Monday - Sarah Walker with Chris Riddell
With Sarah Walker. Including My Favourite Dowland Songs; Music of the troubadours and trouveres; Artist of the Week: pianist Marc-Andre Hamelin, featured in Schumann's Waldszenen.
9am
My favourite... Dowland Songs. Throughout the week Sarah dips into the songbooks of John Dowland, sharing a selection ranging from Fine knacks for ladies (which offers a fascinating glimpse into the life of an Elizabethan pedlar), to the melodious and romantic Come again sweet love from Dowland's First Book of Songs, which was published in 1597.
9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge and identify the place associated with a well-known work.
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the illustrator, writer and Children's Laureate Chris Riddell. Chris has enjoyed critical acclaim for his illustrated books for children, which include the bestselling Ottoline books and The Emperor of Absurdia. He has won the prestigious Kate Greenaway Medal twice for his illustrations, in 2002, for Pirate Diary and in 2004 for Jonathan Swift's Gulliver and also won the Costa Children's Book Award for Goth Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse in 2013. Chris has worked with collaborators including Paul Stewart on the Muddle Earth, Edge Chronicles and Wyrmweald series and Neil Gaiman on The Graveyard Book, The Sleeper and the Spindle, and Fortunately the Milk. In addition to his children's books, Chris is a renowned political cartoonist whose work appears in The Observer, The Literary Review and The New Statesman. Chris will be sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Philip Glass, Debussy and Gorecki, and sketching along with Sarah in the studio, every day at 10am.
10.30am
Music in Time: Medieval
Sarah places Music in Time, focusing on the music of the Troubadours and Trouv猫res, aristocratic poet-composers who performed and composed in France in the 12th and 13th centuries.
11am
Sarah's artist of the week is the Canadian pianist Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin. Sarah shares his recordings of piano classics ranging from the fleeting images of Schumann's Waldszenen and Janacek's On an Overgrown Path to the highly structured sonatas of Mozart and Haydn, as well as sampling his own composition: Etudes in all the minor keys.
Schumann
Waldszenen, Op. 82
Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin (piano).
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN
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Ferruccio Busoni
Prologo, BV279
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- HYPERION.
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Johannes Brahms
Academic Festival Overture in C minor, Op.80
Orchestra: New York Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- SONY CLASSICS.
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MY FAVOURITE...DOWLAND SONGS
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John Dowland
Fine knacks for ladies
Performer: Desmond Dupr茅. Singer: Alfred Deller.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Trio Sonata in E flat major, BWV525
Music Arranger: Richard Stone. Ensemble: Tempesta di Mare.- CHANDOS.
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Felix Mendelssohn
String Quartet in E minor, Op.44 No.2
Ensemble: Melos Quartett.- DG.
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CHRIS RIDDELL'S CHOICE NO.1
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Clarinet Concerto in A major: I. Allegro
Performer: Maximiliano Mart铆n. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Alexander Janiczek.- LINN.
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CHRIS RIDDELL'S CHOICE NO.2
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Alfredo Catalani
La Wally: "Ebben! Ne andr貌 lontana"
Music Arranger: Vladimir Cosma. Singer: Wilhelmenia Fernandez. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Vladimir Cosma.- DRG.
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CHRIS RIDDELL'S CHOICE NO.3
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Erik Satie
Gymnopedie No.2
Performer: Noriko Ogawa.- BIS.
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MUSIC IN TIME: MEDIEVAL
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anon.
En ma forest
Ensemble: Duo Trobairitz.- HYPERION.
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Marcabru
L'autrier jost鈥� una sebissa
Singer: Frederick Urrey. Ensemble: Clemencic Consort. Director: Ren茅 Clemencic.- HARMONIA MUNDI.
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Richard Rodney Bennett
Troubadour Music
Performer: Victoria Soames Samek. Performer: Michael Bell.- CLARINET CLASSICS.
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Richard Wagner
Tristan und Isolde (conclusion of Love duet from Act II)
Singer: Margaret Price. Singer: Ren茅 Kollo. Singer: Dietrich Fischer鈥怐ieskau. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Conductor: Carlos Kleiber.- DG.
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Johannes Brahms
Hungarian Dance No.3 in F
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- CHANNEL CLASSICS.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: MARC-ANDRE HAMELIN
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Robert Schumann
Waldszenen, Op.82
Performer: Marc-Andr茅 Hamelin.- HYPERION.
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Robert Schumann
Mein Wagen rollet langsam, Op.142 No.4
Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Florian Boesch.- ONYX.
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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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John Philip Sousa
Hail to the Spirit of Liberty
Ensemble: President's Own United States Marine Band. Conductor: Colonel Albert Schoepper.- ALTISSIMO.
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John Philip Sousa
Sabre and Spurs
Orchestra: Eastman Wind Orchestra. Conductor: Frederic Fennell.- MERCURY LIVING PRESENCE.
Mapping the Music
Answer: Philadelphia
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Eastman Wind Ensemble鈥�
Frederick Fennell (conductor)鈥�
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