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Friday - Sarah Walker with Maggi Hambling

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Buxtehude's Membra Jesu Nostri; Artists of the Week: London Sinfonietta, featured performing Gorecki's Symphony No 3.

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鈥痯art in today's musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify a mystery鈥痬usical personality.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the artist Maggi Hambling. In a career spanning nearly 50 years Maggi has made her mark in a number of fields, including painting, portraiture and sculpture. Her best-known piece is Scallop, which stands on Aldeburgh beach in Suffolk, and is dedicated to the town's most celebrated son, Benjamin Britten. Another of her sculptures, A Conversation with Oscar Wilde, was the first public monument dedicated to the playwright and novelist. Maggi's portraits include those of fellow artist Francis Bacon and blues singer George Melly and recently, she's produced a number of extremely visceral paintings of waves, the result of daily walks on the Suffolk coast. As well as discussing her life and work, Maggi shares some of her favourite classical music, including Purcell, Britten and the synaesthetic composer Deborah Pritchard.

10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah chooses one of the cantatas from Dietrich Buxtehude's passiontide work, Membra Jesu Nostri, a great example of how music-making was a religious vocation for many composers of the Baroque period.

11am
Artist of the Week: London Sinfonietta
Imbued with a mission to perform the best contemporary classical music, develop new work and nurture new talent, the London Sinfonietta are one of the most vibrant and exciting ensembles in the UK, and arguably the world. Since their first concert in 1968 - the world premiere of John Tavener's The Whale - the Sinfonietta have commissioned more than 300 works and premiered hundreds more. This week Sarah explores some of their finest recordings with music by composers including Gorecki, Stravinsky, Takemitsu, Harrison Birtwistle and John Tavener.

Gorecki
Symphony No.3
Dawn Upshaw (soprano)
London Sinfonietta
David Zinman (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Hans Werner Henze

    Ondine 3 a Pas de seize: Entr茅e

    Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: Oliver Knussen.
    • DG.
  • L茅o Delibes

    Marche et cortege de Bacchus (Sylvia)

    Orchestra: New Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Richard Bonynge.
    • DECCA.
  • Claude Debussy

    Le triomphe de Bacchus: Divertissement: Allegro (Piano 4 hands)

    Performer: Adrienne So贸s. Performer: Ivo Haag.
    • NAXOS.
  • Franz Danzi

    Wind Quintet in B flat Op.56: No.1

    Performer: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.
    • BIS.
  • Heinrich Bach

    Sonata 'A cinque' in F

    Performer: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Conductor: Reinhard Goebel.
    • ARCHIV.
  • Louis Vierne

    Pieces de fantaisie - suite no.4 Op.55 (Naiades)

    Performer: Ben van Oosten.
    • MDG.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Introduction and Allegro

    Performer: Edward Druzinsky. Performer: Donald Peck. Performer: Clark Brody. Conductor: Jean Martinon.
    • RCA.
  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Les Nations - La Fran莽oise: Gigue; Chaconne ou Passacaille

    Ensemble: Florilegium.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Stuart Hancock

    Rhapsody

    Ensemble: London Accordion Orchestra.
    • SOTONES RECORDS.
  • Philip Glass

    The Book of Longing: Prologue, I can't make the hills

    Narrator: Leonard Cohen. Ensemble: Philip Glass Ensemble. Conductor: Michael Riesman.
    • ORANGE MOUNTAIN MUSIC.
  • Olivier Messiaen

    Joie du sang des 茅toiles (Turangal卯la-Symphonie)

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Cynthia Millar. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Juanjo Mena.
    • Messiaen: Turangalila Symphonie: Osborne/Millar/Bergen Philharmonic Orch/Mena.
    • Hyperion.
    • 5.
  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

    Mazurka in F sharp minor, Op 59 No 3

    Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Chopin: The Solo Piano Works: Ashkenazy.
    • London.
    • 9.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Membra Jesu Nostri: IV Ad Latus 'Surge amica mea'

    Singer: Johannette Zomer. Choir: The Netherlands Bach Society. Conductor: Jos van Veldhoven.
    • CHANNEL CLASSICS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Concerto in G minor BWV975 (Transcribed for keyboard)

    Performer: Sophie Yates.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Orlando Gibbons

    The Silver Swan

    Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble. Director: Paul Hillier.
    • English and Italian Renaissance Madrigals.
    • Virgin.
    • 12.
  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Symphony No.3 'Symphony of Sorrowful Songs'

    Singer: Dawn Upshaw. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Zinman.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.
  • George Gershwin

    Summertime; A woman is a sometime thing (Porgy and Bess Suite)

    Performer: Matthew Trusler. Performer: Wayne Marshall. Music Arranger: Jascha Heifetz.
    • Blues: Matthew Trusler/Wayne Marshall.
    • Orchid Classics.
    • 1.

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