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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Debbie Horsfield

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Scarlatti Sonatas; Music in Time: Berlioz: Romeo et Juliette; Artist of the Week: Collegium Musicum 90, playing Vivaldi's Concerto in G, RV151.

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: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

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: Romantic
Sarah places Music in Time, heading back to Paris in the late 1830s to discover the pioneering rehearsal practices of Berlioz as he prepared for the premiere of his large-scale choral symphony Rom茅o et Juliette.

11.15am
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.

Vivaldi
Concerto in G major, 'alla rustica', RV.151
Collegium Musicum 90
Simon Standage (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    12 Pieces, Op.40: No.1 Etude

    Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • REGIS.
  • My Favourite...Scarlatti Sonatas

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Sonata in G major Kk.427

      Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
      • BIS.
  • Edward Elgar

    Froissart, Op.19

    Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: John Barbirolli.
    • EMI.
  • George Enescu

    Concert Piece for viola and piano

    Performer: Maxim Rysanov. Performer: Evelyn Chang.
    • AVIE.
  • Charles Gounod

    Ainsi que la brise legere - waltz (Faust)

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.
    • TESTAMENT.
  • Joseph Bodin de Boismortier

    4 Ballets de village Op.52 (No.1)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Meridiana.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Arnold Schoenberg

    Cabaret Songs: Mahnung

    Singer: Jessye Norman. Performer: James Levine.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Geistliches Wiegenlied, Op 91 No 2

    Performer: Wolfram Christ. Performer: Daniel Barenboim. Singer: Jessye Norman.
    • Lieder (soprano: Jessye Norman, piano: Daniel Barenboim).
    • DG.
    • 20.
  • Debbie Horsfield's Choice

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Violin Concerto in D major, Op.35: I. Allegro moderato

      Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.
      • EMI.
  • Percy Grainger

    Spoon River

    Performer: Penelope Thwaites. Performer: John Lavender.
    • Grainger: Piano Music for Four Hands Vol.1: Thwaites/Lavender.
    • Pavillion.
    • 5.
  • Hector Berlioz

    Romeo et Juliette, Op.17: Juliet's Funeral Cortege & Romeo at the Capulet tomb

    Choir: Bavarian Radio Symphony Choir. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Impromptu-Caprice, Op 9

    Performer: Lavinia Meijer.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: COLLEGIUM MUSICUM 90

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Concerto in G major 'alla rustica', RV151

      Orchestra: Collegium Musicum 90. Director: Simon Standage.
      • CHANDOS.
  • Frank Bridge

    Dance Poem

    Orchestra: 91热爆 National Orchestra of Wales. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • Chandos.
  • Johannes Brahms

    Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor

    Orchestrator: Arnold Schoenberg. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Robert Craft.
    • SONY.

By Association

Answer: Johannes Brahms and Arnold Schoenberg

The music played:

Brahms orch. Schoenberg
Piano Quartet No.1 in G minor: I. Allegro
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Robert Craft (conductor)
SONY

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  • Thu 3 Nov 2016 09:00

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