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Monday - Sara Mohr-Pietsch

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents. In the Comedy Classics season, she talks to guest Charlie Higson about his favourite classical music.

Sara Mohr-Pietsch presents Breakfast, and in the second of the new Comedy Classics series at 9 o'clock, she talks to special guest Charlie Higson about his favourite classical music. Higson is an actor, comedian and author and is probably best known for 主播大秀 TV's "The Fast Show" in which he starred and for which he was one of the main writers. He is now busy building up a younger audience with his series of novels about a young James Bond.

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Mon 28 Mar 2011 07:00
主播大秀 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Dmitry Shostakovich

    Ballet suite no. 2 - Finale (Galop) (ed. Atovmyan)

    Performer: Russian Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Dmitry Yablonsky (conductor)

    • NAXOS 8.557208.

  • Johann Christian Bach

    Symphony (Op.8`4) in F major

    Performer: Freiburg Baroque Orchestra Performer: Gottfried von der Goltz, director

    • CARUS 83.307.

  • Fr茅d茅ric Chopin - Waltz in C sharp minor Op.64 No. 2

    Performer: Stephen Hough (piano)

  • Arthur Sullivan

    Iolanthe Overture

    Performer: Academy of St Martin in the Fields Performer: Neville Marriner (conductor)

    • PHILIPS 434 916-2.

  • Antonio Lolli

    Concerto for violin and orchestra in C major: 1st mvt Andante

    Performer: Giuliano Carmignola Performer: Venice Baroque Orchestra Performer: Andrea Marcon (director)

    • ARCHIV 477 6606.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Le Tombeau de Couperin for piano: No. 5 - Menuet

    Performer: Kathryn Stott (piano)

    • SONY 88697573852.

  • Vincenzo Bellini

    Norma: Casta Diva

    Performer: Cecilia Bartoli (soprano) Performer: Orchestra La Scintilla Performer: Adam Fischer (conductor)

    • DECCA 478 2558.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Prelude & Fugue in g minor BWV861 (WTC bk2)

    Performer: Richard Egarr (harpsichord)

    • HARMONIA MUNDI HMU 907431.32.

  • Modest Mussorgsky

    A Night on the bare mountain (ed. Rimsky-Korsakov)

    Performer: Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Mariss Jansons (conductor)

    • EMI 3 50824 2.

  • William Henry Harris

    Faire is the heaven

    Performer: The Sixteen Performer: Harry Christophers (conductor)

    • UCJ 179 5732.

  • Giuseppe Maria Jacchini

    Sonata a 5 in D major

    Performer: Alison Balsom (trumpet) Performer: The Parley of Instruments Performer: Peter Holman (organ)

    • HYPERION CDA67359.

  • Sergey Rachmaninov

    Prelude in C sharp minor Op.3 No. 2

    Performer: Steven Osborne (piano)

    • HYPERION CDA67700.

  • Giuseppe Verdi

    La Forza del destino - Overture

    Performer: National Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Riccardo Chailly (conductor)

    • DECCA 410 141-2.

  • Maurice Ravel

    Miroirs - no.3; Une Barque sur l'ocean

    Performer: Artur Pizzaro (piano)

    • LINN CKD290.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Ariodante - Act 2 sc.3; E vivo ancore ... Scherza infida

    Performer: Joyce DiDonato (soprano) Performer: Les Talens Lyriques Performer: Christophe Rousset (director)

    • VIRGIN CLASSICS 519038.

  • Comedy Classics: Charlie Higson's choices

    • Edward Elgar

      Cello Concerto: Mvt I

      Performer: Jacqueline Du Pre (cello) Performer: Philadelphia Orchestra Performer: Daniel Barenboim (conductor)

      • CBS MK 76529.

    • Michael Nyman

      The Piano: The heart asks pleasure first

      Performer: Michael Nyman (piano/director) Performer: Michael Nyman Band

      • MNRCD107.

    • Granville Bantock

      Sappho: prelude

      Performer: Royal Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Vernon Handley (conductor)

      • Hyperion CDA66899.

    • Malcolm Arnold

      Symphony No 5: Mvt III 鈥� con fuoco

      Performer: London Symphony Orchestra Performer: Richard Hickox (conductor)

      • CHANDOS CHAN 9385.

    • Ralph Vaughan Williams

      Fantasia on a theme by Thomas Tallis

      Performer: London Philharmonic Orchestra Performer: Sir Roger Norrington (conductor)

      • Decca 467 047-2.

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