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Classical Collection: Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Tuesday - Sarah Walker

15/03/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Classical Collection, Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Sarah Walker with music by Ponchielli, Faure, Finzi, Weber, Beethoven, Bach and Brahms.

With Sarah Walker. Ponchielli: Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda). Faure: Pavane. Finzi: Five Bagatelles, Op 23. Weber: Overture (Der Freischutz). Beethoven: Piano Sonata No 3 in C.

Classical Collection with Sarah Walker: this week music that is "not of this world" and the Labeque sisters.

Today's highlights include Faure's Pavane, Weber's Der Freischutz overture and Brahms Hungarian Dances from the Labeque sisters and our Beethoven Piano Sonata cycle with the Sonata in C major, Op.2 No.3 performed by Claude Frank. 

10.00
Ponchielli
Dance of the Hours (La Gioconda)
Berlin Philharmonic
Herbert von Karajan (conductor)
DG 459 445-2

10.11
Faure
Pavane
Academy of St Martin in the Fields
Sir Neville Marriner (conductor)
EMI CDD 764107-2

10.18
Finzi
Five Bagatelles, Op.23
Michael Collins (clarinet)
Michael McHale (piano)
CHANDOS CHAN10637

10.33
Weber
Der Freischutz: Overture
Staatskapelle Dresden
Carlos Kleiber (conductor)
DG 415 432-2

Beethoven Piano Sonata Series 

10.43
Beethoven
Piano Sonata No.3 in C major, Op.2 No.3
Claude Frank (piano)
MUSIC & ARTS CD 4640

11.00
Farina
Pavane in A minor
Cantilena
Adrian Shepherd
CHANDOS CHAN6630

11.08
Bach
Es ist vollbracht! (St John Passion) 
Caroline Trevor (alto) 
Richard Boothby (viola da gamba) 
Taverner Consort and Players 
Andrew Parrott (conductor) 
VIRGIN 545096-2

11.13
Stravinsky
The Firebird Suite (1919)
Staatskapelle Dresden
Rudolf Kempe (conductor)
BERLIN CLASSICS BC 1097-2

11.42
Brahms
Hungarian Dances: selection
Katia & Marielle Labeque (piano)
PHILIPS 416 459-2.

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