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Friday - Sarah Walker with William Boyd

With Sarah Walker. Including Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana; Proms Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti.

Sarah Walker's guest this week is the author William Boyd. Also, at 9:30, our daily brainteaser: Only Connect.

9am
A selection of music, including the Essential CD of the Week: Gianandrea Noseda - Ten Years of Musica Italiana. We also have our daily brainteaser at 9.30.

10am
Artist of the Week: Nicola Benedetti

10:30
Sarah's guest this week is the prize-winning African-born author and screenwriter William Boyd, whose novels include A Good Man in Africa, An Ice Cream War, Any Human Heart and Solo - a new James Bond novel continuing the adventures of Ian Fleming's spy hero. His screenplays include Richard Attenborough's biopic Chaplin, recalling the glamous life of the famous silent-film star, and The Trench (which Boyd also directed), set 24 hours before the battle of the Somme, and an adaptation of Evelyn Waugh's Scoop.

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Fri 15 Aug 201409:00
BBC Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Georg Philipp Telemann

    Suite in G minor TWV55:gl

    Orchestra: Academy for Ancient Music Berlin.
    • Harmonia Mundi.

  • anon

    Only Connect

    Conductor: anon.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Dixit et Magnificat K.193

    Choir: Arnold Schoenberg Chor. Singer: Eva Mei. Orchestra: Concentus Musicus Wien. Singer: Kurt Azesberger. Conductor: Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
    • Warner.

  • Edward Elgar

    Dream Children Op. 43: i. Andante

    Conductor: Sir Andrew Davis. Orchestra: BBC Symphony Orchestra.
    • Warner.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Orlando HWV31: Act III, Sinfonia

    Orchestra: Academy of Ancient Music. Conductor: Christopher Hogwood.
    • L'Oiseau-Lyre.

  • Felix Mendelssohn

    Violin Concerto in E minor

    Conductor: James MacMillan. Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Academy of St Martin in the Fields.
    • Decca.

  • Jean Sibelius

    The Bard Op.64

    Orchestra: London Symphony Orchestra. Conductor: Colin Davis.
    • RCA.

  • Gustav Mahler

    Symphony No.5 in C sharp minor (4th mvt)

    Orchestra: Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Conductor: Bernard Haitink.
    • Philips.

  • Pietro Mascagni

    Intermezzo (L'amico Fritz)

    Orchestra: BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Conductor: Gianandrea Noseda.
    • Chandos.

  • Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

    Waltz of the Flowers

    Orchestra: Berlin Philharmonic. Conductor: Sir Simon Rattle.
    • EMI.

  • Trad

    Dance from Vestfold

    Ensemble: Trio Mediæval.
    • ECM New Series.

  • Antonio Vivaldi

    Nulla in Mundo Pax Sincera

    Performer: Nicola Benedetti. Orchestra: Scottish Chamber Orchestra. Conductor: Christian Curnyn.
    • Decca.

Today's Brainteaser Answer - Only Connect

The connection was the Waltz of the Flowers from Tchaikovsky's ballet, The Nutcracker.

The music played:

Mayerl

Marigold

Susan Tomes (piano)

VIRGIN CLASSICS CUV561323 2

Puccini

Crisantemi (Chrysanthemums)

Hagen Quartet

DG 447069 2

Nevin

Narcissus

Philip Martin (piano)

HYPERION CDA76379

Broadcast

  • Fri 15 Aug 201409:00
    BBC Radio 3

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