Friday - Sarah Walker with Wasfi Kani
With Sarah Walker. Includes Musical challenge; Music on Location: Haydn's Symphony No 104; Artist of the Week: Edward Gardner, featured conducting Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part 3).
9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.
9.30
Take part in today's musical challenge: two pieces of music are played together - can you identify them?
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the opera impresario Wasfi Kani. Wasfi is one of the UK's leading opera organisers and fundraisers, and the founder of Pimlico Opera and Grange Park Opera. After studying music at the University of Oxford she worked as a computer programmer in the City, before realising she wanted to return to music. She founded Pimlico Opera with the aim of using music and drama for the public good, and it was one of the first opera companies to specialise in performing in unusual places, such as hospitals, banks and prisons. Grange Park Opera has become one of the UK's most successful summer opera companies and is currently enjoying its first season at a brand-new theatre in Surrey. As a pianist, violinist and conductor, much of the music that Wasfi has chosen for the week is music that she's played herself, including music by Schubert, Richard Strauss and Mozart.
10.30
Music on Location: London
Sarah explores the last of Haydn's 'London Symphonies', one of the twelve symphonies written for the composer's celebrated and lucrative visits to the city.
11am
Sarah's featured artist is one of Britain's most celebrated living conductors, Edward Gardner. Gardner is currently Chief Conductor of the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, but has spent much of his career in the opera house. From 2007-2015 he was Music Director at English National Opera and during this time he won the RPS Conductor of the Year Award and an Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Opera. His big breakthrough came when he stood in at short notice for a r茅p茅titeur at the Salzburg Festival, and from there he went on to be Music Director of Glyndebourne Touring Opera. He regularly works with the National Youth Orchestra and the 蜜芽传媒 Symphony Orchestra (蜜芽传媒SO) with whom he led the Last Night of the Proms in 2011. Sarah's chosen four of Gardner's recordings with the 蜜芽传媒SO: recordings of Walton's Symphony No.1, Szymanowski's Symphony No. 4 'Symphonie Concertante' (with pianist Louis Lortie), Britten's Violin Concerto with Tasmin Little, and Lutos艂awski's song cycle Chantefleurs et Chantefables with soprano Lucy Crowe. She's also chosen his recording of Schoenberg's Gurrelieder (Part III) with an array of musicians drawn from Norway, Sweden and the UK.
Schoenberg
Gurrelieder: Part III
Stuart Skelton鈥�(tenor)
Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke (tenor)
James Creswell (bass)
Thomas Allen鈥�(speaker)
Bergen Philharmonic Choir
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Students from the Royal Northern College of Music
Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra
Musicians from the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra
Edward Gardner (conductor).
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Music Played
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Jean鈥怋aptiste Lully
Phaeton: Overture
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- ERATO.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Pha毛ton, Op 39
Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.- DECCA.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Waltz-Scherzo No. 1 in A major, Op.7
Performer: Mikhail Pletnev.- MELODIYA.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Hor che'l ciel et la terra (8th Book of Madrigals)
Ensemble: Concerto Italiano. Conductor: Rinaldo Alessandrini.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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Lili Boulanger
Nocturne
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Richard Wagner
Siegfried Idyll
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.- PHILIPS.
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Maurice Ravel
Vocalise-etude en forme de Habanera
Singer: Natalie Dessay. Orchestra: Berlin Symphony Orchestra.- EMI.
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Wasfi Kani's first choice
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Anthony Bolton
The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World: The Temple of Artemis at Ephesos
Orchestra: City of London Sinfonia. Conductor: Michael Collins.
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Wasfi Kani's second choice
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Giacomo Puccini
Vissi d'arte (Tosca)
Singer: Angela Gheorghiu. Orchestra: Royal Opera Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Antonio Pappano.- The Opera Album 2002.
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Sarah's choice for Wasfi Kani
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Robert Schumann
Abschied (Waldszenen, Op 82 No 9)
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- DECCA.
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Niccol貌 Paganini
Variations on the theme 鈥楧al tuo stellato soglio鈥� from Mos猫 in Egitto by Rossini (鈥楳oses Fantasy鈥�)
Performer: Alisa Weilerstein. Performer: Vivian Hornik Weilerstein.- EMI.
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Music on Location: London
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Joseph Haydn
Symphony No 104 in D major, 'London'
Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
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Gabriel Faur茅
Cantique de Jean Racine, Op.11
Choir: Choir of St John鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Performer: Stephen Cleobury. Conductor: George Guest.- DECCA.
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Proms Artist of the Week: Edward Gardner
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Arnold Schoenberg
Gurrelieder: Part III
Singer: Stuart Skelton. Singer: Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke. Singer: James Creswell. Narrator: Sir Thomas Allen. Choir: Bergen Filharmoniske Kor. Choir: Choir Of Collegium Musicum. Choir: Edvard Grieg Kor. Choir: Orphei Dr盲ngar. Director: H氓kon Matti Skrede. Orchestra: Royal Northern College of Music. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- CHANDOS.
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Gustav Mahler
Hans und Grete (Sechs fr眉he Lieder)
Orchestrator: Luciano Berio. Performer: Roderick Williams. Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Edward Gardner.- Chandos.
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