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Thursday - Sarah Walker

Essential Classics

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures And Orchestral Works and Essential Choice: Balakirev: Piano Concerto No 2.

9am: A selection of music including the Essential CD of the Week: Russian Overtures And Orchestral Works played by the Russian National Orchestra/Mikhail Pletnev. 9:30am: A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein. 10.30am: This week Sarah's guest is Stephen Bayley who played a major role in the foundation of the Design Museum. Author, critic, columnist, broadcaster and curator, Stephen is an expert commentator on matters relating to style, taste and contemporary design. His books and journalism, on subjects as diverse as the Albert Memorial, Commerce and Culture, Sex: a cultural history, Cars, and Woman as Design, have changed the way the world thinks about design. As well as talking about music, with the Olympic Games soon to begin, they'll also be discussing a new exhibition opening at the Design Museum: Sports vs Design. 11am: Sarah's Essential Choice. Balakirev: Piano Concerto No.2. Malcolm Binns (piano), English Northern Philharmonia/David Lloyd-Jones.

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Thu 19 Jul 2012 09:00

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Louis Moreau Gottschalk

Polka in B flat

Performers: Philip Martin (piano)
- HYPERION CDS444518.
9.02: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
- Alexander Glazunov
  
  Ouverture solennelle, Op. 73
  
  Performers: Russian National Orchestra, Mikhail Pletnev (conductor)
  
  NEWTON CLASSICS 8802037.
C.P.E. Bach

Rondo in D minor Wq.62 / 19

Performers: Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
- DG 479 0356.
9.14:
- Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
  
  Capriccio Italien Op. 45
  
  Performers: RCA Victor Symphony Orchestra, Kiril Kondrashin (conductor)
  
  RCA LIVING STEREO 63302.
9.31:
- Antonín Dvořák
  
  Five bagatelles for string trio and harmonium - Allegretto scherzando
  
  Performers: Domus
  
  VIRGIN 61904.
Jacobus Clemens non Papa

O Maria Vernans Rosa

Performers: The Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG 701.
9.43: Artist of the Week - Leonard Bernstein
- George Gershwin
  
  Rhapsody in Blue
  
  Performers: Leonard Bernstein (piano / director), Columbia Symphony Orchestra
  
  SONY 63086.
Ludwig van Beethoven

Bagatelle in A minor 'Fur Elise' WoO59

Performers: Alfred Brendel (piano)
- PHILIPS 4122272.
10.06:
- Sergei Prokofiev
  
  Peter and the Wolf
  
  Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor and narrator)
  
  CBS 37765.
10.30: Stephen Bayley's Choices
- Johann Sebastian Bach
  
  Cantata BWV170 'Vergnügte Ruh, beliebte Seelenlust' – Aria
  
  Performers: Andreas Scholl (counter tenor), Ghent Collegium Vocale Orchestra, Philippe Herreweghe (conductor)
  
  HARMONIA MUNDI HMC 901644.
Giacomo Puccini

"E lucevan le stelle" (Tosca)

Performers: Cavaradossi: Giuseppe di Stefano (tenor), Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala, Victor de Sabata (conductor)
- EMI 5856442.
Dieterich Buxtehude

Sonata VII BuxWV258

Performers: The Purcell Quartet
- CHANDOS CHAN 0766.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
- Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
  
  Piano Concerto No. 2
  
  Performers: Malcolm Binns (piano), English Northern Philharmonia, David Lloyd-Jones (conductor)
  
  HYPERION CDA66640.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Serenade in C minor K.388

Performers: Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
- DG 4714422.