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Monday - Sarah Walker

Essential Classics

With Sarah Walker, and her guest, the nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gabrieli in Venice, London Brass, WARNER APEX 0927408232; and at 9.30 our daily brainteaser.

10am
'Proms Artist Recommends'. Each day an artist performing later today in the BBC Proms recommends three musical works, and on Essential Classics we'll play one of those pieces around 10am.

10.30am
This week is National Countryside Week, and Sarah's guest is the award-winning nature writer and broadcaster Richard Mabey. Richard is the author of some thirty books, including: Food for Free; Weeds - The Story of Outlaw Plants; Flora Britannica; and Gilbert White, which won the Whitbread Biography Award. His memoir Nature Cure, which describes how reconnecting with the wild helped him conquer depression, was short-listed for three major literary awards. He writes for the Guardian, New Statesman and Granta, and contributes frequently to BBC radio. He has also written a personal column in BBC Wildlife Magazine since 1986.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Verdi: String Quartet
Julliard Quartet

11.25
Bruch: Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor, Op. 26
Julia Fischer (violin)
Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra
David Zinman (conductor).

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Wilhelm Peterson‐Berger

Frosoblomster: Book I, Op. 16 No. 3: Lawn Tennis

Performers: Noriko Ogawa (piano)
- BIS BIS-CD-925.
9.03: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
- Giovanni Gabrieli
  
  Sonata pian' e forte
  
  Performers: London Brass
  
  WARNER APEX 0927408232.
Joseph Haydn

Keyboard Sonata in A, Hob. XVI: 30

Performers: Evgeny Kissin (piano)
- SONY SK64 538.
Johan Svendsen

Norwegian Artists' Carnival, Op. 14

Performers: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi (conductor)
- CHANDOS CHAN 10766.
9.30am
- Today's Brainteaser
  
  Who's Dancing?
  
  Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
Burgmuller

Duo, Op. 15

Performers: Michael Collins (clarinet), Michael McHale (piano)
- CHANDOS CHAN10637.
9.57: Proms Artists Recommend - Daniel Barenboim
- Ludwig van Beethoven
  
  Symphony No. 6 'Pastoral'
  
  Performers: Bavarian State Orchestra, Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
  
  ORFEO C 600 031 B.
10.30: Richard Mabey's Choices
- Anon (Philidor and Cassel Manuscripts)
  
  Concert Donné A Louis XIII En 1627: Les Suisses; Air Pour Les Violons; Les Nimphes De La G
  
  Performers: Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall (conductor)
  
  ALIA VOX AV9824.
Pierre Guédron

A Paris sur petit pont

Performers: La Poeme Harmonique, Vincent Dumestre (director)
- ALPHA 019.
Edvard Grieg

Lyric Pieces, Book III, Op. 43 No. 2: Lonely Wanderer

Performers: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano)
- HMV 5 74363 2.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
- Giuseppe Verdi
  
  String Quartet
  
  Performers: Julliard Quartet
  
  SONY SK 48 193.
Josquin des Prez

Qui habitat

Performers: Huelgas Ensemble, Paul Van Nevel (conductor)
- SONY SK 66261.
Sergey Rachmaninov

Prelude in D minor, Op. 23 No. 3

Performers: Steven Osborne (piano)
- HYPERION CDA67700.
11.35am
- Max Bruch
  
  Violin Concerto No. 1 in G minor
  
  Performers: Julia Fischer (violin), Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, David Zinman (conductor)
  
  DECCA 478 3544.