Friday - Sarah Walker with Maggie Aderin-Pocock
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Scherzos; Music in Time: works by Barbara Strozzi; Artist of the Week: violinist Nathan Milstein, featured in Dvorak's Violin Concerto.
9am
My favourite... scherzos. The title 'scherzo' derives from the Italian for 'joke', and many composers have found it suited to a particularly light hearted style of writing. Through the week Sarah chooses a handful of her favourites ranging from the capricious to the virtuosic, with examples by composers including Antonin Dvorak, Frederic Chopin, Madeleine Dring and Antonio Bazzini.
9.30am
Take part in today's music-related challenge: listen to the clues and identify the mystery person.
10am
Sarah's guest is the space scientist Dr Maggie Aderin-Pocock. Maggie specialises in satellite technology and has worked on projects including the Gemini Observatory, the James Webb space telescope and the European satellite ADM-Aeolus. She is also a public speaker, broadcaster and presenter of programmes including The Sky at Night, and is committed to inspiring the next generation of scientists. Maggie will be talking about her career, and her life-long obsession with space, and sharing a selection of her favourite classical music, every day at 10am.
10:30
Sarah places Music in Time as she travels back to the Baroque period to explore the works of Barbara Strozzi, a composer renowned for her remarkably poetic vocal music, which explored themes from everyday 17th century life.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is one of the great violinists of the 20th century, Nathan Milstein. Celebrated for his radiant tone, expressive ease and aristocratic poise, he was called "'the prince of the violin". These qualities are demonstrated throughout the week, in virtuoso concertos by Tchaikovsky and Dvorak, and in masterpieces of the violin repertoire including Beethoven's 'Spring Sonata', Bach's B minor Partita for solo violin and showpieces by Delibes and Chopin.
Dvorak
Violin Concerto
Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
William Steinberg (conductor).
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Music Played
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Alexander Kopylov
Polka in C major (Les Vendredis bk.2)
Ensemble: Vertavo Quartet.- SIMAX.
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Samuel Scheidt
Galliarda battaglia 脿 5
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall. -
MY FAVOURITE...SCHERZOS
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Josef Suk
Fantastic Scherzo
Orchestra: Czech Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.- DECCA.
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Henri Rabaud
Solo de concours, Op 10
Performer: Michael Collins. Performer: Michael McHale.- Chandos.
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Mily Alexeyevich Balakirev
Let all mortal flesh keep silence
Choir: Holst Singers. Conductor: Stephen Layton.- HYPERION.
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Joseph Haydn
Adagio in F major, H.18.9
Performer: Alfred Brendel.- DECCA.
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George Frideric Handel
Concerto Grosso in F major, Op 6 No 2
Ensemble: The English Concert. Director: Trevor Pinnock.- ARCHIV.
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The Lincolnshire Poacher
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Peter Pears. Performer: Benjamin Britten.- LONDON.
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The foggy, foggy dew
Music Arranger: Benjamin Britten. Performer: Benjamin Britten. Singer: Peter Pears.- DECCA.
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MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK'S CHOICE NO.1
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Hildegard von Bingen
O felix anima
Choir: Anonymous 4.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK'S CHOICE NO.2
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Modest Mussorgsky
The Oxcart/Bydlo (Pictures at an Exhibition)
Music Arranger: Stephen Roberts. Performer: Fine Arts Brass Ensemble.- NIMBUS.
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MAGGIE ADERIN-POCOCK'S CHOICE NO.3
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Edvard Grieg
Ave Maris Stella
Choir: Norwegian Soloists' Choir. Conductor: Grete Pedersen.
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Fr茅d茅ric Chopin
Nocturne in C minor, Op.48 No.1
Performer: Nelson Freire.- Decca.
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MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE
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Barbara Strozzi
Cuore che reprime alle lingua di manifestare il nome della sua cara
Singer: Christine Brandes. Ensemble: New York Baroque. Director: Eric Milnes.- DORIAN.
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Ralph Vaughan Williams
Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis
Orchestra: London Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Bryden Thomson.- Chandos.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: NATHAN MILSTEIN
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Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k
Violin Concerto in A minor
Performer: Nathan Milstein. Orchestra: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: William Steinberg.- EMI.
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Attilio Ariosti
Sorga pur l'opressa Roma
Singer: Filippo Mineccia. Ensemble: Ensemble Odyssee. Conductor: Andrea Friggi.- GLOSSA.
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Ludwig van Beethoven
Piano Sonata Op.31 No.2 'The Tempest'
Performer: Rudolf Buchbinder.- RCA RED SEAL.
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Mystery Person
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