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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Oliver Jeffers

With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Spanish Dances; Music in Time: the chalumeau; Artist of the Week: viola player Tabea Zimmermann, featured in Bartok's Viola Concerto.

9am
My favourite... Spanish dances. As nationalist feelings emerged during the revolutions of 19th century Europe, composers turned to the forms and styles of their native countries to emphasise their cultural heritage. In Spain composers such as Granados and Falla led the way, creating a style of music that became immensely popular across the continent. Sarah features examples by those two composers, and by followers of the style including Moritz Moszkowski, Mikhail Glinka and Maurice Ravel.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am
Sarah's guest is the artist and illustrator, Oliver Jeffers. Oliver's work ranges from figurative painting and installations to picture book making. His books, which include The Incredible Book Eating Boy and Once Upon An Alphabet, have been translated into over thirty languages, and The Day The Crayons Quit, and its sequel The Day The Crayons Came 91热爆, were both number one New York Times bestsellers. Oliver has won awards including The New York Times Best Illustrated Books, Smarties Award, The Red House Book Award, British Book Design Award, and The Blue Peter Book of the Year. Working in collaboration with Studio AKA, his second book Lost and Found was developed into an animated short film that has received over sixty awards, including a BAFTA for Best Animated Short Film. Throughout the week Oliver talks about his art and illustrations and shares a selection of his favourite pieces of classical music, including works by Bizet, Mascagni and Beethoven.

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: Baroque
Sarah place Music in Time, going back to the Baroque period to discover the chalumeau, the forerunner of the clarinet.

11am
Sarah's artist of the week is one of the world's leading viola players, Tabea Zimmermann, whose playing is celebrated for its breadth, suppleness, and singing tone. These qualities are demonstrated throughout the week, in music ranging from 20th-century masterpieces that Zimmermann has championed, including the Viola Concerto by Bartok and the Viola Sonata by Rebecca Clarke, to more intimate works, such as an elegy by Glazunov, a suite for solo viola by Max Reger, and Berlioz's Harold in Italy - a lyrical meditation on Lord Byron's Childe Harold.

Bartok
Viola Concerto
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra
David Shallon (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Adriaan Willaert

    Vecchie letrose

    Ensemble: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • ALIA VOX.
  • MY FAVOURITE...SPANISH DANCES

    • Moritz Moszkowski

      Spanish Dances Op.12, Nos. 1-3

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ata煤lfo Argenta.
      • DECCA.
  • Trad.

    Sogna fiore mio [Dream my flower]

    Music Arranger: Ambrogio Sparagna. Singer: Lucilla Galeazzi. Ensemble: L鈥橝rpeggiata. Director: Christina Pluhar.
  • Gustav Holst

    St Paul's suite Op.29`2

    Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Lasst mich allein: no.1 from 4 Lieder, Op.82

    Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Anna Polonsky. Music Arranger: John Lenehan.
    • Alisa Weilerstein Dvorak.
    • DECCA.
    • 4.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Sinfonia & Oh the pleasure of the plains! (Acis and Galatea)

    Ensemble: Dunedin Consort. Conductor: John Butt.
    • LINN.
  • Aram Khachaturian

    Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia (Spartacus)

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Yuri Temirkanov.
    • EMI.
  • OLIVER JEFFERS' CHOICE NO. 1

    • Pietro Mascagni

      Cavalleria Rusticana: Intermezzo

      Orchestra: National Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Gavazzeni.
      • DECCA.
  • OLIVER JEFFERS' CHOICE No. 2

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No.6 in F major, 'Pastoral': I. Allegro ma non troppo

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
      • LSO LIVE.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE

    • Georg Philipp Telemann

      Concerto in F major, TWV43:F2 for 2 chalumeaux and strings

      Performer: Lorenzo Coppola. Performer: Tindaro Capuano. Ensemble: La Stagione Frankfurt. Conductor: Michael Schneider.
      • CPO.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in C minor Kk.11

    Performer: Mie Miki.
    • S'il vous pla卯t: Mie Miki.
    • Bis.
    • 3.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Fantasia in C minor, K 475

    Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Mozart: Complete Piano Sonatas: Mitsuko Uchida.
    • Philips.
    • 7.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: TABEA ZIMMERMANN

    • B茅la Bart贸k

      Viola Concerto

      Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Orchestra: Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: David Shallon.
      • EMI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Sonata for flute and basso continuo in E major, BWV1035

    Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Trevor Pinnock. Performer: Jonathan Manson.
    • EMI.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 93 in D major

    Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.

Recording Rewind

The music played:

Khachaturian
Spartacus: Adagio of Spartacus and Phrygia聽
Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
Yuri Temirkanov (conductor)
EMI

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  • Thu 10 Nov 2016 09:00

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