Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Haydn's Symphony No 2; Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured in Tchaikovsky's Symphony No 6.
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 work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?
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: Classical
Today Sarah is in the Classical period, focusing on the distinctive sound of the early orchestra - without flutes or clarinets - in Haydn's Symphony No.2.
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'.
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 'Path茅tique'
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Georg Solti (conductor).
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Music Played
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Swan Lake: Danse Espagnole
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- DECCA.
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Manuel Infante
Andalusian Dances
Ensemble: Katia Lab猫que.- Espagna.
- Philips.
- 12.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Concerto grosso in D major Op.6`4
Ensemble: H枚枚r Barock. Director: Dan Laurin.- BIS.
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Jacques Ibert
Jeux
Performer: Emmanuel Pahud. Performer: Eric Le Sage.- WARNER.
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Gerald Finzi
Magnificat
Performer: Daniel Cook. Choir: Choir of Westminster Abbey. Conductor: James O鈥橠onnell.- HYPERION.
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Eug猫ne Ysa每e
Caprice d'apres l'Etude en forme de Valse de C. Saint-Saens, Op.52
Performer: Rosanne Philippens. Performer: Julien Quentin.- CHANNEL.
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HUGH SYKES' CHOICE NO. 1
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Cello Suite No.4 in E flat, BWV 1010: 5. Bourr茅e I, 6. Bourr茅e II
Performer: Paul Tortelier.- EMI.
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HUGH SYKES' CHOICE NO. 2
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Franz Schubert
String Quintet in C, D956: II. Adagio
Performer: Isaac Stern. Performer: Alexander Schneider. Performer: Milton Katims. Performer: Pau Casals. Performer: Paul Tortelier.- SONY.
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MUSIC IN TIME: CLASSICAL
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.2 in C major, Hob.I:2
Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.- NIMBUS.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Exsultate, Jubilate K.165
Singer: Carolyn Sampson. Orchestra: Bach Collegium Japan. Conductor: Masaaki Suzuki.- BIS.
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Sergey Prokofiev
March for a Spartakiade (4 Marches Op.69)
Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Clark Rundell.- Russian Wind Band Classics: RNCM Wind Orchestra / Rundell.
- Chandos.
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ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.6 'Pathetique'
Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Georg Solti.- DECCA.
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Anne Boyd
As I crossed a Bridge of Dreams
Choir: Ars Nova Copenhagen. Conductor: Paul Hillier.- DACAPO.
Musical Challenge: By Association
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- Wed 1 Feb 2017 09:0091热爆 Radio 3