Listings
with Andrew McGregor , including at approximately
7.05 Biber Sonata a 3 7.25 Schubert 11
Ecossaises (D781)
7.32 Rossini Overture:
The Silken Ladder
8.05 Purcell Atvakeye dead 820 Grieg In Autumn, Op 11
8.35 Gershwin Symphonic Portrait (Porgy and Bess)
Discs
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
McGregor
(1840-93)
Tchaikovsky is one of the most popular, yet also one of the least known of the great composers. In the week of the centenary of his death, John Warrack presents a chronological survey.
The Early Years
Dances (The Oprichnik) Royal Opera House
Orchestra/Colin Davis
Souvenir de Hapsal, Op 2 Viktoria Postnikova (piano) To sleep
USSR Chorus/Sveshnikov Scherzo a la Russe, Op 1 Nol
Michael Ponti (piano) My angel
Robert Tear (tenor) Philip Ledger (piano)
Do not believe; None but the lonely heart
Joan Rodgers (soprano) Roger Vignoles (piano)
Fantasy Overture: Romeo and Juliet (1869 version) LSO/Geoffrey Simon. Discs
Contributors
Unknown:
John
Warrack
Piano:
Michael
Ponti
Piano:
Philip
Ledger
Soprano:
Joan
Rodgers
Piano:
Roger
Vignoles
with Edward Blakeman.
This week featuring the BBC Concert Orchestra, some British chamber orchestras, Stokowski's
Bach arrangements played by the BBC Philharmonic, and the music of a recently rediscovered Italian baroque composer.
Bizet Overture: Doctor
Miracle
BBC Concert Orchestra conductor Barry Wordsworth
10.05 Bach, arr Stokowski Siciliano
BBC Philharmonic/Bamert
10.10 Brahms Two Songs, Op 91
Janet Baker (contralto) Cecil Aronowitz (viola) Andre Previn (piano)
10.20 Artist of the Week:
James Dower (flute)
Thiriet Flute Concerto
BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
10.40 Mozart Piano
Sonata in A minor (K310) Dinu Lipatti (piano)
10.55 Damase Ballet Suite: La croqueuse de diamants BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Barry Wordsworth
11.10 Innocenzo Fede Sei pur dolce; Recorder Sonata
London Baroque/Medlam
11.20 Schubert
Symphony No 5 in B flat English Classical Players, conductor Jonathan Brett
Contributors
Unknown:
Edward
Blakeman.
Conductor:
Barry
Wordsworth
Unknown:
Stokowski
Siciliano
Contralto:
Janet
Baker
Viola:
Cecil
Aronowitz
Piano:
Andre
Previn
Flute:
James
Dower
Conductor:
Barry
Wordsworth
Piano:
Dinu
Lipatti
Conductor:
Barry
Wordsworth
Conductor:
Innocenzo Fede
Sei
Conductor:
Jonathan
Brett
Roderick Swanston addresses some typically Verdian themes.
4: Fathers and Daughters
Extracts from Luisa Miller , Simone Boccanegra and Rigoletto, sung by Callas, de los Angeles, Galli-Curci, Tibbett, Gobbi and Kipnis. Discs
Contributors
Unknown:
Roderick
Swanston
Unknown:
Luisa
Miller
Unknown:
Simone
Boccanegra
from St John 's, Smith Square,
London.
Bartok Quartet
Mozart String Quartet in G (K387)
Schumann String Quartet in A minor, Op 41 No 1
Contributors
Unknown:
St
John
BBC Singers/Simon Joly Bach Singet dem Herrn Wolf Geistliche Lieder Messiaen 0 sacrum convivium
Llgetl Lux aeterna
Giles Swayne Magnificat Howells Requiem
Danlel-Lesur Le cantique de cantiques
Contributors
Unknown:
Giles Swayne
Magnificat
Unknown:
Howells
Requiem
First of two programmes of courtly music by Lawes, Coprario and Ferrabosco played by Fretwork.
American trumpeter
- Doc Cheatham is the subject of this three-part series. Born in 1905, Cheatham is still playing at the age of 88, and the names of the musicians he has worked with constitute a veritable history of jazz.
This week Alyn Shipton talks to him about subbing for Louis Armstrong , accompanying singer Ma Rainey , and playing with Sam Wooding.
Producer Derek Drescher
Contributors
Unknown:
Doc
Cheatham
Talks:
Alyn
Shipton
Unknown:
Louis
Armstrong
Singer:
Ma
Rainey
Unknown:
Sam
Wooding.
Producer:
Derek
Drescher
With Andrew Green , including at approximately
5.15 Monteverdi Beatus Vir
6.32 Schubert, transcr
Liszt Aufdem Wasser zu Singen
7.03 Tchaikovsky Sleeping Beauty (excerpts) Producer Andrew Mussett
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
Green
Unknown:
Liszt Aufdem
Wasser
Producer:
Andrew
Mussett
BBC Philharmonic conductor Yan Pascal
Tortelier
Alexander Markov (violin) Messiaen Les Offrandes Oubliées
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor
Tchaikovsky Symphony No 5 in E minor
Contributors
Conductor:
Yan
Pascal
Violin:
Alexander
Markov
First of the week's four programmes in which the Australian poet Les Murray introduces and reads from his own work.
Tonight he reads from his long sequence Presence, a series of poems about animals and birds and the inwardness of their lives... Producer Fiona McLean
Contributors
Producer:
Fiona
McLean
Margaret Price (soprano) Philip Moll (piano) Schubert An die untergehende Sonne; Der Wanderer an den Mond; Die Mainacht; Diejunge Nonne ; Im Freien; Der
Ungluckliche; Sehnsucht Schumann Leiderkreis , Op 39
Contributors
Piano:
Philip
Moll
Unknown:
Diejunge
Nonne
Unknown:
Sehnsucht Schumann
Leiderkreis
Arve Tellefsen (violin) Harvard Gimse (piano) Brahms Scherzo in C minor (FAE Sonata)
Grieg Violin Sonata No 3 in C minor
Robert Sandall and Mark Russell present a selection of music mixing styles and influences, and talk to Simon Jeffes about arranging the strings for Sid Vicious 's My Way, writing for the Royal Ballet, and about his long-standing Penguin Cafe Orchestra, which came to him in a dream 21 years ago.
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Sandall
Unknown:
Mark
Russell
Unknown:
Simon
Jeffes
Unknown:
Sid
Vicious
York Early Music Festival David Fallows introduces the penultimate programme from this year's festival.
Musica Petropolitana play late 18th-century music from St Petersburg.
Contributors
Introduces:
David
Fallows
Unknown:
Musica
Petropolitana
Except in Scotland.
As broadcast 9.00-10.25am on R5