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Essential Classics: Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Tuesday - Sarah Walker

18/10/2011

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Tuesday - Sarah Walkersearch

Sarah Walker presents music by Haydn, Mozart and Mendelssohn.

With Sarah Walker. Including Haydn: Symphony No 22 (Philosopher): Jack Brymer (clarinet) in Mozart's Clarinet Concerto; Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto No 1, Op 25.

9am
Sarah Walker's selection of music today includes Haydn's Symphony No.22 (Philosopher).

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and a recording of our Artist of the Week, the clarinettist Jack Brymer, performing Mozart's Clarinet Concerto with the London Symphony Orchestra under Colin Davis.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Simon Jenkins, the journalist, author and former editor of The Times and the Evening Standard, who is also chairman of the National Trust. Today he introduces a piece that reminds him of a particular place.

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice.

Mendelssohn: Piano Concerto no 1, op 25.
Murray Perahia (piano),
Academy of St Martin-in-the-Fields,
Neville Marriner (conductor).
CBS CD42401. 
 
Producer Sarah Devonald 
  
Presenter  SARAH WALKER 
  

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Short Desc 
Sarah Walker shares great music and performances. Her studio guest is Simon Jenkins. 
 
Medium Desc 
Sarah Walker shares great music and performances, with the Essential CD of the Week, Artist of the Week, and her studio guest this week, journalist and author Simon Jenkins. 
 
Long Desc 
9am
Sarah Walker's selection of must-hear music today includes Handel's The King shall Rejoice performed by the Choir of King's College, Cambridge, and the Academy of Ancient Music from the Essential CD of the Week: a recording of Handel's Coronation Anthems conducted by Stephen Cleobury.

9.30am
A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artist of the Week, the clarinettist Jack Brymer: Debussy (Premiere Rhapsody); Brahms (Quintet for clarinet and strings). Also in this hour, Liszt's Mephisto Polka played by pianist Earl Wild.

10.30am
The Essential Classics guest is Simon Jenkins, the journalist, author and former editor of The Times and the Evening Standard, who is also chairman of the National Trust. Today he introduces music that makes him glad to be alive, a piece he feels should be better known, and music that he finds particularly moving.

11.00
Sarah's Essential Choice.

Dvorak: Symphony no 7.
Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra,
Mariss Jansons (conductor).
EMI CDC754 663 2.

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