Friday - Sarah Walker with Jon Snow
With Sarah Walker. Including Musical challenge; Music in Time: Szymanowski: Violin Concerto No 1; Artist of the Week: Jordi Savall, featured directing music from the Near East.
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. Two pieces of music are played together: can you identify them?
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: Modern
Today Sarah showcases Szymanowski's First Violin Concerto, a piece celebrated for rejecting the previous century's traditions of tonality and dramatic tension in favour of a style that draws on raw, expressionistic intensity.
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.
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A selection of pieces from the Near East, including 'Samai maqam Bayati'
Moslem Rahal (ney)
Waed Bouhassoun (oud)
Hesperion XXI
Jordi Savall (vielle/director).
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: JORDI SAVALL
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Anon.
Saltarello
Performer: Jordi Savall. Performer: Pedro Estevan.- Astree.
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Johannes Brahms
Tragic Overture
Orchestra: Gewandhausorchester Leipzig. Conductor: Riccardo Chailly.- Decca.
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Maria Szymanowska
Cotillon ou valse figur茅e
Performer: Alexander Kostritsa.- Grand Piano.
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Gavin Bryars
Credo (A Worcester Ladymass)
Ensemble: Trio Medi忙val.- ECM.
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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Rondo in C K.373
Performer: James Ehnes. Orchestra: Mozart Anniversary Orchestra. -
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Samuel Barber
Summer Music
Ensemble: Philharmonisches Bl盲serquintett Berlin.- BIS.
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Claudio Monteverdi
Ave Maris Stella (Vespro della Beata Vergine 1610)
Choir: Monteverdi Choir. Ensemble: English Baroque Soloists. Conductor: Sir John Eliot Gardiner.- DG.
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Franz Schubert
Die Sterne, D 939
Performer: Joseph Middleton. Singer: Ruby Hughes.- Nocturnal Variations.
- Champs Hill Records.
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JON SNOW'S FIRST CHOICE
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Max Richter
Vivaldi Recomposed: Summer 3
Performer: Daniel Hope. Orchestra: Konzerthaus Kammerorchester Berlin. Conductor: Andr茅 de Ridder.- DG.
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JON SNOW'S SECOND CHOICE
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Gustav Mahler
Symphony no.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)
Orchestra: Vienna Philharmonic. Conductor: Leonard Bernstein.- DG.
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SARAH'S CHOICE FOR JON SNOW
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Fugue in G major, BWV.577
Orchestrator: Gustav Holst. Conductor: Leonard Slatkin. Orchestra: 成人快手 Philharmonic.- Bach Transcriptions: 成人快手 Philharmonic/Slatkin.
- Chandos.
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MUSIC IN TIME: MODERN
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Karol Szymanowski
Violin Concerto No.1
Performer: Frank Peter Zimmermann. Orchestra: Warsaw Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Antoni Wit.- Sony.
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Robert Schumann
Meine Rose Op. 90 No. 2
Singer: Matthias Goerne. Performer: Markus Hinterh盲user.- Harmonia Mundi.
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ARTIST OF THE WEEK: JORDI SAVALL
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Fray Filipe de Madre de Deus
Antonya, Flaciquia, Gasip谩
Singer: David Sagastume. Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Conductor: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Samai maqam Bayati
Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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George Frideric Handel
Water Music No.1 in F
Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations. Director: Jordi Savall.- Alia Vox.
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Juan Garc铆a de Z茅spedes
Guaracha: Aye que me abrazo
Choir: La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Ensemble: Hesp猫rion XXI. Director: Jordi Savall.
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Musical Challenge: Imperfect Harmony
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