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Friday - Sarah Walker with Oliver Jeffers

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Spanish Dances; Music in Time: Monteverdi's Lamento d'Arianna; Artist of the Week: Tabea Zimmermann, featured in Rebecca Clarke's Viola Sonata.

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: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.

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 91Èȱ¬, 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 91Èȱ¬ Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Music in Time: Renaissance
Sarah places Music in Time. Today the spotlight is on the Renaissance and Monteverdi's ground-breaking Lamento d'Arianna, which revolutionised the way composers set words to music.

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.

Clarke
Viola Sonata
Tabea Zimmermann (viola)
Kirill Gerstein (piano).

3 hours

Music Played

  • MY FAVOURITE...SPANISH DANCES

    • Maurice Ravel

      Alborada del gracioso (Miroirs)

      Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris – Philharmonie. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
      • EMI.
  • Gottfried August Homilius

    Sonata for oboe and continuo

    Performer: Jane Downer. Performer: Peter Hagen. Ensemble: Austral Harmony.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Euryanthe (Overture)

    Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
    • DG.
  • Kaija Saariaho

    Uberzeugung

    Choir: Norwegian Soloists Choir. Orchestra: Oslo Sinfonietta. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
    • BIS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in A minor for recorder, two violins and continuo, RV108

    Ensemble: Il Giardino Armonico. Director: Giovanni Antonini.
    • TELDEC.
  • Franz Schubert

    Four Impromptus, D.935: No.1 in F minor

    Performer: Radu Lupu.
    • DECCA.
  • William Walton

    Henry V (Overture)

    Music Arranger: Muir Mathieson. Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • Walton: Belshazzar's Feast etc: Terfel/Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra/Litton.
    • London.
    • 11.
  • William Walton

    Touch her soft lips, and part (Henry V Suite)

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
    • DECCA.
  • OLIVER JEFFERS' CHOICE NO. 1

    • Arvo Pärt

      Spiegel im Spiegel

      Performer: Benjamin Hudson. Performer: Jürgen Kruse.
      • BRILLIANT.
    • Benjamin Britten

      Dawn (4 Sea interludes from 'Peter Grimes' Op.33a)

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Rondino in E flat major WoO.25

    Ensemble: Bläserensemble Sabine Meyer.
    • Beethoven: Octet etc.: Sabine Meyer Wind Ensemble.
    • Warner Classics.
    • 9.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: RENAISSANCE

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Lamento d'Arianna

      Singer: Montserrat Figueras. Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
      • ALIA VOX.
  • Jean Sibelius

    Valse lyrique Op.96 no.1

    Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
    • Sibelius: Violin concerto, Karelia Suite, The Swan of Tuonela and other works.
    • CHANDOS.
    • 8.
  • Zoltán Kodály

    Adagio

    Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Thomas Hoppe.
    • MYRIOS.
  • Edward Elgar

    They are at rest

    Choir: Choir of Clare College, Cambridge. Director: Graham Ross.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: TABEA ZIMMERMANN

    • Rebecca Clarke

      Sonata in E minor for viola and piano

      Performer: Tabea Zimmermann. Performer: Kirill Gerstein.
      • MYRIOS CLASSICS.
  • John Tavener

    Eternity's Sunrise

    Singer: Patricia Rozario. Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Director: Paul Goodwin.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Horn Concerto no.4 in E flat K.495

    Performer: Alessio Allegrini. Orchestra: Orchestra Mozart. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mozart: Horn Concertos: Allegrini/Orchestra Mozart/Claudio Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 9.

Mystery Object

Answer: a string mute

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