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Monday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Baroque: trio sonatas; Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade.

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: identify a piece of music played in reverse.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the award-winning broadcast journalist Hugh Sykes. Hugh began working in radio in the early 1970s, then after a stint in local TV he spent ten years on 91热爆 Radio 4's Today programme. He went on to front PM on Radio 4 and his reporting has taken him all over the world, from China and Palestine to South Africa and Northern Ireland. He talks to Sarah about the dangers and delights of delivering features from the front line and chooses a selection of his favourite classical music.

10.30
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah places Music in Time, heading back to the Baroque period and explaining how, despite their name, Trio Sonatas do not necessarily require three players.

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is one of America's finest orchestras, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble renowned especially for the warm sound of its impressive brass section. Every day this week Sarah will be showcasing recordings the orchestra has made with some of the most celebrated conductors of the twentieth century, including a classic account of Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, conducted by Fritz Reiner. Other highlights are Brahms' Fourth Symphony with Daniel Barenboim, Strauss's epic tone poem Ein Heldenleben with Bernard Haitink, Rafael Kubelik in Mozart's 'Prague' Symphony, and Georg Solti conducting Tchaikovsky's Symphony No.6 'Path茅tique'.

Rimsky-Korsakov
Scheherazade
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Fritz Reiner (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Igor Stravinsky

    The Firebird: Game of the Princesses with the Golden Apples

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Pierre Boulez.
    • DG.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.
    • MERCURY.
  • Domenico Scarlatti

    Sonata in G minor, Kk.30 'Cat's Fugue'

    Performer: Yevgeny Sudbin.
    • BIS.
  • Edvard Grieg

    Album for Males Voices, Op.30 No.2 Children's Song

    Choir: Grex Vocalis. Director: Carl Hogset.
    • 2L.
  • Wilhelm Peterson鈥怋erger

    To the Roses, Op.16 no.4

    Performer: Noriko Ogawa.
    • BIS.
  • Paul Hindemith

    Kammermusik No.1

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
    • DECCA.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Romance No.1 in G, Op.40

    Performer: Gil Shaham. Orchestra: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Quintet in A, D667 ('Trout'): III. Scherzo (presto)

    Performer: J枚rg Demus. Performer: Franzjosef Maier. Performer: Heinz-Otto Graf. Performer: Rudolf Mandalka. Performer: Paul Breuer.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Sugar Rum Cherry

    Music Arranger: Duke Ellington. Ensemble: Duke Ellington Orchestra.
    • Duke Ellington The Nutcracker Suite.
    • Columbia.
    • 4.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    The Magic Flute: Act 1, Sc.1 - 'Dies Bildnis ist bezaubernd sch枚n'

    Singer: Nicolai Gedda. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Otto Klemperer.
    • EMI.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in F major, Op 15 No 1

    Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.
    • Chopin: The Nocturnes: Maria Joao Pires.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 4.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Trio Sonata for organ No 5 in C major, BWV 529

    Performer: Simon Preston.
    • DG.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Trio in One Movement in B flat major, D.28: Allegro

    Ensemble: The Florestan Trio.
    • HYPERION.
  • Philip Glass

    Koyaanisqatsi (Koyaanisqatsi)

    Choir: Western Wind Vocal Ensemble.
    • ISLAND.
  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    Scheherazade

    Performer: Sidney Harth. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • RCA LIVING STEREO.
  • Morley Calvert

    Suite 'From the Monteregian Hills'

    Ensemble: Center City Brass Quintet.
    • Chandos.

Musical Challenge: Recording Rewind

The music being played backwards was聽from the聽opening of Beethoven's Romance No.1 in G.

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