Listings
: Open University
Developing World: Weather
: Record Review
Presented by Richard Osborne.Mendelssohn Overture: The
Hebrides (Fingal's Cave) Orchestre des Champs
Elysees/Philippe Herreweghe
7.12 Hoist Invocation
Julian Lloyd Webber (cello) Academy of St Martin, conductor Neville Marriner
Contributors
Presented By:
Richard
Osborne.
: Henry Cowell
Concerto grossoManhattan Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Richard Auldon Clark
7.52 Brahms Sonata in F minor, Op 34b
Martha Argerich and Alexandre Rabinovitch
(pianos)
8.35 Haydn Symphony No 55 in E flat (Schoolmaster) C P E Bach Chamber
Orchestra, conductor
Hartmut Haenchen
Contributors
Conductor:
Richard Auldon
Clark
Conductor:
Brahms
Sonata
Unknown:
Martha
Argerich
Pianos:
Alexandre
Rabinovitch
Conductor:
Hartmut
Haenchen
: Building a Library
Handel's Concerti grossi,Op 6 by Lionel Salter. Misha Donat on new releases of piano music, including
Prokofiev's "war" sonatas by Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Contributors
Unknown:
Lionel
Salter.
Unknown:
Misha
Donat
Unknown:
Vladimir
Ashkenazy.
: Record Release
Ravel SonatineBoris Berezovsky (piano)
10.28 Chopin, transcr
Balaklrev Romanza (Piano Concerto No 1 in E minor) Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
10.40 Schumann
Kreisleriana, Op 16 Radu Lupu (piano)
Contributors
Unknown:
Ravel
Sonatine
Piano:
Boris
Berezovsky
Piano:
Balaklrev
Romanza
Piano:
Marc-Andre
Hamelin
Piano:
Radu
Lupu
: Reissues
Stephen Plaistow has been listening to the latest reissues from Testament. including a Brahms cycle from Rudolf Kempe and the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, and a 1947 recording of Ravel'sL'enfant et les sortilèges with a French cast.
Producers Clive Portbury and Patrick Lambert Discs
Contributors
Unknown:
Stephen
Plaistow
Unknown:
Rudolf
Kempe
Producers:
Clive
Portbury
Producers:
Patrick
Lambert
: Spirit of the Age
According to Boethius, music is "number made audible". If that is so, how do we hear those numbers, and why have composers from the early Middle Ages to J S Bach been so interested in weaving secret number symbolism into their music? George Pratt chairs a discussion. Producer Antony PittsContributors
Music:
George
Pratt
Producer:
Antony
Pitts
: Film in the Forties
A five-part series exploring the legacy of the 1940s film industry.3: Wicked Ladies
The critics hated them, the audiences couldn't get enough of them. Mary Beth Hamilton examines the pleasures of films like The
Wicked Lady and Madonna of the Seven Moons and asks what these passionate melodramas offered to women in the 1940s. Featuring the voices of Phyllis Calvert , Sheila Sim , Sue Harper , Richard Dyer and Pam Cook , and archive interviews with Margaret Lockwood and Patricia Roc.
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Beth
Unknown:
Phyllis
Calvert
Unknown:
Sheila
Sim
Unknown:
Sue
Harper
Unknown:
Richard
Dyer
Unknown:
Pam
Cook
Unknown:
Margaret
Lockwood
Unknown:
Patricia
Roc.
: Celebrity Recital
Dawn Upshaw (soprano) Robin Bowman (piano)Linda Ormiston presents a recital of music by Debussy, Copland,
Ruth Crawford Seeger and Berg.
Contributors
Piano:
Robin
Bowman
Piano:
Linda
Ormiston
Unknown:
Ruth Crawford
Seeger
: Behind the Masque
In the last of the series profiling practitioners of early music, Roderick Swanston talks to the conductor John EliotGardiner. With his virtuoso
Monteverdi Choir and many orchestras he has won a large following for his vibrant performances.
With excerpts from vocal music by Lejeune and Rameau performed by his teacher Nadia Boulanger. Victoria Tenebrae
Responsories
Westminster Cathedral
Choir
George Malcolm C Bach Organ Concerto in F, Op 7 No 2
Boyd Neel Orchestra/ Thurston Dart (organ)
John Eliot Gardiner himself conducts the Monteverdi
Choir and Orchestra, the English Baroque Soloists, the Orchestre
Révolutionnaire et
Romantique and the Vienna Phiharmonic in excerpts from:
Monteverdi Vespers (1610) Rameau Les Boreades
Mozart Le nozze di Figaro (Act II, finale) Schumann
Symphony No 2 in C
Lehar The Merry Widow Series producer Nick Morgan Discs
Contributors
Talks:
Roderick
Swanston
Conductor:
John
Eliot
Unknown:
Monteverdi
Choir
Unknown:
George
Malcolm
Unknown:
Thurston
Dart
Unknown:
John
Eliot
Producer:
Nick
Morgan
: Jazz Record Requests
with Geoffrey Smith. Producer Alan Hall DiscsContributors
Unknown:
Geoffrey
Smith.
Producer:
Alan
Hall
: Music Matters
Ivan Hewett looks at the art of improvisation from the Middle Ages to the present. Also, a new production of Strauss's Salome at the Royal Opera House. And why it is that performers no longer make up their own cadenzas?Producer Anthony Sellors
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Ivan
Hewett
Producer:
Anthony
Sellors
: Live from the Met
Simon Boccanegra Placido Domingo stars as the young heroGabriele Adorno in Verdi's dark drama. Set in Genoa in the 14th century, the opera follows the rise and fall of the city's first doge, Simon Boccanegra. Sung in Italian. Presented by Peter Allen.
Chorus and Orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera, conductor James Levine
Act 1
7.00 Heartbreaks in Sound with George Jellinek.
7.25 Act 2
8.25 Singers' Roundtable with Phyllis Curtin and Marilyn Home under the watchful eye of Will Crutchfield.
8.50 Act 3
Texaco supports the Metropolitan Opera Radio Network which is broadcast on R3 through the EBU
Contributors
Unknown:
Simon
Boccanegra
Unknown:
Placido
Domingo
Unknown:
Gabriele
Adorno
Unknown:
Simon
Boccanegra.
Presented By:
Peter
Allen.
Conductor:
James
Levine
Unknown:
George
Jellinek.
Unknown:
Phyllis
Curtin
Amelia Boccanegra:
Aprile
Millo (soprano)
Gabriele Adorno:
Placido
Domingo (tenor)
Simon Boccanegra:
Vladimir
Chernov (bar)
Jacopo Fiesco:
Roberto
Scandiuzzi (bass)
Paolo Albiani:
Bruno
Pola (bass)
Pietro:
Hao Jiang
Tian (baritone)
Captain:
Charles
Anthony (tenor)
Ancella:
Joyce
Olson (mezzo)
: One Thousand Bombers
On 30 May 1942, the night sky was filled with the drone of 1,000 bombers on their way to ignite Cologne. What led to the unleashing of this awesome destructive force, and what were the real results of the area bombing of enemy cities? With the voices of historians Max Hastings and Noble Frankland , readings from the diary of Flying Officer Warrender and archive material.Producers Dilly Barlow and Mark Burman
Contributors
Unknown:
Max
Hastings
Unknown:
Noble
Frankland
Producers:
Dilly
Barlow
Producers:
Mark
Burman
: Out of the Ruins
- The Kronos Quartet play music written in reaction to the destruction of war.Shostakovich String Quartet No 8 Discs
: Impressions
Brian Morton introduces a specially recorded set by pianist John Law , who plays solo and with Louis Moholo(percussion). Plus music from recent CDs by saxophonist
Rickey Woodard , the group Affinity and drummer Bobby Lurie , and a reissue from clarinettist Bill Smith.
Producer Derek Drescher
Contributors
Introduces:
Brian
Morton
Pianist:
John
Law
Unknown:
Louis
Moholo
Unknown:
Rickey
Woodard
Unknown:
Bobby
Lurie
Clarinettist:
Bill
Smith.
Producer:
Derek
Drescher
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