Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Howard Brenton
With Sarah Walker. Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances; Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires; Playwright Howard Brenton; Sarah's Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
Sarah Walker with her guest, the playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Glinka - Overtures and Dances featuring the USSR Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Evgeny Svetlanov, and at 9.30am, our daily brainteaser: First Names
10am
Artist of the Week: Maria Joao Pires
10.30am
This week, Sarah's guest is the award-winning playwright and screenwriter Howard Brenton. Known for his state-of-the-nation political comedies and satires, his plays have included #aiww: The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, The Churchill Play, Weapons of Happiness, Anne Boleyn, 55 Days (a fictional meeting between Cromwell and Charles I) and, with David Hare, Pravda and Brassneck. He has written a number of screenplays, including episodes for the 蜜芽传媒 TV series, Spooks, and has produced translations of plays by Goethe, Brecht and Georg B眉chner.
11am
Essential Choice: Maria Callas.
In celebration of the 90th anniversary of the birth of Maria Callas, Sarah Walker presents classic recordings from her spectacular operatic career.
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Music Played
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Malcolm Arnold
Four English Dances, Set 2 (Con brio)
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Chandos.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
The Creatures of Prometheus (Overture)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan. -
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Mikhail Ivanovich Glinka
Premiere Polka in B flat major
Orchestra: State Academic Symphony Orchestra of The Russian Federation. Conductor: Evgeny Fyodorovich Svetlanov.- Regis.
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Hector Berlioz
Rob Roy - Overture
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Gibson.- CHANDOS.
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anon
Puzzle
Conductor: anon. -
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
3 Nocturnes Op.9 (no.1 in B flat minor)
Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- DG.
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Jacques Ibert
Escales
Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.- RCA Living Stereo.
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George Frideric Handel
Zadok the priest, HWV 258
Performer: Thurston Dart. Performer: John Langdon. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.- Decca.
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Edvard Grieg
Violin Sonata in C minor, Op. 45
Performer: Augustin Dumay. Performer: Maria Jo茫o Pires.- DG.
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 6 in D major, 'Le matin' (1st mvt)
Orchestra: Austro-Hungarian Haydn Orchestra. Conductor: 脕d谩m Fischer.- Nimbus.
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony No. 5: Sturmisch bewegt
Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.- DG.
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Jacques Offenbach
Galop from Genevieve de Brabant
Orchestra: Cincinnati Pops Orchestra. Conductor: Erich Kunzel.- TELARC.
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Anon.
Flos regalis virginalis
Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.- ECM.
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Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: 'Ebben? Ne andro lontana'
Singer: Maria Callas. Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Tullio Serafin.- EMI.
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Johannes Brahms
Trio in E flat major for horn, violin and piano, Op 40 (2nd mvt)
Performer: Daniel Phillips. Performer: William Purvis. Performer: Richard Goode.- BRIDGE.
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Joseph Haydn
Piano Sonata No 50 in D major, H XVI 37
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- PHILIPS.
Today鈥檚 Brainteaser Answer
Puzzle
Listen to three clips of music, identify the first names of the composers, and this should lead you to a聽famous baby. The pieces were: Walking the Dog, by GEORGE Gershwin;the Poem of Ecstasy, by ALEXANDER Scriabin; and the Nonet, by LOUIS Spohr. George Alexander Louis - the full name of Prince George of Cambridge, son of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge, and Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge.
The music played:
George Gershwin
Walking the dog
Katia and Marielle Labeque (piano duo)
SONY CLASSICSAL 48381聽聽聽
Alexander Scriabin
Poem of Ecstasy, Op. 54
New York Philharmonic
Pierre Boulez (conductor)
SONY CLASSICAL SM2K64100聽
Louis Spohr
End of 1st movement of Nonet in F, Op. 31
Nash Ensemble
CRD CRD3354聽聽
Broadcast
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