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Friday - Sarah Walker with Ben Okri

Discover definitive recordings of classical music with your trusted guide, Sarah Walker. Her guest is author Ben Okri.

9am
Rob 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 today's musical challenge: can you work out the classical source of this pop song?

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Ben Okri. Ben shot to literary fame when his novel The Famished Road won the 1991 Man Booker Prize, making him the youngest ever recipient at the time. Ben grew up in Nigeria and London surrounded by his father's impressive personal library and published his first novel aged 19. Ben's writing often touches on magical themes, while also dealing with the big questions of life. As well as discussing his writing and his life, throughout the week Ben will be sharing some of his favourite classical music.

10.30am
Music on Location: Wales
This week Sarah explores music connected with Wales. Today she's exploring Beethoven's arrangements of traditional Welsh folk songs.

Proms Artist of the Week: Christian Tetzlaff
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the German violinist Christian Tetzlaff. Tetzlaff has long been regarded as one of the world's leading violinists, breathing fresh life into the classics and championing new works. He's been Artist in Residence with the Berlin Philharmonic and he's appeared regularly as a guest with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, New York Philharmonic Orchestra and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Tetzlaff appears at the 91热爆 Proms this week (15th August), playing Berg's Violin Concerto with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Robin Ticciati. This week Sarah has chosen Tetzlaff's recordings of concertante works by Mozart, Szymanowski and Dvorak, as well as chamber music by Schumann and Brahms.

Mozart
Violin Concerto No 1 in B flat major, K 207
Christian Tetzlaff (violin/director)
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie.

2 hours

Last on

Fri 18 Aug 2017 09:00

Music Played

  • Gabriel Piern茅

    Canzonetta, Op.19

    Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.
    • Chandos.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Concerto in D major TWV.51:D7 for trumpet and strings [4 mvts] [complete]

    Performer: H氓kan Hardenberger. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Iona Brown.
    • PHILIPS.
  • Franz Liszt

    19 Hungarian rhapsodies S.244 (no.6 in D flat major)

    Performer: Martha Argerich.
    • DG.
  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin, Act I: Prelude

    Orchestra: Staatskapelle Berlin. Conductor: Daniel Barenboim.
    • TELDEC.
  • Frank Bridge

    Cherry ripe

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble.
    • HYPERION.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Piano Concerto no.1 in D flat major Op.10

    Performer: Evgeny Kissin. Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.
    • DG.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Samson et Dalila: Mon coeur s'ouvre 脿 ta voix

    Singer: Olga Borodina. Singer: Jos茅 Cura. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • ERATO.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    In Paradisum (Requiem)

    Choir: La Chapelle Royale. Orchestra: Orchestre des Champs鈥惷塴ys茅es. Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, BWV 147: 'Jesus bleibet meine Freude'

    Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • EMI.
  • Robert Schumann

    Kinderszenen: Kind鈥痠m鈥疎inschlummern鈥(Child falling asleep)鈥

    Performer: Nelson Freire.
    • DECCA.
  • Dieterich Buxtehude

    Toccata in D minor, BuxWV 155

    Performer: Christopher Herrick.
    • Buxtehude: The Complete Organ Works - 2, Christopher Herrick, Organ of Nidaros C.
    • Hyperion.
    • 19.
  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    25 Welsh Folk Songs, WoO.155 (The Vale of Clwyd; The Monks of Bangor's march)

    Singer: Sophie Daneman. Singer: Paul Agnew. Singer: Peter Harvey. Performer: Alessandro Moccia. Performer: Alix Verzier. Performer: J茅r么me Hanta茂.
    • NAIVE.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Violin Concerto No.1

    Performer: Christian Tetzlaff. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.
    • ERATO.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Gigue in G major, K 574

    Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.
    • Hyperion.

Musical Challenge: Classical Roots

The piece was 'Mon c艙ur s'ouvre 脿 ta voix' from Saint-Sa毛ns鈥檚 opera Samson et Dalila, which was used in the 1960 hit 'Night' sung by Jackie Wilson

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  • Fri 18 Aug 2017 09:00

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