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Thursday - Sarah Walker

With Sarah Walker. Gershwin: An American in Paris. Prokofiev: Romeo and Juliet (excerpts). Haydn: String Quartet in C. Monteverdi: Vespers (excerpt). Rose: Holiday for Strings.

With Sarah Walker. Sarah's Artist of the Week is the pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who was born in Karmoy, Norway in 1970, and studied at the Bergen Music Conservatory under the renowned Czech professor Jiri Hlinka. Andsnes cites Dinu Lipatti, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, Sviatoslav Richter, and Geza Anda among the pianists who have most inspired him. We hear him today in a Rachmaninov Piano Concerto

Also today, there's our regular Thursday brainteaser - spot the connection that links 4 pieces of music, Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet and a hymn of praise to the Virgin Mary from Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.

2 hours

Last on

Thu 7 Jul 2011 10:00

Music Played

  • George Gershwin

    An American in Paris

    Performers: New York Philharmonic Orchestra, Leonard Bernstein (conductor)

    • SONY 516234-2.
  • Sergey Prokofiev

    Romeo and Juliet: Juliet, the Young Girl; Montagues and Capulets

    Performers: Berlin Philharmonic, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor)

    • SONY MK 42662.
  • Joseph Haydn

    String Quartet in C major, Op.20 No.2

    Performers: The Lindsays

    • ASV CD DCA 1057.
  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Ave Maris Stella (Vespers, 1610)

    Performers: Concerto Palatino, Bach Collegium Japan, Masaaki Suzuki (director)

    • BIS-CD-1071/1072.
  • David Rose

    Holiday for Strings

    Performers: The New London Orchestra, Ronald Corp (conductor)

    • HYPERION CDA67067.
  • Artist of the Week: Leif Ove Andsnes

    • Sergey Rachmaninov

      Piano Concerto No.3 in D minor, Op.30

      Performers: Leif Ove Andsnes (piano), Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, Paavo Berglund (conductor)

      • EMI CDC 556350-2.

Broadcast

  • Thu 7 Jul 2011 10:00