN-BERLIN

    • Paul Taffanel

      Wind Quintet

      Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
      • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Zolt谩n Kod谩ly

    7. Con moto (Nine Epigrams)

    Performer: Natalie Clein. Performer: Julius Drake.
    • HYPERION.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ENSEMBLE WIEN-BERLIN

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Andante in F major K.616

      Ensemble: Ensemble Wien-Berlin.
      • CAMPANELLA.
  • Aaron Copland

    Billy the Kid Suite

    Orchestra: San Francisco Symphony. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • RCA.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Beethoven
Coriolan Overture, Op.62
Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Nikolaus Harnoncourt (conductor)
TELDEC

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  • Tue 20 Oct 2015 09:00

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