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Monday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents. In the Comedy Classics season, she talks to guest Charlie Higson about his favourite classical music.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, and in the second of the new Comedy Classics series at 9 o'clock, she talks to special guest Charlie Higson about his favourite classical music. Higson is an actor, comedian and author and is probably best known for ³ÉÈË¿ìÊÖ TV's "The Fast Show" in which he starred and for which he was one of the main writers. He is now busy building up a younger audience with his series of novels about a young James Bond.

3 hours

Last on

Mon 28 Mar 2011 07:00

Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Ballet suite no. 2 - Finale (Galop) (ed. Atovmyan)

    Performer: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.557208.
  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony (Op.8`4) in F major

    Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz, director

    • CARUS 83.307.
  • Frédéric Chopin - Waltz in C sharp minor Op.64 No. 2

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Iolanthe Overture

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 434 916-2.
  • Antonio Lolli

    Concerto for violin and orchestra in C major: 1st mvt Andante

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon (director)

    • ARCHIV 477 6606.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano: No. 5 - Menuet

    Performer: Kathryn Stott (piano)

    • SONY 88697573852.
  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma: Casta Diva

    Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) Performer: Orchestra La Scintilla Performer: Adam Fischer (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2558.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in g minor BWV861 (WTC bk2)

    Performer: Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907431.32.
  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the bare mountain (ed. Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Performer: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Mariss Jansons (conductor)

    • EMI 3 50824 2.
  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • UCJ 179 5732.
  • Giuseppe Maria Jacchini

    Sonata a 5 in D major

    Performer: Alison Balsom (trumpet) Performer: The Parley of Instruments Performer: Peter Holman (organ)

    • HYPERION CDA67359.
  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3 No. 2

    Performer: Steven Osborne (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67700.
  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Forza del destino - Overture

    Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 410 141-2.
  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs - no.3; Une Barque sur l'ocean

    Performer: Artur Pizzaro (piano)

    • LINN CKD290.
  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante - Act 2 sc.3; E vivo ancore ... Scherza infida

    Performer: Joyce DiDonato (soprano) Performer: Les Talens Lyriques Performer: Christophe Rousset (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 519038.
  • Comedy Classics: Charlie Higson's choices

    • Edward Elgar

      Cello Concerto: Mvt I

      Performer: Jacqueline Du Pre (cello) Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • CBS MK 76529.
    • Michael Nyman

      The Piano: The heart asks pleasure first

      Performer: Michael Nyman (piano/director) Performer: Michael Nyman Band

      • MNRCD107.
    • Granville Bantock

      Sappho: prelude

      Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Vernon Handley (conductor)

      • Hyperion CDA66899.
    • Malcolm Arnold

      Symphony No 5: Mvt III – con fuoco

      Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 9385.
    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

      Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

      • Decca 467 047-2.

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