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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Uta Frith

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Elizabethan Consort Music; Brainteaser; Artist of the Week: Vladimir Ashkenazy; Sarah's Essential Choice: Beethoven: Violin Sonata No 5 in F.

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
Sarah's Essential Choice
Beethoven
Violin Sonata No. 5 in F, Op. 24 'Spring'
Alina Ibragimova (violin)
Cedric Tiberghien (piano).

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Music Played

  • Thomas Ad猫s

    Sonata da Caccia (Galament)

    Performer: Michael Niesemann. Performer: Andrew Clark. Performer: Thomas Ad猫s.
    • EMI.

  • anon

    Rodrigo Martines

    Ensemble: Augsburg Early Music Ensemble.
    • Christophorus.

  • anon

    Pavane; Brandberges; La Represa

    Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
    • Alia Vox.

  • Edward Elgar

    Incidental Music and Funeral March from Grania and Diarmid Op.42

    Orchestra: 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Davis.
    • Warner.

  • Ludwig van Beethoven

    Violin Sonata no.5 in F major, Op.24 'Spring' (1st mvt)

    Performer: Alina Ibragimova. Performer: C茅dric Tiberghien.
    • Wigmore Hall Live.

  • Fran莽ois Couperin

    Concert dans le go没t th茅芒tral (Air l茅ger; Sarabande; Air l茅ger)

    Orchestra: Capriccio Stravagante. Director: Skip Semp茅.
    • Naive.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Symphony No. 8 in G major, Op.88

    Orchestra: Boston Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Munch.
    • RCA.

  • LASSUS

    Lagrime di San Pietro: Movements 4 & 5

    Choir: Gallicantus. Director: Gabriel Crouch.
    • Signum.

  • Alexander Glazunov

    The Seasons Op.67: Spring

    Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Piano Concerto No. 1 in C minor, Op. 35

    Performer: Peter Jablonski. Performer: Raymond Simmons. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Ashkenazy.
    • Decca.

  • Steve Reich

    Electric Counterpoint (Fast)

    Performer: Pat Metheny.
    • ELEKTRA NONESUCH.

  • Johann Pachelbel

    Canon in D major

    Performer: Gabriela Montero. Music Arranger: Gabriela Montero.
    • WARNER CLASSICS.

  • Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov

    The Enchanted Kingdom: Prelude

    Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra. Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev.
    • Newton.

  • Johann Strauss II

    Die Fledermaus Quadrille, Op 363

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Willi Boskovsky.
    • DECCA.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - What am I?

Pachelbel's Canon.

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  • Thu 3 Apr 2014 09:00
    蜜芽传媒 Radio 3

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