
Monday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith
With Sarah Walker. Including CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Brainteaser: Place that Piece; Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy; Copland: Appalachian Spring.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, developmental psychologist, Uta Frith.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Hesperion XX and Jordi Savall, ALIA VOX. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy
10.30am
2nd April is World Autism Awareness Day, and Sarah's guest this week is the developmental psychologist, Prof. Uta Frith. Uta is a leading expert in the areas of dyslexia and autism, and has contributed several major theories, which have helped form a better understanding of the conditions. Her aim still is to discover the underlying causes of these disorders, and to link them to behaviour and to the brain. She has received an extensive list of awards for her outstanding research, including an honorary DBE in 2012.
11am
Copland
Appalachian Spring
The Building a Library recommendation from last Saturday's CD Review.
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Music Played
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Frédéric Chopin
Study in G major, Op 10 No 5, 'Black key'
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Decca.
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Camille Saint‐Saëns
Marche militaire française (Suite algérienne, Op.60)
Orchestra: Royal Scottish National Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme Järvi.- Chandos.
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Innocenzio Alberti
Pavan of Alberti; Galliard
Ensemble: Hespèrion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Nardini
Violin Concerto in G major
Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Director: Andrea Marcon.- Archiv.
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Jean Sibelius
Finlandia Op.26
Orchestra: Philharmonia. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.- Decca.
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Thomas Campion
My love hath vow'd
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Performer: Andreas Martin. -
Alexandre Guilmant
Sonata No.1 in D minor Op.42: Finale
Performer: Christopher Herrick.- Hyperion.
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Sergey Rachmaninov
Piano Concerto No 4 in G minor, Op 40
Performer: Vladimir Ashkenazy. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: André Previn.- Decca.
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Robert Schumann
Von fremden Ländern und Menschen (Kinderszenen)
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- PHILIPS.
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Antonín Dvořák
Sonatina in G major, Op 100
Performer: James Ehnes. Performer: Eduard Laurel.- ANALEKTA.
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Joseph Haydn
Scherzando No.3 in D - Allegro
Performer: Haydn Sinfonietta Wien. Performer: Manfred Huss (conductor).- BIS.
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Aaron Copland
Appalachian Spring
Ensemble: Columbia Chamber Ensemble. Conductor: Aaron Copland.- Sony.
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Kurt Weill
Buddy on the nightshift for voice and piano
Singer: Anne Sofie von Otter. Performer: Bengt Forsberg.- 111 Years Of Deutsche Grammophon The Collector's Edition Vol.2.
- Deutshe Grammophon.
- 12.
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Weill
Buddy on the Nightshift
Performer: Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo soprano). Performer: Bengt Forsberg (piano).- DG.
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Bach
Suite No.2 in B minor BWV1067
Performer: London Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Pierre Monteux (conductor).- DECCA.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Place that Piece
Westminster Abbey
The music played:
Handel
Let thy hand be strengthened
The King’s Consort
The Choir of the King’s Consort
Robert King (conductor)
HYPERION CDA67286
Broadcast
- Mon 31 Mar 2014 09:00ѿý Radio 3