Tuesday - Sarah Walker with James Palumbo
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Ballet Music; Challenge: Mystery Composer; Artist of the Week: trumpeter Alison Balsom; Sarah's Essential Choice: Debussy: Jeux.
With Sarah Walker and her guest, the entrepreneur James Palumbo.
9am
A selection of music including '5 Reasons to Love - ballet music'. Throughout the week Sarah makes the case for ballet music and dips into scores from some of the masters of the art form including Tchaikovsky, Rameau and Prokofiev.
9.30am
Mystery Composer
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery composer.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the entrepreneur James Palumbo. James co-founded the Ministry of Sound nightclub in 1991. The business has since branched out into a number of areas, becoming a global brand and the largest independent record company in the world. James was recently made a life peer, taking the title Baron Palumbo of Southwark. James shares a selection of his favourite classical music with Sarah.
10.30am
This week's featured artist is the trumpeter Alison Balsom.
11am
Debussy
Jeux
London Symphony Orchestra
Valery Gergiev (conductor).
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Music Played
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Robert Schumann
Allegro in B minor, Op 8
Performer: Maurizio Pollini.- Deutsche Grammophon.
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Robert Schumann
Manfred - incidental music (Op.115), Overture
Orchestra: Los Angeles Philharmonic. Conductor: Carlo Maria Giulini.- Giulini in America: Los Angeles Philharmonic/Giulini.
- Deutsche Grammaphon.
- 5.
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Hermann Raupach
Alsesta: March
Conductor: I Barocchisti. Conductor: Diego Fasolis.- DECCA.
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5 Reasons to Love... Ballet Scores
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Peter Ludwig Hertel
Clog Dance (La fille mal gard茅e)
Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: John Lanchbery.- EMI.
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Nikolai Girshevich Kapustin
Variations Op.41
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- HYPERION.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Leonore Overture No. 2
Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Orchestra: Chamber Orchestra of Europe.- Teldec.
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Henry Purcell
If music be the food of love
Singer: Andreas Scholl. Orchestra: Accademia Bizantina. Conductor: Stefano Montanari.- Henry Purcell, O Solitude: Andreas Scholl/Accademia Bizantina.
- Decca.
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Erik Satie
Trois Morceaux en Forme De Poire 鈥 Mani猫re de commencement; Prolongation du m锚me
Performer: Alexandre Tharaud. Performer: Eric Lesage.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Jean鈥怞oseph de Mondonville
Sonate en symphonie in F major Op.3 no.2
Ensemble: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.- ARCHIV.
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Jacques Arcadelt
Tutto 鈥榣 di piango
Ensemble: The Hilliard Ensemble.- ECM.
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Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns
Africa 鈥揊antaisie for piano and orchestra Op.89
Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Performer: Sir Stephen Hough. Conductor: Sakari Oramo.- HYPERION.
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James Palumbo's Choice No. 1
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Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
The Sleeping Beauty: Act I, No. 9 Finale
Conductor: Mikhail Pletnev. Orchestra: Russian National Orchestra.- DG.
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James Palumbo's Choice No. 2
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Richard Wagner
Das Rheingold (conclusion)
Singer: Helga Dernesch. Singer: Theo Adam. Singer: Wolfgang Windgassen. Singer: Dorothea Siebert. Singer: Ruth Hesse. Conductor: Karl B枚hm. Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra.- Philips.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni, Act II: 鈥淒eh Vieni a la Finestra鈥
Singer: Johannes Weisser. Conductor: Ren茅 Jacobs. Orchestra: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra.- Harmonia Mundi.
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James Palumbo's Choice No. 3
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Don Giovanni, Act II: 鈥淒eh Vieni a la Finestra鈥
Conductor: Vladimir Jurowski. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. Singer: Gerald Finley.- EMI.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
3 Waltzes Op.34 for piano: no.3 in F major
Performer: Stephen Kovacevich.- Chopin - Valses; Ravel - Valses nobles et sentimentales; Stephen Kovacevich.
- EMI CLASSICS.
- 9.
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Artist of the Week: Alison Balsom
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Joseph Haydn
Trumpet Concerto in E flat major
Performer: Alison Balsom. Orchestra: The Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen.- EMI.
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Cyril Scott
Early one Morning
Performer: Howard Shelley. Conductor: Martyn Brabbins. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic.- CHANDOS.
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Peter Warlock
An Old Song
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Adrian Boult.- LYRITA.
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Essential Choice
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Claude Debussy
Jeux
Conductor: Valery Gergiev. Performer: London Symphony Orchestra.- LSO LIVE.
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Artist of the Week: Alison Balsom
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Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck
Variations on 鈥楳ein junges Leben hat ein End鈥
Performer: Alison Balsom. Performer: Quentin Thomas.- EMI.
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Musical Challenge
Clues:
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I was a renowned keyboard player who gave my first public concert aged 5 and Liszt once called me the greatest organist in the world.
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One of my pupils, Gabriel Faur茅, once said I was 鈥榯he closest France has come to producing another Mozart鈥.
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I鈥檓 probably best known for my 鈥榞rand zoological fantasy鈥 which I wrote for friends but is now one of the cornerstones of classical music.听
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The answer:
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Saint-Saens
Broadcast
- Tue 11 Nov 2014 09:00成人快手 Radio 3