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Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Beeban Kidron

With Sarah Walker. Including Music in Time: Janacek's Sinfonietta; Artist of the Week: pianist Steven Osborne, featured playing Schubert's Variations on an Original Theme, D813.

9am
Sarah sets the tone and mood of the day's programme with a range of music to intrigue, surprise and entertain.

9.30am
Take part in today's musical challenge: can you work out which two composers are associated with a particular piece?

10am
Sarah's guest this week is the film director Beeban Kidron. Beeban came to prominence in 1989 with the BAFTA award-winning TV adaptation of Jeanette Winterson's autobiographical novel, Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit, and since then she's directed television dramas, documentaries and feature films including Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason and To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar. In 2006 Beeban founded the charity Filmclub, an organisation which sets up after-school film clubs in schools in England and Wales and in 2012 she was made a life peer. As well as discussing her life and career, Beeban shares some her favourite classical music, from Puccini and Mozart to Messiaen.

10.30am
Music in Time: Modern
Sarah's shines the spotlight on the Modern period with politically-inspired music by Janacek, whose Sinfonietta was intended as a celebration of the newly liberated Czechoslovakia. According to Janacek it expresses "contemporary free man, his spiritual beauty and joy, his strength, courage and determination to fight for victory."

11am
Artist of the Week
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the Scottish pianist Steven Osborne. A fervent champion of 20th-century music, Osborne so impressed Messiaen's widow with a performance of Trois Petites Liturgies that she invited him to Paris to study Messiaen's larger piano works, and his recording of the epic piano cycle Vingt Regards sur l'Enfant-J茅sus is among the finest accounts on disc. He has also recorded the complete piano works of Tippett, including the colourful and somewhat neglected Piano Concerto. As a chamber musician, Osborne had worked with some of the world's leading musicians, and this week Sarah features him in Prokofiev's Violin Sonata No. 2 (with Alina Ibragimova) and Schubert's Variations on an Original Theme, D813 (with Paul Lewis), as well as Beethoven's 'Hammerklavier' Piano Sonata.

Schubert
Variations on an Original Theme in A flat major, D813
Steven Osborne, Paul Lewis (piano duet).

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Wed 11 Jan 2017 09:00
成人快手 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Bohuslav Martin暖

    Miniatures: Touha (Longing)

    Performer: Malcolm Martineau. Singer: Magdalena Ko啪en谩.
    • DG.

  • Anton铆n Dvo艡谩k

    Bagatelles, Op. 47

    Performer: G谩bor Tak谩cs鈥怤agy. Performer: K谩roly Schranz. Performer: G谩bor Ormai. Performer: Andr谩s Fej茅r. Ensemble: Tak谩cs Quartet.
    • DECCA.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STEVEN OSBORNE

    • Franz Schubert

      Fugue

      Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
      • HYPERION.

  • Havergal Brian

    The Tinker's Wedding

    Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
    • Brian: Symphonies Nos 7 and 31; The Tinker's Wedding.
    • EMI Classics.
    • 1.

  • Carlo Gesualdo

    Miserere

    Conductor: Philippe Herreweghe. Choir: Collegium Vocale Gent.
    • PHI.

  • Arthur Bliss

    Conversations for flute, oboe and string trio

    Ensemble: Nash Ensemble. Conductor: Lionel Friend.
    • HYPERION.

  • Joseph Shabalala

    Wonke Amehlo Azokumbona

    Choir: Ladysmith Black Mambazo.
    • POLYGRAM TV.

  • Beeban Kidron's Choice No. 1

    • Rachel Portman

      Oranges are not the Only Fruit: Main Titles

      Conductor: David Snell.
      • UNIVERSAL.

  • Beeban Kidron's Choice No. 2

    • Richard Wagner

      Tristan und Isolde: Act 2, 'O sink hernieder, Nacht der Liebe'

      Singer: Wolfgang Windgassen. Singer: Birgit Nilsson. Singer: Christa Ludwig. Orchestra: Bayreuth Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Karl B枚hm.
      • DG.

  • anon

    Running Footman

    Ensemble: Ulsamer Collegium. Conductor: Josef Ulsamer.
    • DG.

  • Music in Time: Modern

    • Leos Jan谩膷ek

      Sinfonietta

      Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.
      • DECCA.

  • Herbert Howells

    Nunc dimittis (Gloucester Service)

    Performer: Jeremy Cole. Choir: Choir of Trinity College, Cambridge. Conductor: Stephen Layton.
    • HYPERION.

  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: STEVEN OSBORNE

    • Franz Schubert

      Variations on an original theme in A flat major, D.813

      Performer: Steven Osborne. Performer: Paul Lewis.
      • HYPERION.

  • Franz Schubert

    Die Vogel, D.691

    Performer: Jean鈥怗uihen Queyras. Performer: Alexandre Tharaud.
    • HARMONIA MUNDI.

  • Louis Andriessen

    De Staat

    Choir: Synergy Vocals. Orchestra: London Sinfonietta. Conductor: David Atherton.
    • SIGNUM.

Musical Challenge: Heard on Screen

The music played was the second movement of Mozart's Clarinet Concerto in A major, which was featured in the 19085 Sydney Pollack film Out of Africa.

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  • Wed 11 Jan 2017 09:00
    成人快手 Radio 3

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