About this programme

With Sarah Walker. Including the Essential CD of the Week: Arne Overtures, performed by Collegium Musicum 90, under co-founder Simon Standage. 9.30 A daily brainteaser and performances by the Artists of the Week, the Kuijken Brothers. 10.30 As the Poetry Parnassus festival continues at London's Southbank Centre, Britain's representative, Jo Shapcott, joins Sarah to discuss the event. 11.00 Sarah's Essential Choice. Mozart: Requiem, K626. Barbara Bonney (soprano), Anne Sofie von Otter (contralto), Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor), Willard White (bass), Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner.