Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Maxwell Hutchinson
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music on Location: Prague. With Myslivecek; Proms Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan, conducting Mozart's Piano Concerto No 19.
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Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.鈥
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Take part in today's鈥痬usical challenge: can you work out which two composers are鈥痑ssociated with a particular鈥痯iece?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the architect and broadcaster Maxwell Hutchinson. Maxwell was a practising architect for many years and in 1989 became the youngest-ever President鈥痮f RIBA, the鈥疪oyal Institute of British Architects.鈥疕e's become one of the foremost broadcasters on architecture, presenting series on 91热爆 Two, Channel Four and 91热爆 Radio London. At one point Maxwell considered becoming a musician and has written three musicals and a Requiem Mass. In the last few years Maxwell has been ordained and is currently a curate at a church in Essex. As well discussing his work, his music and his life, throughout the week Maxwell will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.
10.30
Music on Location: Prague
Sarah introduces music by one of Prague's sons, the composer Josef Myslive膷ek, who was a friend of Mozart's.
Double Take鈥
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences in style between two interpretations of Grieg's song:鈥疉 Swan - both orchestral performances, one featuring Solveig Kringelborn and the other Barbara Bonney.
11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor Nicholas McGegan. McGegan has been hailed as "one of the finest baroque conductors of his generation" (The Independent)鈥痑nd has been director of the San Francisco-based Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale for over 30 years. McGegan has also devoted much of his time to opera; he was Artistic Director of the G枚ttingen Handel Festival for 20 years and Principal Guest Conductor at Scottish Opera in the 1990s. As a guest conductor he's worked with orchestras around the world including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, 91热爆 Scottish Symphony, Hall茅, and Toronto Symphony Orchestra.鈥疍uring the week Sarah will be featuring McGegan's recordings of Haydn's Symphony No.57, Mozart's Piano Concerto in F major K459 with Melvyn Tan, and excerpts from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas and Alessandro Scarlatti's Il Vespero di Santa Cecilia. McGegan is also a flautist and Sarah's chosen his recording of CPE Bach's Flute Quartet in D, Wq.94, with Catherine Mackintosh, Anthony Pleeth and Christopher Hogwood.
Mozart
Piano Concerto in F major, K.459
Melvyn Tan (fortepiano)
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
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Music Played
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Carl Nielsen
Maskarade (Overture)
Orchestra: Baltic Sea Youth Philharmonic. Conductor: Kristjan J盲rvi.- 狈补茂惫别.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem, K.626: Recordare; Confutatis; Lacrimosa
Singer: Barbara Bonney. Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Singer: Hans Peter Blochwitz. Singer: Willard White. Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- PHILIPS.
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Charles-Valentin Alkan
25 Preludes, Op.31: No.13 'J'茅tais endormie, mais mon Coeur veillait
Performer: Laurent Martin.- NAXOS.
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Georg Philipp Telemann
Sonate Corellisante No 3 in B minor, TWV 42 H3
Ensemble: Jean鈥怓茅ry Rebel. Director: Jorg-Michel Schwarz.- DORIAN.
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Johannes Brahms
9 Lieder und Gesange, Op.32: 8. So stehn wir, ich und meine Weide
Performer: Christoph Eschenbach. Singer: Matthias Goerne.- Harmonia Mundi.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Norfolk Rhapsody No 1 in E minor
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- EMI.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Four Mazurkas, Op.33: No.2 in D major
Performer: Jean鈥怣arc Luisada.- DG.
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Alexander Glazunov
Meditation, Op.32
Performer: Itzhak Perlman. Ensemble: Abbey Road Ensemble. Conductor: Lawrence Foster.- EMI.
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Maxwell Hutchinson's First Choice
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Johannes Brahms
Alto Rhapsody Op.53
Singer: Ann Hallenberg. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.- PHI.
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Maxwell Hutchinson's Second Choice
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Ottorino Respighi
The Pines of the Appian Way (The Pines of Rome)
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Seiji Ozawa.- DG.
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William Byrd
Haec dies (Cantiones Sacrae Vol 2)
Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.- Ceremony and Devotion.
- Coro.
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Music on Location: Prague
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Josef Myslivecek
Wind Octet No 1 in E flat major
Ensemble: L'Orfeo Wind Ensemble. Conductor: Carin van Heerden.- Myslivecek: Complete Wind Octets & Quintets: L'Orfeo Blaeserensemble/van Heerden.
- CPO.
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Double Take
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Edvard Grieg
A Swan (6 Songs Op.25)
Singer: Barbara Bonney. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- DG.
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Edvard Grieg
A Swan, Op.25 no.2
Singer: Solveig Kringelborn. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- CHANDOS.
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Josef Strauss
Deliren Waltz
Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic.- Strauss: Die Fledermaus Overture etc.: Wiener Philharmoniker/Karajan.
- Decca.
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Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Concerto in F major, K.459
Performer: Melvyn Tan. Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Malcolm Arnold
Three Shanties for wind quintet, Op 4
Performer: Emma Johnson. Performer: Jaime Mart铆n. Performer: Jonathan Kelly. Performer: Claire Briggs. Performer: Susanna Cohen.- Arnold: Complete Works for Clarinet: Emma Johnson.
- ASV.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Chopiniana Suite, Op.46
Music Arranger: Alexander Glazunov. Orchestra: USSR State Academic Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Alexander Glazunov: The Seasons, Chopiniana.
- MELODIYA.
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Musical Challenge: By Association
Broadcast
- Tue 18 Jul 2017 09:0091热爆 Radio 3