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Wednesday - Sarah Walker

Essential Classics

With Sarah Walker. Including Artist of the Week: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra in Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez; Sarah's Essential Choice: Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.

9am
A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Le Voyage Magnifique - Schubert Impromptus performed by Maria João Pires.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra (Rodrigo: Concierto de Aranjuez with guitarist Göran Söllscher).

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is biographer Claire Tomalin, who introduces her essential pieces of classical music. Today she reveals music which brightens her day and a piece which makes her laugh.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice.

Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra,
Fritz Reiner (conductor).
RCA 09026 61250-2.

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Wed 8 Feb 2012 09:00

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Johann Strauss II - Vergnügungszug Polka, Op.281 [Pleasure Train Polka]

Performers: Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
Antonio Vivaldi

Violin Concerto in E flat 'La tempesta di Mare" [Op.8 No.5, RV 253]

Performers: Academy of Ancient Music, Andrew Manze (director)
- HARMONIA MUNDI HMX 2907230.
9.12: Sarah's CD of the Week
- Franz Schubert
  
  Klavierstücke, D.946 No.2
  
  Performers: Maria João Pires (piano)
  
  DG 457 550-2.
Jarvis Sheppard

In pace in idipsum

Performers: The Gabrieli Consort, Paul McCreesh (director)
- DG 477 6605.
9.33am
- Scheidt
  
  Galliard Battaglia of 1621
  
  Performers: Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall (director)
  
  ALIA VOX AV 9815.
9.37: Artist of the Week - The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Johan Svendsen
  
  Romance in G major, Op.26
  
  Performers: Gil Shaham (violin), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  
  DG 449 923-2.
Sergei Prokofiev

Lieutenant Kijé, Op.60

Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Claudio Abbado (conductor)
- DG 419 603-2.
10.06am: Artist of the Week - The Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- Joaquín Rodrigo
  
  Concierto de Aranjuez
  
  Performers: Göran Söllscher (guitar), Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
  
  DG 429 232-2.
10.30: Claire Tomalin's Choice
- George Frideric Handel
  
  "The trumpet's loud clangour" (Ode to St Cecilia's Day, HWV76)
  
  Performers: James Gilchrist (tenor), Choir of the King’s Consort, The King’s Consort, Robert King (conductor)
  
  HYPERION CDA 67463.
10.41: Claire Tomalin's Choice
- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
  
  Le nozze di Figaro, Act II finale [No.16]
  
  Performers: Count: Simon Keenlyside (baritone), Countess: Véronique Gens (soprano), Figaro: Lorenzo Regazzo (bass), Susanna: Patricia Ciofi (soprano), Marcellina: Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Basilio: Kobie van Rensburg (tenor), Bartolo & Antonio: Antonio Abete (bass), Concerto Köln, René Jacobs (director)
  
  HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901818.20.
Frédéric Chopin

Etude in G flat, Op.29 No.9 'Butterfly'

Performers: Louis Lortie (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN8482.
11.05am: Sarah's Essential Choice
- Maurice Ravel
  
  Rapsodie espagnole
  
  Performers: Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Fritz Reiner (conductor)
  
  RCA 09026 61250-2.
Dmitry Shostakovich

Prelude and Fugue No. 7 in A major (from the 24 Preludes and Fugues, Op.87)

Performers: Vladimir Ashkenazy (piano)
- DECCA 466 066-2.
11.27am
- Felix Mendelssohn
  
  Symphony No.5, Op.107 'Reformation'
  
  Performers: Staatskapelle Dresden, Colin Davis (conductor)
  
  PROFIL PH 05048.