Tuesday - Sarah Walker, plus Rob Cowan with Philippa Gregory
With Sarah Walker. Including Five Reasons to Love Grieg Songs; Musical challenge; Proms Artist of the Week: flute player Emily Beynon, featured in Amy Beach's Theme and Variations.
9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... Grieg songs.' Sarah dips into Grieg's collection of songs and showcases his best lyrical offerings. Throughout the week she explores their melodic beauty, rustic atmosphere and deep connection to nature.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.
10am
Throughout the week Rob talks to the historian and writer Philippa Gregory. Philippa is an international best-selling author who shot to fame with her award-winning novel The Other Boleyn Girl, which was turned into a major Hollywood film. Her novels tell the stories of the figures behind the events that have shaped the course of history, with settings ranging from the Tudor court to 18th-century Bristol at the height of the slave trade. Her series of books on the Wars of the Roses was adapted into the popular 成人快手 series The White Queen. Philippa will be sharing a selection of her favourite classical music every day at 10am.
10.30am
Sarah's featured Proms Artist of the Week is the Welsh flautist Emily Beynon. Beynon is one of the leading flautists of her generation and will perform Nielsen's Flute Concerto at the 成人快手 Proms this week. Sarah explores Beynon's recordings throughout the week, showcasing works ranging from classics of the flute repertoire including Mozart's Flute Concerto No.1, K.313 and the Poulenc Sonata, to less well-known gems such as Bax's Sonata for flute and harp and Amy Beach's Theme and Variations.
Beach
Theme and Variations
Emily Beynon (flute)
Henk Rubingh (violin)
Marijn Mijnders (violin)
Roland Kramer (viola)
Daniel Esser (cello).
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Music Played
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Eine kleine Gigue, K 574
Performer: Leon McCawley.- AVIE.
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Felix Mendelssohn
Overture for wind instruments, Op 24
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Claudio Abbado.- DG.
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5 reasons to love...Grieg Songs
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Edvard Grieg
Last Spring, Op 33 No 2
Singer: Solveig Kringelborn. Orchestra: Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gennady Nikolayevich Rozhdestvensky.- CHANDOS.
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Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Allegro (Les Vendredis)
Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.- SIMAX.
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Scherzo capriccioso, Op.66
Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Rudolf Kempe.- TESTAMENT.
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Domenico Scarlatti
Sonata in G major for viola d'amore and harpsichord, K 91
Performer: Valerio Losito. Performer: Andrea Coen.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No 21 in E minor
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- DECCA.
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PHILIPPA GREGORY'S CHOICE NO.1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Soave sia il vento (Cos矛 fan tutte)
Singer: Kiri Te Kanawa. Singer: Frederica von Stade. Singer: Jules Bastin. Orchestra: Orchestra Philharmonique de Strasbourg. Conductor: Alain Lombard.- ERATO.
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PHILIPPA GREGORY'S CHOICE NO.2
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Dies irae; Tuba mirum (Requiem)
Singer: Sandrine Piau. Singer: Sara Mingardo. Singer: Werner G眉ra.- 狈础脧痴贰.
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PHILIPPA GREGORY'S CHOICE NO.3
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
III. Rondo (Piano Concerto in A, K488)
Performer: Clifford Curzon. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Istv谩n Kert茅sz.- DECCA.
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PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: EMILY BEYNON
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Amy Beach
Theme and Variations, Op 80
Performer: Emily Beynon. Performer: Henk Rubingh. Performer: Marijn Mijnders. Performer: Roland Kramer. Performer: Daniel Esser.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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Johann Christoph Bach
Der Mensch, vom Weibe geboren
Choir: Vox Luminis. Conductor: Lionel Meunier.- Motets of the Bach Family.
- Ricercar.
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Recording Rewind
The music played:
Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.1 in G minor
Budapest Festival Orchestra聽
Ivan Fischer (conductor)
DECCA
Broadcast
- Tue 25 Aug 2015 09:00成人快手 Radio 3