Friday - Sarah Walker with Maxwell Hutchinson
With Sarah Walker. Includes Musical challenge; Music on Location: Janacek: Jenufa (selection); Proms Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan, conducting Haydn's Symphony No 57.
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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 musical challenge:鈥痶wo pieces of music are played together - can you identify them?
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鈥疨resident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
Sarah introduces music from Janacek's opera Jen暖fa - its staging in Prague in 1916 led the composer to international success.
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, Halle, 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.
Haydn
Symphony No. 57 in D major
Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
Nicholas McGegan (conductor).
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Music Played
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Edward Elgar
Chanson de matin Op.15`2
Performer: Nigel Kennedy. Performer: Peter Pettinger.- Elgar: Violin sonata etc: Kennedy/Pettinger.
- Chandos.
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Felice Anerio
Salve Regina
Orchestra: The Sixteen. Conductor: Eamonn Dougan.- CORO.
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Aaron Copland
Billy the Kid - ballet suite
Orchestra: The Philadelphia Orchestra. Conductor: Eugene Ormandy.- RCA.
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Francisco T谩rrega
Etude in A major
Performer: Julian Bream.- SONY.
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Claude Debussy
Prelude a l'apres-midi d'un faune
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fantasia and Fugue in G minor, BWV 542
Performer: Peter Hurford.- DECCA.
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Maxwell Hutchinson's First Choice
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Edward Elgar
Piano Quintet in A minor Op.84 (3rd mvt)
Performer: Ian Brown. Ensemble: Sorrel Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Maxwell Hutchinson's Second Choice
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Hildegard von Bingen
Antiphon: Caritas habundat in omnia
Ensemble: Anonymous 4.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Sarah Walker's Personal Shopper Choice for Maxwell Hutchinson
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
3 Preludes on Welsh Hymn Tunes for organ: I. Bryn Calfaria
Performer: Christopher Nickol.- PRIORY.
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Felix Mendelssohn
The Bee's Wedding (Songs without words - bk.6 Op.67)
Orchestrator: Don Banks. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Conductor: Robert Irving.- Vocalion.
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Music on Location: Prague
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Leos Jan谩膷ek
Jenufa: final scene
Singer: Elisabeth S枚derstr枚m. Singer: Eva Randov谩. Singer: Wies艂aw Ochman. Choir: Vienna Philharmonic Choir. Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- DECCA.
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Franz Schubert
Drei Klavierst眉cke, D 946 (No 1 in E flat minor)
Performer: Rudolf Firku拧n媒.- 91热爆.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Violin Sonata in G major, Op 5 No 6
Performer: Elizabeth Wallfisch. Performer: Richard Tunnicliffe. Performer: Paul Nicholson. Ensemble: The Locatelli Trio.- Corelli: Violin Sonatas: The Locatelli Trio.
- Hyperion.
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Artist of the Week: Nicholas McGegan
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No.57 in D major
Orchestra: Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale. Conductor: Nicholas McGegan.- PHILHARMONIA BAROQUE.
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Samuel Wesley
Blessed be the God and Father
Performer: Adrian Partington. Choir: Worcester Cathedral Choir. Conductor: Donald Hunt.- Cathedral Anthems By S S Wesley - 1.
- Hyperion.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Piano Concerto no.2 in G minor Op.22
Performer: Benjamin Grosvenor. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: James Judd.- DECCA.
Musical Challenge: Imperfect Harmony
Broadcast
- Fri 21 Jul 2017 09:0091热爆 Radio 3