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Friday - Sarah Walker with Mariella Frostrup

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Bartok's Piano Concerto No 1; Artist of the Week: Harry Christophers, featured conducting Vivaldi's Gloria, RV589.

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the columnist, arts broadcaster and campaigner, Mariella Frostrup. Mariella is the host of Radio 4's Open Book, a programme which celebrates new writing as well as unearthing lost classics. She also presents the series Bringing Up Britain, a discussion about modern-day parenting, and writes a weekly agony aunt column in The Observer magazine. Throughout the week, Mariella reflects on her life and work and shares some of her favourite classical music with Sarah, including pieces by Scarlatti, Philip Glass and Handel.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Sarah heads back to the Modern period and discovers the increasing prominence of the percussion section of the orchestra in a 20th century work: Bartok's First Piano Concerto.

11am
Artist of the Week: Harry Christophers
Sarah's artist of the week is the conductor Harry Christophers. Best known as the founder and conductor of The Sixteen, Christophers is also Artistic Director of Boston's Handel and Haydn Society and Principal Guest Conductor of the Granada Symphony Orchestra. Christophers developed The Sixteen from an unnamed group of 16 singers and friends in 1977 into one of the most famous and highly respected chamber choirs in the world. Under his leadership the choir has become well known for balancing individual brilliance with sensitive ensemble, qualities which has allowed it to succeed in a wide range of music. Together the choir and Christophers have made definitive recordings of Handel oratorios, Purcell operas and Renaissance choral music, including Palestrina and music from the Eton Choirbook, as well as Lotti's Crucifixus, and Tallis' Spem in Alium, both of which we hear this week. Christophers has also made his mark with performances of contemporary music, by John Tavener and Frank Martin.

Vivaldi
Gloria, RV589
The Sixteen
The Symphony of Harmony and Invention
Harry Christophers (conductor).

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Fri 27 Jan 2017 09:00
91热爆 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • B茅la Bart贸k

    2 Hungarian Folksongs from Csik Sz.35a

    Performer: Zolt谩n Kocsis.
    • HUNGAROTON.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Masques et Bergamasques

    Orchestra: Seattle Symphony. Conductor: Ludovic Morlot.
    • Seattle Symphony.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland, BWV599

    Performer: David Theodor Schmidt. Music Arranger: Ferruccio Busoni.
    • PROFIL.

  • Julius Fucik

    Der alte Brummb盲r

    Performer: Jiri Formacek. Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: V谩clav Neumann.
    • WARNER APEX.

  • William Lawes

    Royall Consort Suite no.3 in D minor

    Performer: Elizabeth Kenny. Ensemble: Phantasm. Director: Laurence Dreyfus.
    • LINN.

  • Sir Hamilton Harty

    In Ireland

    Music Arranger: Catherine Beynon. Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Catherine Beynon.
    • METIER.

  • Georges Auric

    Suite from 'Moulin Rouge': Quadrille

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Mariella Frostrup's Choice No. 1

    • Domenico Scarlatti

      Piano Sonata in E major, KK.380

      Performer: Vladimir Horowitz.
      • DG.

  • Mariella Frostrup's Choice No. 2

    • Philip Glass

      Metamorphosis Five

      • SONY.

  • Mariella Frostrup's Choice No. 3

    • Henry Purcell

      Here the deities approve: 3. Welcome to all the pleasures, Z339

      Singer: Robin Blaze. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Director: Phillipe Herreweghe.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Jean鈥怭hilippe Rameau

    Dardanus (Chaconne)

    Orchestra: European Union Baroque Orchestra. Director: Roy Goodman.
    • Rameau: Ballet Suites: European Union Baroque Orchestra/Goodman.
    • Naxos.
    • 24.

  • Music in time: Modern

    • B茅la Bart贸k

      Piano Concerto No.1, Sz.83

      • TELDEC.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Symphony No. 4: III. Allegro giocoso - Poco meno presto

    Orchestra: Berlin Phiharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • BERLIN PHILHARMONIC.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Harry Christophers

    • Antonio Vivaldi

      Gloria in D major, RV.589

      Choir: The Sixteen. Orchestra: Orchestra of The Sixteen. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
      • COLLINS CLASSICS.

  • Carl Maria von Weber

    Variations on a theme from Silvana, Op 33

    Performer: Sabine Meyer. Music Arranger: Rainer Schottst盲dt. Orchestra: Philharmonia Z眉rich. Conductor: Franz Welser鈥怣枚st.
    • A Night at the Opera: Sabine Meyer.
    • EMI Classics.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: Harry Christophers

    • Michael Tippett

      Five Spirituals from A Child of Our Time

      Ensemble: The Sixteen. Singer: Carys Lane. Singer: Sally Bruce-Payne. Singer: Neil MacKenzie. Singer: Robert Evans. Conductor: Harry Christophers.
      • a la Gloire de Dieu: The Sixteen.
      • Coro.
      • 6.

Musical Challenge: Heard on Screen

The answer is 'Moulin Rouge' (1952), which features聽Offenbach's famous聽Can-can from the opera 'Orpheus in the Underworld' in an arrangement by James Turner.

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    91热爆 Radio 3

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