Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Louis de Berni猫res
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite American Songs; Music in Time: Schumann: Fantasty in C, Op 17; Artists of the Week: Brodsky Quartet, featured in Delius's String Quartet.
9am
My favourite... American songs. Ranging from expressions of personal faith and childlike innocence to celebrations of American landscapes and jazz, Sarah chooses a handful of her favourite songs written by American composers including Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Louis de Berni猫res. Well known for his worldwide bestselling tale of love and war Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis's other works include the acclaimed Birds Without Wings and A Partisan's Daughter, as well as collections of poetry and short stories. His latest major novel, The Dust That Falls From Dreams, the first instalment of a family saga that opens with the end of the Victorian era, was released last year. Louis is also a keen musician and plays the flute, the guitar and, of course, the mandolin. Louis will be talking about his life and his writing, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah, every day at 10am.
10:30am
Sarah places Music in Time. The spotlight is on the Romantic period and Robert Schumann's new conception of musical structure in his Fantasy in C, Op. 17.
11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Brodsky Quartet, named after the dedicatee of Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, Adolf Brodsky. The Brodskys are known for their insatiable desire to explore and expand the string quartet repertoire. Throughout the week Sarah showcases the quartet's passion for 'all good music' as she features their interpretations of classic quartets by Dvorak, Verdi, Debussy and Britten, as well as rare masterpieces by Respighi, Panufnik and Delius.
Delius
String Quartet
Brodsky Quartet.
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Music Played
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Robert Schumann
Von fremden Landern und Menschen (Kinderszenen)
Performer: Philip Edward Fisher. Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Johann Strauss II
Tales from the Vienna Woods
Orchestra: Wiener Johann Strauss Orchester. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.- EMI.
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My favourite... American songs
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George Gershwin
Summertime (Porgy and Bess)
Singer: Kathleen Battle. Orchestra: Orchestra of St. Luke鈥檚. Conductor: Andr茅 Previn.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in C major, K.330
Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.- DG.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Folk Dance; Dance of the Five Couples; Mandolin Dance (Romeo and Juliet)
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- DECCA.
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Johannes Brahms
Scherzo in C minor, WoO 2 (F.A.E. Sonata)
Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Louis Lortie.- ONYX.
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Bruce Haynes
Brandenburg Concerto no.7 [after J.S. Bach's Cantatas]
Ensemble: Montreal Baroque. Director: Eric Milnes.- ATMA.
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Louis de Bernieres' Choice No. 1
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Sonatine in C minor for mandolin and piano
Performer: Alison Stephens. Performer: Richard Burnett.
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Louis de Bernieres' Choice No. 2
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Giovanni Paisiello
Mandolin Concerto in E flat major
Performer: Ugo Orlandi. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti. Conductor: Claudio Scimone.- ERATO.
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Music in Time: Romantic
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Robert Schumann
Fantasy in C major, Op 17 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- DG.
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Artists of the Week: The Brodsky Quartet
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Frederick Delius
String Quartet
Ensemble: Brodsky Quartet.- ASV.
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William Byrd
Miserere mei, Deus
Music Arranger: Nico Muhly. Orchestra: Aurora Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Collon.- DECCA.
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Edvard Grieg
Peer Gynt Suite No.1, Op.46
Orchestra: Prague Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.- SUPRAPHON.
Recording Rewind
The music played:
J.S. Bach
Brandenburg Concerto No.3: 1st movement
Apollo鈥檚 Fire
Jeannette Sorrell (director)
AVIE
Broadcast
- Wed 10 Feb 2016 09:0091热爆 Radio 3