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Essential Classics: Tuesday - Sarah Walker

Tuesday - Sarah Walker

15/10/2013

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Tuesday - Sarah Walkersearch

With Sarah Walker. Including Sarah's Essential Choice: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.

With Sarah Walker. CD of the Week: Grieg - Complete Music with Orchestra; Artists of the Week: the Labeque sisters perform; Essential Choice: Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique.

9am A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Grieg ? Complete Music with Orchestra ? Gothenburg Symphony, Neeme Järvi (conductor), and at 9.30 our brainteaser: Critic's Corner.

10am
Artists of the Week: The Labèque Sisters

10.30am
With the result of the Man Booker Prize announced today, Sarah's guest is the 2011 prize-winner, the novelist Julian Barnes. A graduate of modern languages, Julian has worked as a lexicographer for the Oxford English Dictionary, and has written for the New Statesman and the Observer. He is a keen Francophile and has appeared in a BBC Radio 4 series of Inspector Maigret adaptations. Julian was made Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2004. His many international literary awards include the Somerset Maugham Award (Metroland 1981); Prix Médicis (FP 1986); E. M. Forster Award (American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1986) and the Prix Femina (Talking It Over 1992).

11am
Sarah's Essential Choice

Berlioz
Symphonie Fantastique, Op.14
Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra
Bernard Haitink (conductor).

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