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Essential Classics: Sound Frontiers: Friday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore

Sarah Walker

30/09/2016

Sound Frontiers: Friday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore

BBC Radio 3 - Essential Classics, Sound Frontiers: Friday - Sarah Walker with John Finnemore

Artist of the Week: Andrew Manze, featured conducting Handel's Concerto grosso in D, Op 6.

Live from Southbank Centre. My Favourite Contemporary Choral Music; Music in Time: Myslivecek: Octet No 1; Artist of the Week: Andrew Manze, in Handel's Concerto grosso in D, Op 6.

9am
My favourite... contemporary choral music. Sarah shares a selection of contemporary choral works that are ear catching, innovative and often very beautiful. Sarah has long had a soft spot for this repertoire and throughout the week she seeks out some of her favourite pieces by composers including Gabriel Jackson, Judith Weir, Eriks Ešenvalds and Antony Pitts. You'll be signing up to your local choir in no time. 

9.30am
Take part in our daily musical challenge: identify a piece of music played backwards.

10am 
Sarah's guest is the writer and comedian John Finnemore. John is best known for writing and starring in the multi-award winning Radio 4 sitcom Cabin Pressure, and for his radio sketch show John Finnemore's Souvenir Programme. He has written for other comedy shows including That Mitchell and Webb Look, Dead Ringers, The Now Show and The Unbelievable Truth, and has also appeared as a panelist on shows including Just a Minute and The News Quiz. John will be talking music, comedy and wordplay every day at 10am, and sharing a selection of his favourite classical works, including Janacek's The Cunning Little Vixen and Mozart's Bassoon Concerto. And on Friday, as part of Radio 3's 70th anniversary celebrations, John and friends will be performing a specially written musical sketch show live in the Radio 3 pop-up studio at Southbank Centre, London. 

10.30am
Power of Three - The second in a 70-part daily series of pioneering sounds from the BBC Third Programme and Radio 3 archives presented by David Hendy.

Followed by 
Music in Time: Classical
Sarah places Music in Time, travelling to the Classical era to find out about popular wind music of the day. The German term Harmonie describes an ensemble of wind instrumentalists employed by wealthy patrons to provide entertainment for parties and other social gatherings. Many of the most famous classical composers wrote music - or Harmoniemusik - for such occasions, including Haydn and Mozart. Sarah shares an example by Mozart's friend, the Czech composer Josef Myslivecek - his Octet No.1 in E flat. 

11am
Sarah's Artist of the Week is the violinist and conductor Andrew Manze, who has been called "the first modern superstar of the baroque violin". Sarah explores some of Manze's finest recordings of works by composers including Biber and J.S. Bach, featuring the two groups with which he's most closely associated, the Academy of Ancient Music and The English Concert. Beyond the baroque, Sarah will also share some of Manze's work as a conductor, including his recent collaboration with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and his recording of the complete cycle of symphonies by Vaughan Williams. 

Handel
Concerto Grosso in D major, Op.6 No.5
The English Concert
Andrew Manze (director).

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