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Sound Frontiers: Tuesday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore

Live from London's Southbank Centre. My Favourite Contemporary Choral Music; Music in Time: Leonin: Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos; Artist of the Week: Andrew Manze.

9am
My favourite... contemporary choral music. Sarah shares a selection of contemporary choral works that are ear catching, innovative and often very beautiful. Sarah has long had a soft spot for this repertoire and throughout the week she seeks out some of her favourite pieces by composers including Gabriel Jackson, Judith Weir, Eriks E拧envalds and Antony Pitts. You'll be signing up to your local choir in no time.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.

10am
Sarah's guest is the writer and comedian John Finnemore. John is best known for writing and starring in the multi-award winning Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure, and for his radio sketch show John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. He has written for other comedy shows including That Mitchell and Webb Look, Dead Ringers, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth, and has also appeared as a panelist on shows including Just a Minute and The News Quiz. John will be talking music, comedy and wordplay every day at 10am, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical works, including Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen and Mozart's Bassoon Concerto. And on Friday, as part of Radio 3's 70th anniversary celebrations, John and friends will be performing a specially written musical sketch show live in the Radio 3 pop-up studio at Southbank Centre in London.

10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Sarah places Music in Time as she heads back to 12th-century Paris to explore organum - early polyphony. Leonin was one of the first composers to use this groundbreaking technique, moving away from the established single line of plainchant to writing for many voices. The result, as demonstrated in his 'Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos' is a sparse beauty that is just as hypnotic 900 years later.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Andrew Manze, who has been called "the first modern superstar of the baroque violin". Sarah explores some of Manze's finest recordings of works by composers including Biber and J.S. Bach, featuring the two groups with which he's most closely associated, the Academy of Ancient Music and The English Concert. Beyond the baroque, Sarah will also share some of Manze's work as a conductor, including his recent collaboration with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and his recording of the complete cycle of symphonies by Vaughan Williams.

Mozart
Violin Concerto in A major, K.219
Andrew Manze (violin/director)
The English Concert.

3 hours

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel

    Violin Sonata No.9 in F major: IV. Gigue

    Performer: Jaap ter Linden. Performer: Richard Egarr. Performer: Andrew Manze.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Benvenuto Cellini (Overture)

    Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • TELARC.
  • E虅riks Es虒envalds

    A drop in the ocean

    Choir: Polyphony. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • 贬驰笔贰搁滨翱狈鈥.
  • Peteris Vasks

    Music for a summer evening

    Performer: Marcel Worms.
    • ZEFIR.
  • Louis Moreau Gottschalk

    Le Banjo 'Fantaisie grotesque, an American sketch'

    Performer: Philip Martin.
    • HYPERION.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet No.4 in C major, K.157

    Ensemble: Hagen Quartett.
    • DG.
  • George Gershwin

    Overture to 'Oh Kay'

    Orchestra: Buffalo Philharmonic. Conductor: Michael Tilson Thomas.
    • SONY.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Symphonie fantastique: V. Songe d'une nuit du Sabbat

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    The Cunning Little Vixen: Finale

    Singer: Dalibor Jedli膷ka. Singer: Peter Saray. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • DECCA.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Apres un reve, Op. 7 No. 1

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Performer: Alexei Grynyuk.
    • Nicola Benedetti: Fantasie.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 8.
  • 尝茅辞苍颈苍

    Alleluya. Non vos relinquam orphanos

    Choir: Red Byrd. Singer: John Potter. Singer: Richard Wistreich. Ensemble: Cappella Amsterdam.
    • HELIOS.
  • Franz Schubert

    Overture in the Italian Style, D 591

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • WARNER.
  • Leos Jan谩膷ek

    On the Overgrown Path, Series 1: excerpt

    Performer: Leif Ove Andsnes.
    • VIRGIN.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto in A major, K.219

    Performer: Andrew Manze. Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Andrew Manze.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Granville Bantock

    Celtic Symphony

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.
    • HYPERION.

Mapping the Music

Answer: St Louis, Missouri

The music played:

W.C. Handy
St Louis Blues
The Band of the Royal Military School of Music
Lt. Col. C.J. Ross (conductor)
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