Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Marina Lewycka
With Sarah Walker. Including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet and Sarah's guest, the author Marina Lewycka.
with Sarah Walker and her guest, the novelist, Marina Lewycka.
9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Liszt at the Opera - Louis Lortie, CHANDOS. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.
10am
Artists of the Week: Purcell Quartet
10.30am
Sarah's guest this week is the author Marina Lewycka. Her debut novel, A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian, won the 2005 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing at the Hay Literary Festival, and was shortlisted for the 2005 Orange Prize for Fiction. It has been translated into thirty-five languages. Marina's other novels include We Are All Made of Glue, Various Pets Alive and Dead, and Two Caravans, which was shortlisted for the 2008 Orwell Prize for political writing. In 2009, she donated the short story The Importance of Having Warm Feet to Oxfam's Ox-Tales project, as well as another short story, Business Philosophy, to the Amnesty International anthology, Freedom: Short Stories Celebrating the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. In addition to her fiction, Lewycka has written a number of books giving practical advice for carers of elderly people, published by the charity Age Concern.
11am
Sarah's Essential Choice
Tchaikovsky
Symphony No. 2 in C minor, Op. 17 'Little Russian'
London Symphony Orchestra
Antal Dorati (conductor).
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Music Played
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Alonso Mudarra
Fantasia in the style of Ludovico's Harp (transcribed for piano by Rodrigo)
Performer: Artur Pizarro.- NAXOS.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Dance of the Tumblers (The Snow Maiden)
Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- EMI.
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Richard Wagner
Isoldes Liebestod from 'Tristan und Isolde' S447
Performer: Louis Lortie.- CHANDOS.
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Arnold Bax
Tintagel
Orchestra: Ulster Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- CHANDOS.
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anon
Today's Brainteaser - Endings
Conductor: anon. -
Henry Purcell
Sonata for trumpet and strings in D major Z.850
Performer: Mark Bennett. Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Joaqu铆n Rodrigo
Diferencias sobre El Canto del Caballero & 3 Pavanes (16th century pieces)
Performer: Artur Pizarro.- NAXOS.
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Hector Berlioz
Le corsaire
Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.- DECCA.
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Dieterich Buxtehude
Ich habe Lust abzuscheiden, BuxWV77
Singer: Suzie LeBlanc. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Peter Harvey. Ensemble: Purcell Quartet. -
Frederick Delius
Summer Night on the River
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- CHANDOS.
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Henry Purcell
Pavane in A minor, Z.749
Ensemble: Purcell Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Arcangelo Corelli
Trio sonata in A major Op.3`12
Ensemble: The Purcell Quartet.- HYPERION.
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Dmitry Shostakovich
Barrel-organ Waltz from The Gadfly
Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Performer: Neville Marriner.- EMI.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Waltz in B minor op 69 no 2
Performer: Arthur Rubinstein.- Naxos.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
3rd mvmt - Horn concerto no 4 in E flat K495
Performer: David Pyatt. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields. Conductor: Neville Marriner.- Erato.
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Modest Mussorgsky
Pictures at an Exhibition (Conclusion)
Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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Mendelssohn arr Cassidy
On Wings of Song op 34 no 2
Performer: Brodsky Quartet.- CHANDOS.
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Symphony No.2 in C minor, Op.17 'Little Russian'
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- MERCURY.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata in G major, K.283
Performer: Mitsuko Uchida.- PHILIPS.
Today's Brainteaser Answer - Endings
The music played:
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Mendelssohn
Midsummer Night鈥檚 Dream
London Symphony Orchestra
Peter Maag (conductor)
DECCA 466 990 2听听
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Mozart
Magic Flute Overture
Dresden Staatskapelle
Sir Colin Davis
RCA 74321 566982听听
Berlioz
Le Corsair
Montreal Symphony Orchestra
Charles Dutoit (conductor)
DECCA 452 064 2听听
Broadcast
- Wed 28 May 2014 09:00成人快手 Radio 3