Monday - Sarah Walker with Gyles Brandreth
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Viola Pieces; Record Review Recommendation: Mozart: Requiem; Artist of the Week: Alfred Brendel in Schubert's Piano Sonata in C minor.
9am
My favourite... viola pieces. Viola player Cecil Aronowitz, who co-founded the Melos Ensemble and was a preferred extra with the Amadeus Quartet, was born one hundred years ago this week. To celebrate his anniversary Sarah chooses a selection of her favourite short pieces for Aronowitz's somewhat overlooked, even mocked, instrument, including works by Rebecca Clarke, Debussy, Strauss and Bach.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Sarah's guest is Gyles Brandreth, the once MP and Government whip whose way with words makes him much in demand on television and radio, with appearances on everything from Countdown to Just a Minute. Gyles reminisces about meeting Yehudi Menuhin, and muses on the secrets of happiness and having fun, while choosing music by Liszt, Verdi, Janacek and Handel, every day at 10am.
10:30
Sarah features excerpts from the Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's Record Review
Mozart
Requiem
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the world renowned pianist Alfred Brendel whose performances of Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Beethoven and Liszt set the benchmark for interpretations of intelligence and authority. Sarah's outings of his top recordings complement Friday's 91热爆 4 documentary Perfect Pianists, a journey through 60 years of 91热爆 archive that showcases some the greatest names in the history of the piano - including Brendel.
Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor D.958
Alfred Brendel (piano).
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Music Played
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Bagatelle in A minor 'F眉r Elise'
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- PHILIPS.
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Franz Schubert
Overture in the Italian Style, D 591
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.- WARNER.
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MY FAVOURITE...VIOLA PIECES
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Max Reger
Suite for Viola in D major, Op.131d No.2
Performer: Tabea Zimmermann.- MYRIOS CLASSICS.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Egmont (Entr'acte Larghetto)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: George Szell.- Decca.
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Thomas Arne
Overture No.6 in B flat major
Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.- L'OISEAU LYRE.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Symphonic Dances, Op 45 (1st mvt)
Performer: Martha Argerich. Performer: Nicolas Economou.- DG.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in C major, K.373
Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir James MacMillan.- DG.
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GYLES BRANDRETH'S CHOICE NO.1
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Clement Cotterill Scholefield
The day thou gavest, Lord, is ended
Composer: John Scott. Performer: Christopher Dearnley. Choir: St Paul's Cathedral Choir. Conductor: John Scott.- HELIOS.
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GYLES BRANDRETH'S CHOICE NO.2
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Arthur Sullivan
When I go out of door (Patience)
Singer: George Baker. Singer: John Cameron. Choir: Glyndebourne Chorus. Orchestra: Pro Arte Orchestra. Conductor: Malcolm Sargent.- EMI.
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GYLES BRANDRETH'S CHOICE NO.3
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Felix Mendelssohn
Nocturne and Wedding March (Incidental Music for A Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream)
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Maag.- DECCA.
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THE BUILDING A LIBRARY RECOMMENDATION FROM LAST SATURDAY'S RECORD REVIEW
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Agnus Dei; Communio; Misericordias Domini; Introitus; Kyrie Eleison (Requiem)
Singer: Joanne Lunn. Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.- LINN.
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Gavin Bryars
Agnus Dei (Cadman Requiem)
Choir: The Hilliard Ensemble. Ensemble: Fretwork.- Point Music.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: ALFRED BRENDEL
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Franz Schubert
Piano Sonata in C minor, D 958
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- PHILIPS.
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Sergey Prokofiev
Lieutenent Kije - Symphonic Suite Op.60
Orchestra: The Cleveland Orchestra. Conductor: George Szell.- Sony.
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Gioachino Rossini
Ah come nascondere (La donna del lago)
Singer: Juan Diego Fl贸rez. Orchestra: Orchestra of Santa Cecilia. Conductor: Roberto Abbado.- DECCA CLASSICS.
Recording Rewind
The music played:
Mozart
Rondo for violin and orchestra in C major, K.373聽
Nicola Benedetti (violin)
The Academy of St. Martin-in-the-Fields
James MacMillan (conductor)
DECCA
Broadcast
- Mon 29 Feb 2016 09:0091热爆 Radio 3