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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Stuart Maconie

Essential Classics

With Sarah Walker. Includes 5 Reasons to Love Beecham Lollipops; Musical Challenge; Artist of the Week: flautist James Galway; Sarah's Essential Choice: Mendelssohn: Symphony No 3.

With Sarah Walker and her guest, the author and presenter Stuart Maconie.

9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love... Beecham Lollipops'. Throughout the week Sarah offers a selection of the British conductor Sir Thomas Beecham's lighter pieces which he offered as encores; pieces such as Berlioz's Ballet des Sylphes and Saint-Saëns's Bacchanale from Samson and Delilah, which he felt had more to offer than many other larger scale 'serious' classical works.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery composer.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is Stuart Maconie. A TV and radio presenter, journalist, columnist and author, Stuart is one of the UK's best-selling travel writers, co-hosts the Radcliffe and Maconie Show and presents The Freak Zone and The Freakier Zone on 6Music. Stuart will be sharing his favourite classical music every day at 10am.

10.30am
This week Sarah features recordings by the flautist James Galway, who established an international solo career after playing with orchestras such as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Berlin Philharmonic. We'll hear him in classics of the flute repertoire including Mozart's Concerto for Flute and Harp, K.299, Debussy's L'Après-midi d'un faune, Vivaldi's Il Gardellino concerto, as well as in chamber music by Nielsen and Poulenc.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Mendelssohn
Symphony No.3 'Scottish'
London Symphony Orchestra
Claudio Abbado.

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Wed 4 Feb 2015 09:00

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Widmung from Winter Round Dances, Op.13
Performer: Martin Roscoe.
- Dohnányi: The Complete Solo Piano Music, Vol. 1.
- Hyperion.
- CDA67871.
BEETHOVEN

Violin Sonata No.2 in A, Op.12/2
Performer: Josef Suk. Performer: Jan Panenka.
- SUPRAPHON.
5 Reasons to Love... Beecham's Lollipops
- Jean Sibelius
  
  Valse triste (Kuolema)
  Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
  
  EMI.
Thomas Tallis

Miserere nostri
Ensemble: Gabrieli Consort & Players. Director: Paul McCreesh.
- DG.
Antonín Dvořák

Slavonic Dance in C minor, Op 46 No 7
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Karel Šejna.
- SUPRAPHON.
Philippe Gaubert

Madrigal
Performer: James Galway.
- RCA.
Johannes Brahms

Academic Festival Overture
Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
- PHILIPS.
Johann Sebastian Bach

Matthauspassion (BWV.244), no.47; Erbarme dich [aria]
Singer: Michael Chance. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
- ARCHIV.
Stuart Maconie's Choice No.1
- Philip Glass
  
  Music in 12 Parts (opening of Part One)
  Performer: Philip Glass Ensemble. Director: Michael Riesman.
  
  NONESUCH.
Stuart Maconie's Choice No. 2
- Carlo Gesualdo
  
  Moro, lasso, al mio duolo
  Performer: Concerto Soave. Performer: Jean-Marc Aymes.
  
  ZIG ZAG TERRITORIES.
Edward Elgar

Froissart Overture, Op 19
Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis.
- BBC.
Artist of the Week: James Galway
- Carl Nielsen
  
  Wind Quintet, Op.43 for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon & french horn
  Performer: Björn Fosdal. Performer: Bjørn Carl Nielsen. Performer: Niels Thomsen. Performer: James Galway. Performer: Jens Tofte-Hansen.
  
  RCA.
Franz Schubert

Die Mainacht, D. 194
Performer: Margaret Price (soprano). Performer: Graham Johnson (piano).
- HYPERION.
Franz Schubert

Die Mainacht
Performer: Margaret Price (soprano). Performer: Graham Johnson (piano).
Essential Choice
- Felix Mendelssohn
  
  Symphony No.3 ‘Scottish’
  Conductor: Claudio Abbado. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.
  
  DG.
Joseph Haydn

Piano Sonata in C, Hob.XVI:48
Performer: Alfred Brendel.
- PHILIPS.