Listings
: On Air
Andrew McGregor with news, weather, information and music including Purcell From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War (Wedding Ode, Z325)Gillian Fisher and Tessa Bonner
(sopranos), Rogers Covey-Crump and Charles Daniels (tenors), Michael George (bass), The King's Consort, director Robert King
6.20 Harty Piano Concerto in B minor Malcolm Binns ,
Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
7.05 Albeniz La Torre Bermeja Slava Grigoryan (guitar)
7.32 Copland Ballet: Rodeo Baltimore SO, conductor David Zinman
8.05 Trad Jewish Der Heyser Bulgar Itzhak Perlman (violin),
Klezmer Conservatory Band
8.35 Rebel Les Siemens
Musica Antiqua Koln, director Reinhard Goebel
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
McGregor
Unknown:
Gillian
Fisher
Sopranos:
Tessa
Bonner
Sopranos:
Rogers
Covey-Crump
Tenors:
Charles
Daniels
Bass:
Michael
George
Director:
Robert
King
Unknown:
Malcolm
Binns
Conductor:
Bryden
Thomson
Guitar:
Slava
Grigoryan
Conductor:
David
Zinman
Violin:
Itzhak
Perlman
Director:
Reinhard
Goebel
: Morning Collection with Paul Gambaccini
Schubert, transcr Liszt Fantasy in C (Wandererfantasie)Michel Beroff (piano),
Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, conductor Kurt Masur
9.20 Saint-Saens Symphony No 3 in C minor (Organ)
Simon Preston (organ), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor James Levine
Discs
Contributors
Piano:
Michel
Beroff
Conductor:
Kurt
Masur
Unknown:
Simon
Preston
Conductor:
James
Levine
: Musical Encounters
With Chris Wines.Vivaldi Violin Concerto in E flat, RV253 (La Tempesta di Mare) Alice Harnoncourt ,
Vienna Concentus Musicus , director Nikolaus Harnoncourt
10.10 Nielsen Commotio , Op 58 Thomas Trotter (organ)
10.31 Anon Splendens Ceprigera (Libre Vermeil)
New London Consort, director Philip Pickett
10.26 Boccherini Guitar Quintet in D, G449
Paganini Ensemble
11.13 Ran Mirage
Da Capo Chamber Players
11.30 Prom Artist of the Week:
Daniel Barenboim (conductor)
Mahler Abschied (Das Lied von der Erde) Waltraud Meier (mezzo),
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Contributors
Unknown:
Alice
Harnoncourt
Unknown:
Vienna Concentus
Musicus
Director:
Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
Director:
Nielsen
Commotio
Unknown:
Thomas
Trotter
Director:
Philip
Pickett
Conductor:
Daniel
Barenboim
Unknown:
Waltraud
Meier
: Composer of the Week: Bach
Historic recordings of Bach's instrumental music.4: Lipatti and the Postwar Years Partita No 1 in B flat, BWV825 Dinu Lipatti (piano)
Violin Concerto No 2 in E, BWV1042 Arthur Grumiaux ,
English Chamber Orchestra Suite No 1 in G, BWV1007
Pierre Fournier (cello)
Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
Contributors
Piano:
Dinu
Lipatti
Unknown:
Arthur
Grumiaux
Cello:
Pierre
Fournier
: The Afternoon on Three
With Fiona Talkington.1.00 We Must Get Together Some Time
Solo arias may account for many operatic highlights, but where would we be without ensembles? The action is in the interaction - or sometimes, just as in real life, the lack of it. Gordon Stewart introduces three programmes in which operatic characters get together to agree, disagree, further the plot or to hold it up with needless bickering.
1: All's fair in love and war as a formidable cahort of tarts, murderers, cobblers, gaolers, rakes and noblemen fight through life in music from Monteverdi and Mozart to
Wagner and Verdi. Repeat
2.00 Vanbnigh Quartet
Beethoven String Quartet in G, Op 18 No 2
Bartok String Quartet No 6
Beethoven String Quartet in C sharp minor, Op 131
3.45 The BBC Orchestras
BBC Philharmonic
Conductor Gunther Herbig
Mozart Overture: Le Nozze di Figaro: Symphony No 36 in C, K425 (Linz) Beethoven Symphony No 6 in F (Pastoral)
Contributors
Unknown:
Fiona
Talkington.
Introduces:
Gordon
Stewart
Conductor:
Gunther
Herbig
: The Music Machine
ScalesTommy Pearson on one of the revolutions in music - the 12-tone technique. Suddenly all the notes are equal, but are some more equal than others?
Repeat
Contributors
Unknown:
Tommy
Pearson
: In Tune
From the Bridgewater Hall, Manchester's new concert venue, which opens this week with a series of concerts by the HalleOrchestra. Presenter Lynne Walker 's guests include principal architect Nicholas Thompson , some of the musicians who will perform in it, and some of the composers whose music will be heard during the week. There is also an opportunity to hear excerpts from the first recording made in the hall:
Hoist Mars, the Bringer of War (Suite: The Planets)
BBC Philharmonic/Yan Pascal Tortelier
6.45 Chopin Ballade No 4 in F minor, Op 52
Murray Perahia (piano)
7.03 Vaughan Williams Two Songs of Travel
Bryn Terfel (baritone),
Malcolm Martineau (piano) Producer Paul Hindmarsh
Contributors
Presenter:
Lynne
Walker
Unknown:
Nicholas
Thompson
Piano:
Murray
Perahia
Piano:
Malcolm
Martineau
Producer:
Paul
Hindmarsh
: BBC Proms 1996
Tonight, from the "Windy City", comes one of the world's most renowned orchestras, whose reputation is based on their performances of major 20th-century scores, such as the SchoenbergPieces (famously premiered at the Proms by Henry Wood), as well as the peaks of the Romantic repertoire, like Bruckner's eighth - continuing his centenary celebrations.
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Daniel Barenboim
Schoenberg Five Pieces for Orchestra, Op 16
7.50 Prom Artist of the Week Daniel
Barenboim is the ninth music director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
This programme explores the different stages of his musical career, including his 26-year relationship with the orchestra. During the course of their collaboration, he has appeared as conductor, soloist and recitalist.
8.10 Bruckner Symphony No 8 in C minor
Contributors
Conductor:
Daniel
Barenboim
: Each Morning Once More Seamless
Australian poet Les Murray introduces and reads a selection of poems including The Year of the Kiln Portraits and Australian Love Poem.Repeat
: Music Restored
George Pratt introduces the first of seven programmes from the 1996 York Early Music Festival.Jacob Heringman plays lute music by Antony Holbome in the Chapel at
Bishopthorpe Palace. Crispian Steele-Perkins plays trumpet music by John James , Purcell and Handel - accompanied on the harpsichord by Peter Seymour - in the Tempest
Anderson Hall in Yorkshire Museum.
Producer Mark Rowlinson
Repeated tomorrow 2.15pm
Contributors
Introduces:
George
Pratt
Unknown:
Jacob
Heringman
Music By:
Antony
Holbome
Music By:
John
James
Unknown:
Peter
Seymour
Unknown:
Yorkshire
Museum.
Producer:
Mark
Rowlinson
: The D-D-Drunken P-P-Poet
Thomas Durfey was one of the most versatile musical personalities of the Restoration as a composer, player, singer, collector, writer, publisher and entrepreneur. Friendly with all the great figures of the time, Durfey is the model affectionately parodied as the drunken (and stammering) poet in Purcell's The Fairy Queen. Today, he is best known for the great collection of popular songs and ballads Pills toPurge Melancholy that went on to feed The Beggar's Opera and its successors. With contributions from
Richard Luckett , Andrew Pinnock , Roger Savage , Don Taylor and Christopher Wheatley. Repeat
Contributors
Unknown:
Thomas
Durfey
Unknown:
Richard
Luckett
Unknown:
Andrew
Pinnock
Unknown:
Roger
Savage
Unknown:
Don
Taylor
Unknown:
Christopher
Wheatley.
: Composers of the Week: Falla, Gerhard and the Heritage of Spain
With Calum MacDonald.4: Pasts and Futures
Falla Harpsichord Concerto Gerhard Concerto for Eight
Falla El Gran Teatro del Mundo
Gerhard Libra
Repeated from last Thursday
Contributors
Unknown:
Calum
MacDonald.
: Jan Notes
With Digby Fairweather. The conclusion of the concert featuring Kenny Davern , Ken Peplowski and Dave Cliff.Contributors
Unknown:
Digby
Fairweather.
Unknown:
Kenny
Davern
Unknown:
Ken
Peplowski
Unknown:
Dave
Cliff.
: Through the Night
With Donald Macleod.1.00 Choral Evensong from St Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London Repeated from yesterday 4.00pm
2.00 Maurice Hasson (violin), Michel Becquet (trombone),
Jean-Marc Luisada (piano), Toulouse Capitole
Orchestra, conductor Michel Plasson
Beethoven Violin Concerto in D Martin
Ballade Grieg Piano Concerto in A minor
3.30 II Giardino Armonico play Italian and Austrian Baroque music
5.00 Sequence
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod.
Violin:
Maurice
Hasson
Violin:
Michel
Becquet
Piano:
Jean-Marc
Luisada
Conductor:
Michel
Plasson
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