Friday - Sarah Walker with Guy Garvey
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite British String Music; Music in Time: Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No 3; Wagner: Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannhauser); 91热爆 Singers live in Bristol.
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 music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery object.
10am
Sarah's special guest, especially for 91热爆 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 91热爆 6 Music. Every day at 10am Guy will be choosing a selection of his favourite classical music including pieces by Puccini, Fran莽aix and Mendelssohn.
10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah features a piece from the first of the 91热爆4 series Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th century. She showcases the flamboyant musical style of superstar pianist-composer Liszt, as demonstrated in his Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B flat, S244.
11am
Especially for 91热爆 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.
Wagner
Pilgrims' Chorus (Tannh盲user)
John Hughes
Calon L芒n
Treorchy Male Voice Choir
John Cynan Jones (organ)
11.20am
Live music for 91热爆 Music Day as Sarah hands over to Katie Derham to introduce a live performance by The 91热爆 Singers from a canteen in Bristol celebrating the 75th anniversary of "Workers' Playtime" on the 91热爆 91热爆 Service.
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Bob Chilcott
Green Rain (The Angry Planet, Part 2)
Choir: 91热爆 Singers. Choir: Finchley Childrens Music Group. Choir: Bach Choir. Choir: London Youth Choir. Choir: The Young Sisters. Conductor: David Hill.- SIGNUM.
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My favourite... British String Music
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Gustav Holst
St Paul's Suite: Jig
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.- CHANDOS.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Kyrie, Gott heiliger Geist, BWV671 (chorale prelude)
Ensemble: Fretwork.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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George Frideric Handel
'Or let the merry bells ring round' (L鈥橝llegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato)
Singer: Gillian Webster. Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- SIGNUM.
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York Bowen
3 Serious dances Op.51 (no.2)
Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.- Stephen Hough's English Piano Album.
- Hyperion.
- 14.
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John Field
Nocturne no.5 in B flat major
Performer: Benjamin Frith.- NAXOS.
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Traditional Turkish
Makam Rast 'Murass'a' usul Duyek
Performer: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Ensemble Instrumental.- Orient Occident (1000 - 1600).
- AliaVox.
- 1.
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Charles Villiers Stanford
Irish Rhapsody No 3 in D major
Performer: Raphael Wallfisch. Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- CHANDOS.
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Anonymous
Marv Pontkalleg
Performer: Alan Stivell.- PHILIPS.
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Guy Garvey's Choice
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Geoffrey Burgon
Nunc Dimittis
Singer: Paul Miles-Kingston. Performer: Crispian Steele鈥怭erkins. Performer: Martin Neary.- EMI.
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Sarah Walker's Choice for Guy Garvey
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Gabriel Faur茅
Impromptu, Op 86
Performer: Catrin Finch.- Carnival de Venise.
- SAIN.
- 7.
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Johann Joseph Fux
Overture in D minor (Overture)
Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Lars Ulrik Mortensen.- Baroque Suites.
- CLASSICAL COMMUNICATIONS.
- 11.
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Music in Time: Romantic
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Franz Liszt
Hungarian Rhapsody No.3 in B flat, S.244
Performer: Nelson Freire.- DECCA.
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Alexander Glazunov
From Darkness to Light, Op 53
Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Tadaaki Otaka.- BIS.
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Artist of the Week: British Choral Societies
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Richard Wagner
Pilgrims' Chorus
Performer: Treorchy Male Choir.- EMI.
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John Hughes
Calon Lan
Performer: John Cynan Jones. Choir: Treorchy Male Voice Choir.- EMI.
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Alun Hoddinott
Welsh Dances Suite No 1, Op 15
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Charles Groves.- Lyrita.
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George Gershwin
Prelude no.1
Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra.- EMI.
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Billy Joel
Lullaby (Goodnight My Angel)
Composer: Billy Joel. -
Tea for Two
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Jean Fran莽aix
Theme and variations
Performer: Julian Bliss. Performer: Bradley Moore.- SIGNUM.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dances No 1 in G minor and No 3 in F major
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Brahms: The Symphonies.
- Decca.
- 25-26.
Mystery Object
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- Fri 3 Jun 2016 09:0091热爆 Radio 3