Wednesday - Sarah Walker with Jon Snow
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Bach keyboard concertos; Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall, featured directing Monteverdi's Madrigals of War and Love.
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 our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.鈥
10am
Sarah's guest this week is the news journalist and presenter Jon Snow. Having cut his teeth as Washington Correspondent and then Diplomatic Editor at ITN, Jon became an anchor on Channel 4 News in 1989, a position he has held ever since. He is still active as a reporter and documentary-maker, and has covered major global events ranging from the release of Nelson Mandela and the fall of the Berlin Wall, to the inauguration of Barack Obama. As well as discussing his life's work, Jon shares his passion for classical music, choosing a selection of the works he's come to love, from his early years as a chorister at Winchester Cathedral, to the present day. Across the week we'll hear music by composers including Mahler, Howells, Max Richter and J.S. Bach.
10.30am
Music in Time: Baroque
Sarah's exploring the musical borrowing that occurred in the Baroque period, taking as an example J.S. Bach's use of music by Vivaldi for his keyboard concertos.
11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the Catalan conductor and viola da gamba player, Jordi Savall. Savall has been one of the leading lights of Early Music performance since the 1970s, unearthing lost repertoire as well as shedding new light on pieces from the European tradition. Working with his group Le Concert des Nations he's applied his invention to almost every corner of the core Baroque repertoire, producing landmark recordings of music from Italy, Spain, France, England and Germany. With Hesp猫rion XX (latterly XXI) - founded with his late wife, soprano Montserrat Figueras - he's turned his attention to lesser-known music of the Baroque, Renaissance and Medieval periods, introducing listeners to early music from Spain in particular as well the Near East and the Americas. As a viola da gamba player he has also played an important role in the instrument's revival. Sarah's selections from his vast discography include orchestral music by Bach and Handel (Music for the Royal Fireworks), as well as Monteverdi madrigals, music for viol consort by William Lawes, music from Ottoman-era Istanbul and Beethoven's Eroica Symphony.
Monteverdi
Selection from the Eighth Book of Madrigals, 'Madrigals of War and Love'
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall (director).
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Splendens ceptigera
Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Benedetto Marcello
Concerto in D minor for oboe and strings
Performer: Heinz Holliger. Orchestra: Staatskapelle Dresden. Director: Vittorio Negri.- Philips.
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Erik Satie
Jack in the Box
Orchestrator: Darius Milhaud. Orchestra: Orchestra of the Royal Opera House. Conductor: John Lanchbery.- Warner Classics.
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Franz Liszt
3 Concert Etudes: No.3, 'Un Sospiro'
Performer: Lucy Parham.- Private recording.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird
Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti. Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra.- MERCURY.
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Joseph Haydn
Ettrick Banks
Singer: Jamie MacDougall. Ensemble: Haydn Trio Eisenstadt.- BRILLIANT CLASSICS.
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Sir James MacMillan
A Child's Prayer
Choir: Gabrieli Consort. Conductor: Paul McCreesh.- SIGNUM.
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Edward Elgar
Introduction and Allegro for strings, Op 47
Conductor: John Barbirolli. Orchestra: Sinfonia of London. Ensemble: Allegri String Quartet.- Elgar/Vaughan Williams: English String Music: Barbirolli.
- EMI.
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Igor Stravinsky
Feu d'artifice
Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Antal Dor谩ti.- Mercury Living Presence.
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Jon Snow's First Choice
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Gerald Finzi
Eclogue for piano and strings
Performer: Piers Lane. Orchestra: Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Vernon Handley.- EMI.
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Jon Snow's Second Choice
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Gioachino Rossini
Petite Messe Solennelle: Kyrie
Performer: Wyneke Jordans. Performer: Loe van Doeselaar. Performer: Jos van Immerseel. Singer: Mireille Capelle. Singer: Catherine Patriasz. Singer: Joseph Cornwell. Singer: Jelle Draijer. Choir: Nederlands Kamerkoor. Director: Jos van Immerseel.- ACCENT.
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Music in Time: Baroque
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Antonio Vivaldi
Concerto for 4 violins in B Minor Op.3 No.10 RV580: I. Allegro
Performer: Rachel Podger. Ensemble: Brecon Baroque.- Channel.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Concerto for four keyboards BWV1065
Performer: Raymond Leppard. Performer: Philip Ledger. Performer: Andrew Davis. Performer: Blandine Verlet. Orchestra: English Concert Orchestra.- Philips.
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Jean Sibelius
Spring Song, Op 16
Orchestra: Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Neeme J盲rvi.- DG.
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Josef Suk
Once in Spring (About Mother, Op 28)
Performer: Margaret Fingerhut.- Suk: Piano Works: Margaret Fingerhut.
- Chandos.
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Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall
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Claudio Monteverdi
Madrigals book 8: 'Ballo: Volgendo Il Ciel - Movete al mio bel suon'
Performer: Jordi Savall. Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Director: Jordi Savall. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI.- Alia Vox.
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Moxica
Alma buscarte has en mi
Singer: Montserrat Figueras. Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Fahmi Alqhai. Performer: Andrew Lawrence鈥怟ing.- Alia Vox.
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Igor Stravinsky
The Firebird Suite
Orchestra: Budapest Festival Orchestra. Conductor: Iv谩n Fischer.- Channel.
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Alban Berg
Die Nachtigall (7 Early Songs)
Music Arranger: Clytus Gottwald. Choir: Accentus. Director: Laurence Equilbey.- 狈补茂惫别.
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Gy枚rgy Ligeti
Etude No.13 'L'escalier du diable'
Performer: Jeremy Denk.- Nonesuch.
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- Wed 26 Apr 2017 09:00成人快手 Radio 3