Friday - Sarah Walker with Ken Loach
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite 18th-Century Overtures; Music in Time: Medieval; Artists of the Week: Netherlands Chamber Choir, featured in Palestrina and Part.
9am
My favourite... 18th century overtures. Sarah shares a selection of her favourite overtures. These were designed to settle a restive audience and prepare them for an opera, or to open concerts or grand celebrations. Sarah's featured works include operatic overtures by Mozart and his rival Antonio Salieri, as well as instrumental pieces by Josef Myslivecek and by Handel - music that accompanied the firework display in London's Green Park in 1749 marking the end of the War of Austrian Succession.
9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: trace the classical theme behind a well-known song.
10am
Sarah's guest is the celebrated film director Ken Loach. Ken's films include Cathy Come 91热爆, whose powerful message helped to change the law on homelessness when it was first broadcast in 1966, as well as Kes, My Name is Joe and Sweet Sixteen. His work across television and film has won him awards including the BAFTA Fellowship and two Palme d'Ors for his 2006 film The Wind That Shakes The Barley, and for his most recent film, I, Daniel Blake, which tackles unemployment and poverty in Britain today. Ken talks about his directing career and his favourite pieces of classical music throughout the week, including music by Canteloube, Brahms and Haydn, who Ken insists is the best composer to get dressed to in the morning.
10.30am
Power of Three - the next episode in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the 91热爆 Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.
Followed by
Music in Time: Medieval
Sarah places Music in Time with a performance of the anonymous song 'Novus miles sequitur', written in 1173 to help rouse an attempted rebellion of barons led by Robert de Beaumont, Earl of Leicester, against King Henry II.
11am
Sarah's Artists of the Week are the Netherlands Chamber Choir. Founded in 1937, the Nederlands Kamerkoor has developed a worldwide reputation for its innovative commissions and collaborations, which include world premieres of works by John Tavener, James MacMillan and Harrison Birtwistle. The choir regularly performs with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, the Orchestra of the 18th Century under Frans Bruggen and The Sch枚nberg Ensemble, and have released a steady stream of award winning recordings. Sarah dips into the choir's archive throughout the week, sharing interpretations of music by the Dutch composer Sweelinck, as well as Rossini, Palestrina and Poulenc, a composer who wrote music especially for the choir.
Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli - Credo
P盲rt - I am the True Vine
Palstrina: Missa Papae Marcelli - Sanctus/Benedictus
Netherlands Chamber Choir
Risto Joost (conductor).
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Fanny Mendelssohn
Six Melodies (Allegretto)
Performer: B茅atrice Rauchs.- BIS.
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MY FAVOURITE...18th century overtures
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George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks HWV.351
Orchestra: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- ARCHIV.
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Eugene Louis-Marie Jancourt
Nocturne
Performer: Karen Geoghegan. Performer: Philip Fisher.- CHANDOS.
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Johann Strauss II
Annen-Polka Op.117
Performer: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Performer: Eugene Ormandy.- SONY.
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Landi
Alla guerra d'amor
Performer: Johnatte Zomer. Performer: Stephan Van Dyck.- ALPHA.
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Georges Bizet
La Patrie: Overture
Orchestra: Detroit Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paul Paray.- Mercury Living Presence.
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John Tavener
The Protecting Veil: The Nativity of the Mother of God (The Protecting Veil)
Performer: Yo鈥怸o Ma. Orchestra: Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Zinman.- SONY CLASSICAL.
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KEN LOACH'S CHOICE NO.1
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Felix Mendelssohn
Piano Concerto No.1: III. Presto
Performer: Martin Helmchen. Orchestra: Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- PENTATONE.
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Sarah's choice for Ken Loach
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Percy Grainger
Colonial Song
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Timothy Reynish.- CHANDOS.
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Arnold Schoenberg
Presto in C major
Ensemble: Arditti Quartet.- MONTAIGNE.
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Music in Time: Medieval
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Novus miles sequitur
Choir: Gothic Voices. Conductor: Christopher Page.- HYPERION.
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Ottorino Respighi
Pines of Rome
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.- BELART.
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ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Netherlands Chamber Choir
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Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina
Missa Papae Marcelli: Credo
Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Conductor: Risto Joost.- GLOBE.
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Robert Schumann
Violin Concerto in D minor (2nd mvt - with a coda by Benjamin Britten)
Performer: Joshua Bell. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Director: Joshua Bell.- SONY.
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Benjamin Britten
The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Steuart Bedford. -
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Suite in G minor, TWV 55:g1, 'La Musette'
Ensemble: Berlin Academy for Early Music.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
Imperfect Harmony
The music played:
Tavener
The Protecting Veil: opening
Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor)
SONY
Dvorak
鈥楢merican鈥� Quartet: opening
Hagen Quartet
DG
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