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Monday - Sarah Walker with Gemma Jones

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Music from the Court of Henry VIII; Music in Time: Renaissance; Artist of the Week: Nicholas Daniel, featured in music by Mozart and Finzi.

9am
My favourite... music from the court of Henry VIII. Music was an important part of the young Henry's education and he was a gifted instrumentalist and composer. He was keen to promote music within his lavish court and patronised musicians throughout his life. Sarah heads back to the 16th century as she discovers anonymous part songs and dances, both mournful and rowdy, that were written for Henry's court, plus pieces written as presents to the king from overseas, a work from Anne Boleyn's Songbook and music by one of Henry's leading court musicians, William Cornysh.

9.30am
Take part in today's challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery music-related object.

10am
Sarah's guest this week, sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, is the acclaimed actress Gemma Jones. Gemma's film credits range from Mrs Dashwood in the Academy Award-winning Sense and Sensibility to Bridget's mother in the hit Bridget Jones's Diary. She has performed Shakespearean roles including Portia in the Merchant of Venice, Ophelia, Lady Macbeth and Queen Margaret in Kevin Spacey's 2011 stage production of Richard III, directed by Sam Mendes. Gemma is also fondly remembered for her starring role in the 91热爆's The Duchess of Duke Street, and more recently featured aongside Tom Courtenay in the ITV drama Unforgotten, and in the 91热爆 series Capital with Lesley Sharp and Toby Jones. Gemma's music choices include part of Mendelssohn's incidental music for A Midsummer Night's Dream, which reminds her of performing in Peter Brook's production of the play, Bach's St John Passion, which Gemma recently sang with her choir, and Chopin's Waltz in B minor, Op.69 No.2, a piece that her father used to play.

10.30am
Music in Time: Renaissance
Sarah places Music in Times as she delves into the Renaissance period to explore the close relationship between two popular dances of the time, the galliard and the pavan, as heard in Orlando Gibbons's Lord Salisbury's Pavan and Galliard.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the oboist Nicholas Daniel. Since winning the 91热爆's Young Musician of the Year competition in 1980, Daniel has toured the world as a virtuoso of the oboe, and has been a tireless champion of the instrument. His rich, flexible tone and brilliant technique have led him to perform not only the mainstays of the oboe repertoire, such as Vaughan Williams's Concerto and Mozart's Oboe Quartet, but also to commission many new pieces and unearth neglected works. He began directing orchestras from the oboe from the start of his career, and is now a respected conductor in his own right while, as a founder member of the Haffner Wind Ensemble and the Britten Oboe Quartet, he continues to pursue his love of chamber music. Sarah reflects the various facets of Daniel's career in her musical choices at 11am each day.

Mozart
Oboe Quartet in F major, K370
Nicholas Daniel (oboe)
The Lindsays

Finzi
Eclogue
Piers Lane (piano)
English Chamber Orchestra
Nicholas Daniel (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Etude in G flat major, Op.25 No.9

    Performer: Maurizio Pollini.
    • DG.
  • Edward German

    Nell Gwyn (Overture)

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Wilson.
    • AVIE.
  • MY FAVOURITE...music from the court of Henry VIII

    • anon.

      Four consort pieces

      Composer: King Henry VIII of England. Ensemble: Musica Antiqua of London.
      • AMON RA.
    • Claude Gervaise

      Pavane et Galliarde d鈥橝ngleterre

      Ensemble: Musica Antiqua of London.
      • AMON RA.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in F major, Hob.XVI:23

    Performer: Denis Kozhukhin.
    • ONYX.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Romance in F major, Op.11

    Performer: Jan Mr谩膷ek. Orchestra: Czech National Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.
    • ONYX.
  • Trad.

    The last rose of summer

    Singer: Rachel Ann Morgan. Performer: Rachel Ann Morgan.
    • ETCETERA.
  • Trad.

    Greensleeves

    Performer: Rachel Ann Morgan. Singer: Rachel Ann Morgan.
    • ETCETERA.
  • John Adams

    Short Ride in a Fast Machine

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Marin Alsop.
    • Adams: The Shaker Loops/The Wound Dresser: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Alsop.
    • Naxos.
    • 1.
  • Gemma Jones' Choice No.1

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Waltz in B minor, Op.69 No.2

      Performer: Garrick Ohlsson.
      • HYPERION.
  • Gemma Jones' Choice No.2

    • Edvard Grieg

      In the Hall of the Mountain King (Peer Gynt - suite no.1 Op.46)

      Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
      • DG.
  • Gemma Jones' Choice No.3

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      St John Passion, BWV245: 鈥楻uht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine鈥

      Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Orchestra: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
      • SDG.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Lascia la spina (Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno)

    Singer: Lucy Crowe. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Harry Bicket.
    • Handel in Italy: Lucy Crowe/The English Concert/Bicket.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
    • 9.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • Orlando Gibbons

      Lord of Salisbury Pavan; Lord of Salisbury Galliard

      Performer: Sophie Yates.
      • CHANDOS.
  • Herbert Howells

    Three Dances for violin and orchestra, Op.7

    Performer: Malcolm Stewart. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • Hyperion.
  • Gy枚rgy Ligeti

    Old Hungarian Ballroom Dances

    Ensemble: Asko Ensemble. Ensemble: Schoenberg Ensemble. Conductor: Reinbert de Leeuw.
    • WARNER.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: NICHOLAS DANIEL

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Oboe Quartet in F major, K 370

      Performer: Nicholas Daniel. Performer: Peter Cropper. Performer: Ronald Birks. Performer: Robin Ireland. Performer: Bernard Gregor-Smith. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
      • Mozart: Oboe Quartet/Horn Quintet: The Lindsays.
      • ASV.
      • 5.
    • Gerald Finzi

      Eclogue

      Performer: Piers Lane. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Nicholas Daniel.
      • DECCA.
  • Wilhelm Stenhammar

    Excelsior! Op.13

    Orchestra: Antwerp Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Lindberg.
    • BIS.
  • Alessandro Marcello

    Trumpet Concerto in D minor

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Ensemble: I Musici.
    • Baroque Trumpet Concertos.
    • Philips.
    • 16.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

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Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra鈥
Marin Alsop (conductor)鈥
NAXOS

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