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Thursday - Sarah Walker

Essential Classics

A sequence of great music in classic recordings, with Sarah Walker and her guest Richard Mabey, the nature writer and broadcaster.

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

Beethoven: String Quartet, Op. 127
Takacs Quartet

11.40
Saint-Saens: Cello Concerto No. 2
Lynn Harrell (cello)
Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra
Riccardo Chailly (conductor).

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String Symphony No. 6 in E flat major

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- HYPERION CDA66561/3.
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- BIS-SACD-1580.
9.24: Sarah's Essential CD of the Week
- Marini
  
  Sonata in Echo
  
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  WARNER APEX 0927408232.
9.30am
- Today's Brainteaser
  
  Who am I?
  
  Performers: The answer will appear at the bottom of this page at 12pm.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Furchte dich, bin ich bei dir, BWV 288

Performers: Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)
- SOLI DEO GLORIA SDG716.
Carl Maria von Weber

Invitation to the Dance, Op. 65

Performers: Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Paul Paray (conductor)
- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE 434 336-2.
Percy Grainger

Scotch Strathspey and Reel

Performers: Marc-Andre-Hamelin (piano)
- HYPERION CDA66884.
10am: Proms Artists Recommend - Juanjo Mena
- Anton Bruckner
  
  Symphony No. 7: II. Adagio
  
  Performers: Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, Sergiu Celibidache (conductor)
  
  EMI 5 56695 2.
10.30: Richard Mabey's Choices
- George Frideric Handel
  
  Messiah, Part II: Surely he hath borne our griefs; And with His stripes we are healed; All
  
  Performers: Choir of New College, Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, Edward Higginbottom (conductor)
  
  NAXOS 8.570131-32.
Golijov

Ayre: Wa Habibi (My Love)

Performers: Dawn Upshaw (soprano), The Andalucian Dogs
- DG 477 5414.
Roussel

Joueurs pour flute, Op. 27: Tityre

Performers: Kenneth Smith (flute), Paul Rhodes (piano)
- DIVINE ART dda35066.
11am: Sarah's Essential Choice
- Ludwig van Beethoven
  
  String Quartet in E flat, Op. 127
  
  Performers: Takacs Quartet
  
  DECCA 470 849-2.
Jean‐Philippe Rameau

Fanfarinette

Performers: John Kitchen (harpsichord)
- DELPHIAN DCD34112.
11.41am
- Camille Saint‐Saëns
  
  Cello Concerto No. 2 in D minor, Op. 119
  
  Performers: Lynn Harrell (cello), Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly (conductor)
  
  DECCA 475 465-2.