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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite British String Music; Music in Time: Beethoven: Symphony No 3 (excerpt); Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus in Ravel: Daphnis and Chloe (excerpts).

9am
My favourite... British string music. We'll hear a mixture of favourites including Elgar's Serenade for Strings and the Fantasia on Greensleeves by Vaughan Williams, along with lesser-known works by Charles Avison and Frederick Delius.

9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you work out what they are?

10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for the week of 91Èȱ¬ Music Day, is the musician, composer and broadcaster Guy Garvey. He's the front man of rock band Elbow, who have released six studio albums, won the Mercury Music Prize, headlined at Glastonbury and performed a specially written song for the closing of the 2012 Olympics in London. Guy also released a solo album last year, which reached the top three of the album charts. He's won Ivor Novello Awards for songwriting and presents his own programme 'The Finest Hour' on 91Èȱ¬ 6 Music. Every day at 10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Françaix and Mendelssohn.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the first of the 91Èȱ¬4 series Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. Today Sarah is on the cusp of the Classical and Romantic periods for a performance of Beethoven's magnificent Third Symphony, 'Eroica', with its unprecedented range of emotion and style within one symphonic work.

11.30am
In the week of 91Èȱ¬ Music Day, a UK-wide celebration of everything we love about music, Sarah features choral societies from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales including the Huddersfield Choral Society, the Edinburgh Festival Chorus, Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus and the Treorchy Male Voice Choir.

Ravel
Daphnis et Chloé - Parts II & III
Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus
Ulster Orchestra
Yan Pascal Tortelier (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Maurice Duruflé

    Notre Pere

    Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Rag-Mazurka (Les biches)

    Orchestra: 91Èȱ¬ National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Thierry Fischer.
    • Rite of Spring.
    • Signum.
    • 20.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Keyboard Suite in F major, HWV 427

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • HYPERION.
  • MY FAVOURITE...BRITISH STRING MUSIC

    • Frederick Delius

      2 Aquarelles

      Music Arranger: Eric Fenby. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Julian Lloyd Webber.
      • Naxos.
  • Sergey Taneyev

    12 Choruses Op.27; No 7, Suddenly a music sounded from eternity

    Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Tõnu Kaljuste.
    • GLOBE.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Belshazzar's Feast, Op 51 (No 4a, 'Dance of Life')

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo Vänskä.
    • Bis.
  • Johann Nepomuk Hummel

    Overture in D major, S 148

    Orchestra: London Mozart Players. Conductor: Howard Shelley.
    • Hummel: Mandolin Concerto etc..
    • Chandos.
    • 1.
  • Henry Purcell

    The Married Beau Suite

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Singer: Joy Roberts. Director: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'OISEAU LYRE.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Benedictus (Mass in G)

    Choir: Westminster Cathedral Choir. Conductor: James O’Donnell.
    • HYPERION.
  • GUY GARVEY'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Jean Françaix

      II. Lent (Concertino for piano and orchestra)

      Performer: Claude François. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Doráti.
      • MERCURY.
  • GUY GARVEY'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      The Lark Ascending

      Performer: Hugh Bean. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.
      • EMI.
  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Prelude in A major, Op 87 No 7

    Performer: Tatiana Nikolayeva.
    • Shostakovich: 24 Preludes and Fugues Op. 87: Tatiana Nicolayeva.
    • Hyperion.
    • 13.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: ROMANTIC

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No.3 in E flat major, 'Eroica'

      Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christian Thielemann.
      • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Estienne du Tertre

    Premiere Suytte de Bransles d'Ecosse

    Ensemble: Flautadors.
    • Music for the Queen of Scots.
    • DEUX-ELLES.
    • 005.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: BRITISH CHORAL SOCIETIES

    • Ravel

      Daphnis et Chloe – Parts II & III

      Choir: Belfast Philharmonic Society Chorus. Choir: The Renaissance Singers. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Yan Pascal Tortelier.

Imperfect Harmony

The music played:

Poulenc
Sanctus (Mass in G)
Tenebrae
Nigel Short (conductor)
SIGNUM
Ìý
Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis
91Èȱ¬ Symphony Orchestra
Andrew Davis (conductor)
WARNER

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