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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Debbie Horsfield

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Scarlatti Sonatas; Music in Time: Tournai Mass; Artists of the Week: Collegium Musicum 90 featured playing Arne's Overtures Nos 1 and 5.

9am
My favourite... Scarlatti sonatas. This week Sarah shares her favourite examples of Domenico Scarlatti's quixotic pieces for keyboard. Written principally for the entertainment of the Portuguese and Spanish royal families, Scarlatti deploys myriad virtuosic techniques to create sonatas that can be stately, scampering or thoughtful. Sarah showcases sonatas displaying these qualities, and more, in performances by pianists and harpsichordists including Yevgeny Sudbin and Andreas Staier.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery musical person.

10am
Sarah's guest is the theatre and television writer Debbie Horsfield. Debbie recently adapted Winston Graham's Poldark for 91热爆 One. The hit adaptation, starring Aidan Turner as Ross Poldark, won the Radio Times Audience Award at this year's BAFTAs, and a third series has just been commissioned. Debbie started her career working for Trevor Nunn at the Royal Shakespeare Company, going on to become the resident writer at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her other television writing credits include The Riff Raff Element and Cutting It, which both earned her BAFTA Best Drama Series award nominations, as well as True Dare Kiss and All The Small Things. Debbie talks about her writing, and about heading to the Cornish cliffs to research Poldark, and shares a selection of her favourite classical music, including works by Bizet and Brahms, as well as Anne Dudley's soundtrack to Poldark.

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.

Music in Time: Medieval
Sarah places Music in Time, heading back to the Medieval period and the 14th-century Tournai Mass, an example of how diverse the musical characters of individual movements of a mass could be, at a time when the idea of one unified style was yet to be established.

11am
Sarah's artists of the week are Collegium Musicum 90. One of the UK's leading baroque orchestras, Collegium Musicum 90 was founded by the violinist, and former leader of the English Concert, Simon Standage, and the late conductor Richard Hickox, taking its name from the musical ensembles and societies prevalent in the 17th and 18th centuries. The orchestra has recorded a wide variety of music from the baroque and early classical period, appearing in Europe and British music festivals, including the 91热爆 Proms. Sarah showcases a selection of their recordings including a Mass by Haydn, concertos by Vivaldi and Albinoni, and overtures and suites by Thomas Arne and Telemann.

Arne
Overture No.1 in E minor;
Overture No.5 in D major
Collegium Musicum 90
Simon Standage (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suite in A minor for flute, violin and continuo: II. Vivace - Largo

    Performer: Rachel Brown. Performer: Simon Standage. Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Robert Schumann

    Konzertst眉ck for four horns and orchestra, Op 86

    Performer: Dale Clevenger. Performer: Richard Oldberg. Performer: Thomas Howell. Performer: Norman Schweikert. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • Decca Eloquence.
  • MY FAVOURITE...SCARLATTI SONATAS

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Keyboard Sonata in C major, Kk.132

      Performer: Andreas Staier.
      • DEUTSCHE HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    The Bee's Wedding (Songs without words - bk.6 Op.67)

    Orchestrator: Don Banks. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.
    • Vocalion.
  • Daniel Fran莽ois Esprit Auber

    Fra Diavolo: overture

    Orchestra: Suisse Romande Orchestra. Conductor: Ernest Ansermet.
    • DECCA ELOQUENCE.
  • Traditional Bulgarian

    Bulgar Cigany Horo

    Music Arranger: K谩lm谩n Balogh. Performer: K谩lm谩n Balogh. Ensemble: Meta Folk Band.
    • ARC MUSIC.
  • Thomas Arne

    Where the bee sucks (The Tempest)

    Singer: Janet Baker. Performer: Douglas Whittaker. Performer: Martin Isepp. Performer: Ambrose Gauntlett.
    • TESTAMENT.
  • DEBBIE HORSFIELD'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Johannes Brahms

      Rhapsody in G minor, Op.79 No.2

      Performer: Ragna Schirmer.
      • BERLIN CLASSICS.
  • DEBBIE HORSFIELD'S CHOICE NO.2

    • Gabriel Faur茅

      Requiem: Agnus Dei

      Choir: Ambrosian Singers. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Michel Legrand.
      • TELDEC.
  • DEBBIE HORSFIELD'S CHOICE NO.3

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      Requiem: Ingemisco

      Singer: Jussi Bj枚rling. Orchestra: Stockholm Radio Orchestra. Conductor: Nils Grevillius.
      • EMI.
  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (Cavalleria rusticana)

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
    • EMI Classics.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: Medieval

    • anon.

      Tournai Mass: Kyrie & Gloria

      Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
      • ECM.
  • anon.

    Tournai Mass: Agnus Dei

    Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.
    • ECM.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata No.1 in E flat major, BWV525

    Performer: Peter Hurford.
    • Decca.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM 90

    • Thomas Arne

      Overture No.1 in E minor

      Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
      • CHANDOS.
  • Thomas Arne

    Overture No 5 in D major

    Ensemble: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
    • Arne: Overtures: Collegium Musicum 90/Standage.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 16.
  • Manuel Infante

    Andalusian Dances

    Ensemble: Katia Lab猫que.
    • Espagna.
    • Philips.
    • 12.
  • Edward Elgar

    Sea Pictures, Op.37

    Singer: Janet Baker. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • Elgar: Cello Concerto/Sea Pictures: Du Pre/Baker/LSO/Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
    • 5.

Mystery Person

Answer: Dame Janet Baker (mezzo-soprano)

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