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Friday - Sarah Walker with Sam Neill

With Sarah Walker. Five Reasons to Love the Film Scores of Hollywood's Emigre Composers; Artist of the Week: The Lindsay String Quartet, featured in Mozart's Clarinet Quintet, K581.

9am
A selection of music including '5 reasons to love... the film scores of Hollywood's 茅migr茅 composers'. Hollywood provided a refuge for many European composers from the seismic events that shook Europe in the years leading up to the Second World War, and a handful of them made a living writing film music for the studios there. Throughout the week Sarah explores classic scores by composers including Miklos Rozsa, Max Steiner and Erich Korngold.

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: listen to the music and see if you can trace the classical inspiration.

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the actor Sam Neill. Sam has starred in television series including Reilly, Ace of Spies, The Tudors and Peaky Blinders and in films ranging from The Hunt for Red October and The Piano to Dead Calm and Jurassic Park. Throughout the week Sam shares an eclectic selection of his favourite classical music, with choices including Robert Schumann and Philip Glass. He also discusses the music from his films and tells Sarah why Dvorak's Ninth Symphony reminds him of his father.

10.30am
Sarah chooses music that reflects highlights from the 2015 成人快手 Proms season.

11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Lindsay String Quartet, one of the foremost quartets of the 20th century. Led by the inspirational Peter Cropper, who died earlier this year, The Lindsays became famous for their informal chamber music concerts, which introduced a new generation to the string quartet repertoire.

Mozart
Clarinet Quintet in A major, K.581
Janet Hilton (clarinet)
Lindsay String Quartet.

3 hours

Last on

Fri 18 Sep 2015 09:00

Music Played

  • Jean鈥怞oseph Mouret

    Suite de Symphonies - Fanfares

    Performer: Hannes L盲ubin. Performer: Wolfgang L盲ubin. Performer: Bernhard L盲ubin. Performer: Simon Preston. Performer: Norbert Schmitt.
    • DG.
  • 脡lisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre

    Violin Sonata no.2 in D major

    Performer: Riccardo Minasi. Ensemble: Bizzarrie Armoniche.
    • 狈础脧痴贰.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Hear my prayer; O for the wings of a dove

    Performer: Mark Williams. Singer: Rachel Bennett. Choir: The Choir Of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Richard Marlow.
    • CHANDOS.
  • Giovanni Gabrieli

    Sonata pian' e forte

    Ensemble: His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts. Director: Peter Bassano.
    • ASV.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Elegie, Op.24

    Performer: Alban Gerhardt. Performer: C茅cile Licad.
    • HYPERION.
  • Alexander Borodin

    Polovtsian Dances (Prince Igor)

    Choir: Beecham Choral Society. Orchestra: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Thomas Beecham.
    • EMI.
  • Sam Neill's Choice No. 1

    • Witold Lutos艂awski

      Finale (Piano Concerto)

      Performer: Krystian Zimerman. Orchestra: 成人快手 Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Witold Lutos艂awski.
      • DG.
  • Sarah's Choice for Sam Neill

    • Sergey Prokofiev

      The Infernal Scene (Suite from Love for Three Oranges Op. 33bis)

      Orchestra: Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Andrew Litton.
      • BIS.
  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Violin Concerto in D major, RV 217

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola. Performer: Andrea Marcon. Orchestra: Venice Baroque Orchestra. Conductor: Andrea Marcon.
    • Vivaldi: Concertos - Carmignola/Venice Baroque Orchestra/Marcon.
    • Deutsche Grammaphon.
    • 10.
  • Francis Poulenc

    Concerto for organ, string orchestra and timpani

    Performer: Maurice Durufl茅. Orchestra: Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Fran莽aise. Conductor: Georges Pr锚tre.
    • EMI.
  • Herbert Howells

    The Lord is my shepherd (Hymnus paradisi)

    Singer: Heather Harper. Singer: Robert Tear. Choir: The Bach Choir. Choir: Choir of King鈥檚 College, Cambridge. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra. Conductor: Sir David Willcocks.
    • Howells: Hymnus Paradisi / Finzi: Dies Natalis: Willcocks/Finzi.
    • EMI.
    • 3.
  • Artists of the week: The Lindsay Quartet

    • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

      Clarinet Quintet, K.581

      Performer: Janet Hilton. Ensemble: Lindsay String Quartet.
      • ASV.
  • Ottorino Respighi

    The Birds

    Conductor: Claudio Scimone. Ensemble: I Solisti Veneti.
    • Apex.

Classical Roots

Answer: Polovtsian鈥疍ances from Prince Igor by Borodin

The music played:

Borodin/R.Wright/G.Forrest
Stranger in Paradise鈥
Tony Bennett (singer)
Ray Charles Singers (backing vocals)
Orchestra
Percy Faith (conductor)
RPM RECORDS/COLUMBIA

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  • Fri 18 Sep 2015 09:00

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