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Tuesday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Part Songs; Proms Artist Recommends: Nobuyuki Tsujii; Essential Choice: Bach: Orchestral Suite, BWV1067.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Mendelssohn Part Songs, Netherlands Chamber Choir, GLOBE GLO5075, and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
A new feature for the 2013 Proms Season: 'Proms Artist Recommends'.
An artist performing later today in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around 10am. Today's artist is Nobuyuki Tsujii, .

10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the lawyer and former President of the European Court of Human Rights, Sir Nicolas Bratza. Among his many positions, Sir Nicolas is a member of the Advisory Council and former Vice-Chairman of the British Institute of Human Rights, a member of the Advisory Board of the British Institute of International and Comparative Law and a member of the Editorial Board of the European Human Rights Law Review.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Bach arr. Mahler: Orchestral Suite, BWV 1067
Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

11.20am
Schubert: Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D.845
Wilhelm Kempff (piano).

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Last on

Tue 16 Jul 2013 09:00

Music Played

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Gigue from French Suite in E flat, BWV 815

    Performers: Angela Hewitt (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA 67122.
  • Antonín Dvořák

    Slavonic Rhapsody, Op. 45 No. 2

    Performers: Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra, Zdenék Kosler (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.550610.
  • 9.15: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week

    • Felix Mendelssohn

      Neujahrslied, Op. 88 No. 1; Der Glückliche, Op. 88 No. 2; Hirtenlied, Op. 88 No. 3

      Performers: Netherlands Chamber Choir, Uwe Gronostay (conductor)

      • GLOBE GLO5075.
  • G Pierne

    Impromptu-caprice, Op. 9

    Performers: Marisa Robles (harp)

    • DECCA 433 869 2.
  • 9.30am

    • Today's Brainteaser

      Who's Singing?

      Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.

  • Joseph Haydn

    Piano Sonata in E minor H.XVI No. 34

    Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)

    • PHILIPS 412 228 2.
  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Scene from Act 2 and Dance of the little swans from Swan Lake

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich (conductor)

    • DG 449 726 2.
  • 10am: Proms Artists Recommend - Nobuyuki Tsujii

    • Frédéric Chopin

      Polonaise in A flat 'Polonaise Heroique'

      Performers: Nobuyuki Tsujii (piano)

      • AVEX AVCL 25178.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    Gli Ucelli (The Birds)

    Performers: San Francisco Symphony, Edo de Waart (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 411 419 2.
  • 10.30: Sir Nicolas Bratza's Choices

    • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

      Song of India

      Performers: Yovanovitch Bratza (violin), Serge Krish (piano)

      • COLUMBIA 4823.
  • Cyril Scott

    Sonnet No. 1

    Performers: Yovanovitch Bratza (violin), Dusko Yovanovitch (piano)

    • ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Recording.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Partita No. 2 in D minor, BWV 1004: Allemande & Corrente

    Performers: Julia Fischer (violin)

    • PENTATONE PTC5186072.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Vespers (All Night Vigil): Ave Maria; Nunc Dimittis

    Performers: Constantin Ognevoi (tenor), National Choir of the USSR, Alexander Sveshnikov (conductor)

    • LE CHANT DE MONDE LDC 278552.
  • Trad arr Bartok

    Hungarian Folk Song no 2 BB80b Sz66

    Performers: Zoltan Kocsis (piano)

    • DECCA 478 2364.
  • 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Bach Suite (arr. Mahler)

      Performers: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

      • DECCA 470 652 2.
  • Franz Schubert

    Piano Sonata No. 16 in A minor, D.845

    Performers: Wilhelm Kempff (piano)

    • DG 423 500 2.
  • Jean Sibelius

    The Maidens with Roses & Song of Praise from Swanwhite Suite op 54

    Performers: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Järvi (conductor)

    • BIS BISCD 359.

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  • Tue 16 Jul 2013 09:00

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