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Friday - Sarah Walker with Hugh Sykes

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Mahler; Artists of the Week: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, featured performing Brahms's Symphony No 4 in E minor.

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 our daily musical challenge. Two pieces of music are played together. Can you identify them?

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.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Sarah chooses music from the late Romantic era, looking at the age of Freud and the existential angst in the music of Mahler.

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'.

Brahms
Symphony No.4 in E minor
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Daniel Barenboim (conductor).

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Fri 3 Feb 2017 09:00
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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Hungarian Dance No.10 in F

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • DG.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Organ Concerto in B flat, Op. 4 No. 6 HWV 294 (arranged for harp)

    Performer: Ursula Holliger. Orchestra: The English Concert. Conductor: Trevor Pinnock.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Charles Koechlin

    Vers la plage lointaine (2 Poemes symphoniques, Op. 43)

    Orchestra: Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Heinz Holliger.
    • HANSSLER.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Nocturne in A flat major, Op 33 No 3

    Performer: Jean鈥怭hilippe Collard.
    • BRILLIANT.

  • Henry Purcell

    Fantazia 脿 3 No 3 in G minor

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    • Maurice Ravel

      Daphnis et Chloe: Suite No. 2

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony. Conductor: Jean Martinon.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Choir: Tenebrae. Conductor: Nigel Short.
    • SIGNUM.

  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No. 1

    • Ludwig van Beethoven

      Symphony No.1 in C, Op.21: I. Adagio molto-Allegron con brio (extract)

      Orchestra: National Youth Orchestra of Iraq.

  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No. 2

    • Trad

      Mali Chugul bil Soug (I've got nothing to do in the souk)

      Music Arranger: Ilham al-Madfai. Singer: Ilham al-Madfai.
      • HEMISPHERE.

  • Hugh Sykes' Choice No. 3

    • Alexander Glazunov

      Autumn; Petit adagio (The Seasons, Op.67)

      Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Robert Schumann

    Papillons, Op.2: No.2 in A flat major

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Schumann: Carnaval, Fantasiest眉cke, Papillons: Marc-Andre Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Gustav Mahler

      Das irdische Leben (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

      Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Conductor: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Der Tambourg'sell (Des Knaben Wunderhorn)

    Singer: Thomas Quasthoff. Conductor: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • Mahler: Des Knaben Wunderhorn: Von Otter/Quasthoff/Abbado.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
    • 12.

  • Richard Wagner

    Forest Murmurs (Siegfried)

    Orchestra: Sim贸n Bol铆var Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Gustavo Dudamel.
    • Wagner - Dudamel.
    • Gustavo Dudamel.
    • 3.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Nocturne in E major, Op.62 No.2

    Performer: Charles Richard-Hamelin.
    • FREDERICK CHOPIN INSTITUTE.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Bird Scarer's Song

    Performer: Julius Drake. Singer: Gerald Finley.
    • Benjamin Britten, Songs and Proverbs of William Blake: Gerald Finley and Julius.
    • Hyperion.
    • 33.

  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    • Johannes Brahms

      Symphony No.4

      Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
      • WARNER.

  • Johannes Brahms

    16 Waltzes Op.39 (no.6 in C sharp major)

    Ensemble: Duo Tal & Groethuysen.
    • Sony.

  • ARTISTS OF THE WEEK: Chicago Symphony Orchestra

    • Giuseppe Verdi

      Requiem: Libera me

      Singer: Barbara Frittoli. Choir: Chicago Symphony Chorus. Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Muti.
      • CSO RESOUND.

Musical challenge: Imperfect Harmony

The music played was the conclusion of WIlliam Henry Harris's 'Faire is the Heaven' coupled with Brahms's Three Intermezzi Op.117.

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