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Thursday - Sarah Walker with Joan Bakewell

With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Saint-Saens: Danse macabre; Artist of the Week: pianist Dinu Lipatti, featured performing Grieg's Piano Concerto.

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 remember the television show or film that featured this piece of classical music?

10am
Sarah's guest in the week leading up to Radio 3's Free Thinking weekend, 'The Speed of Life', is the broadcaster, novelist and journalist Joan Bakewell. Joan began her TV career in the 1960s presenting shows such as Late Night Line-Up, later becoming 成人快手 TV's Arts Correspondent. She has specialised in programmes about religion and ethics - presenting Heart of the Matter on 成人快手 1, also Belief on 成人快手 Radio 3, and Inside the Ethics Committee on 成人快手 Radio 4 - and she is currently the presenter of Portrait Artist of the Year and Landscape Artist of the Year on Sky Arts. Over the course of her career, Joan has written for most of the UK's newspapers including The Sunday Times, The Guardian and The Daily Telegraph and has published a number of novels and autobiographical books, most recently discussing ageing and the changes in today's society. She's also served as chair of the British Film Institute and on the council of the Aldeburgh Festival. As well as discussing her life and work, Joan has chosen a selection of her favourite classical music.

10.30am
Music in Time: Romantic
Today Sarah's exploring the Romantic fascination with death and the supernatural, through the lens of Saint-Sa毛ns's tone poem Dance Macabre, just one of many compositions and paintings of the same name.

Double Take
Sarah explores the nature of performance by highlighting the differences between two orchestral interpretations of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, one by Maurice Ravel and the other by Slovak conductor/composer Peter Breiner.

11am
Artist of the Week: Dinu Lipatti
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the Romanian pianist Dinu Lipatti. Severely restricted by his delicate health, he never attended school, toured only within a small area of Europe and died aged only 33. The life and career of Dinu Lipatti was cut tragically short, but despite this he became a critically acclaimed pianist and composer. After unofficially entering the Bucharest Conservatory aged 11, he came second in the Vienna International Piano Competition only five years later. One of the judges at the competition was the pianist Alfred Cortot who, hearing the result, resigned in protest. Cortot later became his teacher and, on Cortot's advice, he studied composition with Paul Dukas and after his death, with Nadia Boulanger. There are very few recordings of Lipatti's playing, but from this limited catalogue Sarah has chosen his classic interpretations of Chopin's Piano Sonata No.3 in B minor, Mozart's Piano Concerto No.21, the piano concertos of Schumann and Grieg, a range of shorter works by Chopin and Liszt, and Myra Hess's arrangement of Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring, the last piece he played in concert before his death.

Grieg
Piano Concerto in A minor, Op.16
Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Philharmonia Orchestra
Alceo Galliera (conductor).

3 hours

Music Played

  • Arnold Bax

    Fagin's romp (Oliver Twist)

    Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic. Conductor: Rumon Gamba.
    • CHANDOS CHAN.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: DINU LIPATTI

    • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin

      Nocturne in D flat Op.27 No.2

      Performer: Dinu Lipatti.
      • PHILIPS.
  • Cl茅ment Janequin

    Toutes les Nuictz

    Ensemble: Ensemble Cl茅ment Janequin. Director: Dominique Visse.
    • Harmonia Mundi.
  • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

    Melodies Persanes Op.26: No.5 Au cimeti猫re

    Performer: Graham Johnson. Singer: Fran莽ois Le Roux.
    • Hyperion.
  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Christoph von Dohn谩nyi.
    • Decca.
  • Henry Purcell

    King Arthur (Overture)

    Ensemble: Tafelmusik. Director: Jeanne Lamon.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.
  • Gioachino Rossini

    Sonata for Wind Quartet No.2 in G

    Ensemble: Michael Thompson Wind Ensemble.
    • NAXOS.
  • Johann Strauss II

    The Blue Danube

    Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Mariss Jansons.
    • SONY.
  • Joan Bakewell's Choice No.1

    • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

      Eugene Onegin: Act III (conclusion) "Onegin! Ya togda molozhe"

      Singer: Nuccia Focile. Singer: Dmitri Hvorostovsky. Orchestra: Orchestre de Paris 鈥 Philharmonie. Conductor: Semyon Bychkov.
      • PHILIPS.
  • Joan Bakewell's Choice No.2

    • Max Bruch

      VIolin Concerto in G minor (3rd movement)

      Performer: Janine Jansen. Orchestra: Gewandhaus Orchestra. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.
      • DECCA.
  • C茅cile Chaminade

    Impromptu, Op 35 No 5

    Performer: Joanne Polk.
    • The Flatterer.
    • STEINWAY & SONS.
    • 12.
  • Music in Time: Romantic

    • Camille Saint鈥怱a毛ns

      Dance Macabre in G minor, Op.40

      Performer: Felix Kok. Orchestra: City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Louis Fr茅maux.
      • EMI.
  • Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach

    Sonata in F major, Wq55 No.5

    Performer: Gabor Antalffy.
    • CPO.
  • Double Take

    • Modest Mussorgsky

      Pictures at an Exhibition: Vecchio Castello

      Orchestrator: Peter Breiner. Orchestra: New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Peter Breiner.
      • NAXOS.
    • Modest Mussorgsky

      Pictures at an Exhibition: Vecchio Castello

      Orchestra: Berliner Philharmoniker. Conductor: Herbert von Karajan.
      • DG.
  • Anthony Holborne

    The Fairie-Round Galliard

    Ensemble: Fretwork.
    • Music for Viols.
    • Virgin.
    • 14.
  • ARTIST OF THE WEEK: DINU LIPATTI

    • Johann Sebastian Bach

      Partita No.1 in B flat BWV825

      Performer: Dinu Lipatti.
      • PHILIPS.
  • Henryk Miko艂aj G贸recki

    Totus Tuus

    Choir: The Sixteen. Director: Harry Christophers.
    • Universal.
  • Thomas Campion

    English Ayres: 'Turn Back You Wanton Flyer'

    Performer: David Tayler. Singer: Brian Asawa.
    • RCA.
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    String Quartet in G K156

    Ensemble: Quartetto Italiano.
    • Philips.
  • Tan Dun

    Eight Memories in Watercolour, Op.1 (Floating Clouds)

    Performer: Lang Lang.
    • Deutsche Grammophon.
  • Aaron Copland

    El Sal贸n M茅xico

    Conductor: Aaron Copland. Orchestra: Philharmonia Orchestra.
    • SONY CLASSICAL.

Musical Challenge: Heard on Screen

The film in question was the 1968 Stanley聽Kubrick film,聽'2001: A Space Odyssey', which features many famous classical works including 'The Beautiful Blue Danube' by Johann Strauss II.

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