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Tuesday - Sarah Walker with Graeme Swann

With Sarah Walker. My Favourite Monteverdi Madrigals; Music in Time: Lotti's Crucifixus; Proms Artist of the Week: Semyon Bychkov, who conducts Wagner: Lohengrin (finale of Act 3).

9am
My favourite... Monteverdi madrigals. There's an Italian flavour in the air this week as Sarah shares a selection of her favourite Monteverdi madrigals. These works condense extraordinary depths of feeling into just a few minutes and range from tales of ardent lovers and the cruelty of fate, to musical evocations of nature and the battlefield. We'll hear madrigals spanning Monteverdi's lifetime, including the progressive Fifth Book with its striking dissonances, and one of his most celebrated masterworks, the Eighth Book: Madrigals of Love and War. The line-up includes the sensual and theatrical Lamento della ninfa ('The nymph's lament'), Hor che'l ciel e la terra ('Now that the sky and the earth') and the melancholy O gloriose martyr.

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 cricket broadcaster and former international cricketer, Graeme Swann. Graeme was part of three Ashes-winning teams and was regarded as one of the greatest spin bowlers in the world. In his 60 Test matches Graeme took 255 Test wickets, a total that put him sixth on the all-time list of English bowlers. He also made dozens of one-day international appearances and Twenty20 internationals, being part of the team that won the T20 World Cup in 2010. Since retiring from cricket, Graeme has been a summariser for the 成人快手's ever-popular Test Match Special. Throughout the week Graeme will be talking about his cricketing career and sharing a selection of his favourite classical music, including works by Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Ravel.

10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah places Music in Time with music from the Baroque period. Antonio Lotti is known today primarily for his Crucifixus which is in fact not a self-contained work but a movement from a complete setting of the Credo text. Sarah explores the fuller context of this much-loved choral gem.

11am
Sarah's Proms Artist of the Week is the conductor Semyon Bychkov. A master of large-scale works, Bychkov has excelled in Romantic and twentieth-century repertoire, particularly from the Austro-German and Russian traditions. Sarah explores a different aspect of the conductor's work each day, including his Russian roots in a much-celebrated account of Shostakovich's 11th Symphony; his time as Music Director of the Orchestre de Paris, which he conducts in Poulenc's Les Biches; the tremendous success he's had as an interpreter of opera (featuring the conclusion of Wagner's Lohengrin, which was voted 成人快手 Music Magazine's Record of the Year in 2010); and finally his collaborations with his piano-duo wife and sister-in-law, the Lab猫ques, who he joins at the keyboard in a performance of Mozart's Concerto for 3 Pianos, K.242.

Wagner
Lohengrin: Act III (conclusion)
Johan Botha (Lohengrin)
Adrianne Pieczonka (Elsa)
Kwangchul Youn (King Heinrich)
Petra Lang (Ortrud)
WDR Radio Chorus, Cologne
NDR Choir
Prague Chamber Choir
WDR Symphony Orchestra, Cologne
Semyon Bychkov (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Richard Wagner

    Lohengrin (Act 3 Prelude)

    Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
    • PROFIL.
  • MY FAVOURITE...MONTEVERDI MADRIGALS

    • Claudio Monteverdi

      Lamento della ninfa (8th Book of Madrigals)

      Choir: The Consort of Musicke. Singer: Emma Kirkby. Singer: Paul Agnew. Singer: Alan Ewing. Director: Anthony Rooley.
      • Virgin.
  • Ole Bull

    Herd Girl's Sunday

    Orchestra: Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Paavo Berglund.
    • Warner.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Twelve Variations on 'Ah vous dirai-je, Maman'

    Performer: Sir Andr谩s Schiff.
    • Decca.
  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Oboe d'amore Concerto in E minor, TWV.51:e2

    Performer: Albrecht Mayer. Orchestra: Berlin Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Rainer Kussmaul.
    • EMI.
  • Ernest Chausson

    Sept Melodies, Op. 2: No. 4 La derniere feuille

    Performer: Susan Manoff. Singer: V茅ronique Gens.
    • Alpha.
  • Reynaldo Hahn

    L'heure exquise

    Singer: Alice Coote. Performer: Graham Johnson.
    • L'heure Exquise - A French Songbook.
    • Hyperion.
    • 2.
  • Benjamin Britten

    Young Apollo, Op.16

    Performer: Steven Osborne. Orchestra: 成人快手 Scottish Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Ilan Volkov.
    • Britten: Piano Concerto/Diversions/Young Apollo: Osborne/成人快手 SSO/Volkov.
    • Hyperion.
    • 6.
  • Frederick Delius

    Hassan: Serenade

    Performer: Beatrice Harrison. Performer: Margaret Harris.
    • Symposium.
  • GRAEME SWANN'S CHOICE NO.1

    • Gustav Holst

      The Planets: Jupiter, the bringer of jollity

      Orchestra: Orchestre symphonique de Montr茅al. Conductor: Charles Dutoit.
      • DECCA.
  • GRAEME SWANN'S CHOICE NO.2

    • John Williams

      Main Title/Rebel Blockade Runner

      Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: John Williams.
  • Gabriel Faur茅

    Nocturne no. 5 in B flat major Op.37 for piano

    Performer: Angela Hewitt.
    • Faure Piano Music.
    • HYPERION.
    • 15.
  • MUSIC IN TIME: BAROQUE

    • Antonio Lotti

      Credo (Missa Sancti Christophori)

      Ensemble: The Syred Consort. Orchestra: Orchestra Of St Pauls. Director: Bee Palmer.
      • Delphian.
  • Jan Dismas Zelenka

    Trio Sonata no.5 in F major (3rd mvt)

    Ensemble: Ensemble Marsyas.
    • Linn.
  • PROMS ARTIST OF THE WEEK: SEMYON BYCHKOV

    • Richard Wagner

      Lohengrin: Act III (conclusion)

      Singer: Johan Botha. Singer: Adrianne Pieczonka. Singer: Kwangchul Youn. Singer: Petra Lang. Orchestra: WDR Symphony Orchestra Cologne. Choir: WDR Funkhausorchester. Choir: NDR Choir. Choir: Pra啪sk媒 komorn铆 sbor. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
      • Profil.
  • Joseph Haydn

    Symphony No 101 in D major, 'Clock'

    Orchestra: Les Musiciens du Louvre. Conductor: Marc Minkowski.
    • Haydn, 12 London Symphonies: Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre-Grenobles.
    • Naive.
    • 9.
  • Henryk Wieniawski

    L茅gende Op.17

    Performer: Maxim Vengerov. Performer: Itamar Golan.
    • Paganini/Saraste/Kreisler/Wieniawski: Vengerov/Golan.
    • Teldec.
    • 3.

Mystery Person

Answer: Beatrice Harrison (cellist)

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