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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Sarah Perry

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Balakirev: Islamey; Artist of the Week: violinist Tasmin Little, featured in Schubert's Violin Sonata in A 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 in the week of International Women's Day is the author, academic and journalist Sarah Perry. Sarah was born into a deeply religious household and spent her early life immersed in classical music, classic literature and the King James Bible. She has a PhD in Creative Writing from Royal Holloway which she completed under the supervision of Andrew Motion, and she's been a writer in residence at Gladstone's Library in Wales. Her travel writing about the Philippines earned her a Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize, her debut novel was longlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and her second, The Essex Serpent was named Waterstones Book of the Year. As well as discussing her writing and her life, Sarah shares some of her favourite classical music.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Today Sarah examines why Mily Balakirev's work, Islamey (Oriental Fantasy), is considered one of the most difficult solo piano pieces in the standard repertoire.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two versions of Grainger's Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy', one for piano and the other for orchestra.

11am
Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little
Sarah's featured artist is the English violinist Tasmin Little. After studying at the Yehudi Menuhin School and reaching the final of 91热爆 Young Musician of the Year, Tasmin made her professional debut with the Hall茅. Since then she's been a major exponent of British music, recording concertos by Ernest Moeran, Frederick Delius and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, and Vaughan Williams's The Lark Ascending has become something of a signature piece. As well as featuring Tasmin's interpretations of British music, Sarah's chosen a sonata by Schubert, Arvo P盲rt's Fratres and a recent work by Roxanna Panufnik, written especially for Tasmin.

Schubert
Violin Sonata in A minor, D385
Tasmin Little (violin)
Piers Lane (piano).

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Tue 7 Mar 2017 09:00
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Music Played

  • Percy Grainger

    Hill Song No.2

    Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
    • CHANDOS.

  • Charles Villiers Stanford

    Evening Canticles in G major

    Performer: Stephen Farr. Choir: Winchester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: David Hill.
    • HYPERION.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Trio Sonata in F major for two violins and continuo

    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
    • HMC901379.
    • 13.

  • Federico Mompou

    Cancion y Danza No.7

    Performer: Sir Stephen Hough.
    • HYPERION.

  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Sicilienne Op.78

    Performer: Steven Isserlis. Performer: Pascal Devoyon.
    • HYPERION.

  • Richard Strauss

    Don Juan

    Orchestra: Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Fritz Reiner.
    • SONY.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude No.1 in C major (5 Bach Preludes with cello obligato)

    Music Arranger: Ignaz Moscheles. Performer: Jelena O膷i膰. Performer: Federico Lovato.
    • ARCHIV.

  • Sarah Perry's First Choice

    • Franz Schubert

      Impromptu in E flat, D.899 No.2

      Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
      • DECCA.

  • Sarah Perry's Second Choice

    • Franz Schubert

      String Quartet in D minor D.810 'Death and the Maiden' (4th mvt)

      Ensemble: Jerusalem Quartet.
      • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Igor Stravinsky

    Tango

    Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.
    • Channel Classics.

  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev

      Islamey - Oriental Fantasy

      Performer: Georges Cziffra.
      • EMI CLASSICS.

  • Double Take

    • Percy Grainger

      Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy'

      Performer: Piers Lane.
      • HYPERION.

    • Percy Grainger

      Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy'

      Orchestra: 91热爆 Philharmonic. Conductor: Richard Hickox.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Jean Sibelius

    Overture in E major

    Orchestra: Lahti Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Osmo V盲nsk盲.
    • BIS.

  • Artist of the Week: Tasmin Little

    • Franz Schubert

      Violin Sonata 'Sonatina' in A minor, D.385

      Performer: Tasmin Little. Performer: Piers Lane.
      • CHANDOS.

  • Anonymous

    Holy Manna (Brethren, we have met to worship)

    Ensemble: Anonymous 4.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Wassermusik 'Ebb und Fluth'

    Orchestra: Musica Antiqua K枚ln. Director: Reinhard Goebel.

  • Caroline Shaw

    Partita (Sarabande)

    Ensemble: Roomful of Teeth.
    • New Amsterdam.

Musical Challenge: Imperfect Harmony

The two pieces being played simultaneously were the Prelude in E major from Book 1 of Bach's Well Tempered Clavier and the fifth movement of Messiaen's Quartet for the End of Time, 'Louange 脿 l'脡ternit茅 de J茅sus'.

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  • Tue 7 Mar 2017 09:00
    91热爆 Radio 3

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