Listings
: On Air
With Andrew McGregor.Brahms Viola Sonata in F minor,
Op 120 No I Yuri Bashmet , Vasili Lobanov (piano)
6.41 Handel Music for the Royal Fireworks
English Concert, director Trevor Pinnock
7.05 Komgold Prelude and Serenade Montreal Symphony Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
7.32 Schumann Overture: Manfred
Cleveland Orchestra, conductor George Szell
8.05 Shostakovich The Street; How Good Life Will Be; Stay!; March (Film music: Alone)
Minsk Chamber Choir,
Byelorussian Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra, conductor Walter Mnatsakanov
8.31 Mozart Piano Quartet in G minor, K478 Leif Ove Andsnes ,
L'Archibudelli Trio
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
McGregor.
Unknown:
Yuri
Bashmet
Piano:
Vasili
Lobanov
Piano:
Handel
Music
Director:
Trevor
Pinnock
Conductor:
Charles
Dutoit
Conductor:
George
Szell
Conductor:
Walter
Mnatsakanov
Unknown:
Leif Ove
Andsnes
: Morning Collection
With Penny Gore.Adams The Chairman Dances
San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, conductor Edo de Waart
9.14 Granados Escenas Romanticas
Alicia de Larrocha (piano)
9.39 Grieg Holberg Suite
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra Discs
Contributors
Conductor:
Edo
de Waart
Piano:
Alicia
de Larrocha
: Musical Encounters
With Edward Blakeman , including10.05 Ravel Rapsodie Espagnole French National Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
10.25 Artist of the Week:
Peter Pears (tenor) Tippett Songs for Ariel
Benjamin Britten (piano)
10.30 Wiren Serenade for Strings BBC Symphony Orchestra. conductor Thomas Dausgaard
11.00 Britten Les Illuminations
Peter Pears (tenor),
English Chamber Orchestra, conducted by the Composer
11.25 Massenet Piano Concerto in E flat Stephen Coombs ,
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conductor Jean-Yves Ossonce
Contributors
Unknown:
Edward
Blakeman
Conductor:
Charles
Dutoit
Tenor:
Peter
Pears
Piano:
Wiren
Serenade
Conductor:
Thomas
Dausgaard
Conductor:
Britten Les
Illuminations
Tenor:
Peter
Pears
Unknown:
Stephen
Coombs
Conductor:
Jean-Yves
Ossonce
: Composer of the Week: Haydn
The Haydn Revival, 1932-96Richard Wigmore traces Haydn's steady comeback from a century of neglect. After the war, a young American officer founded the Haydn Society and produced many premiere recordings in Vienna. HC Robbins Landon remembers his pioneering days.
String Quartet in D minor, Op 103 (3rd mvt)
Busch Quartet
Missa Cellensis in Honorem BVM
(Missa Sanctae Ceciliae) (excerpt) Soloists, Vienna Academy Chamber Choir, Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conductor Hans Gillesberger Symphony No 56 in C
Vienna State Opera Orchestra, conductor Anton Heiller
Piano Sonata in D, H XVI 51
Virginia Pleasants
Repeated next Tuesday 11.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
Wigmore
Unknown:
Robbins
Landon
Conductor:
Hans
Gillesberger
Conductor:
Anton
Heiller
: The BBC Orchestras
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra Conductor Gaetano Delogu , Ulf Hoelscher (violin)Dvorak Overture: Husitska
Prokofiev Violin Concerto No 2
Brahms Symphony No 4 in E minor
Contributors
Conductor:
Gaetano
Delogu
Violin:
Ulf
Hoelscher
: Voices
In another of his irreverent compilations of songs from all eras, lain Burnside takes a look at some songs of youth and adolescence. Repeated from yesterday 10.00pm: The BBC Orchestras
BBC PhilharmonicConductor Vasili Sinaisky Szymanowski Concert Overture;
Symphony No 2
: Spirit of the Age
The third programme in the monthly series on the history of dance, with Jeremy Barlow and Michelene Wandor.Musicians and Dancers
Until the 19th century, dance instructors were also musicians, playing the fiddle as they taught their pupils. Dancing and playing have since diverged, but dance can still tell us a great deal about musical performance.
Repeated from Sunday 3.05pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Jeremy
Barlow
Unknown:
Michelene
Wandor.
: Music Machine Icons of the Decades
The SixtiesVerity Sharp talks to Elizabeth Thomson , editor of The Dylan
Companion, about the impact of Bob Dylan 's music in the sixties.
Contributors
Talks:
Verity
Sharp
Unknown:
Elizabeth
Thomson
Unknown:
Bob
Dylan
: In Tune
Sean Rafferty 's guests tonight are conductor Charles Hazlewood and composer Michael Alcom , who look forward to Friday evening's Ulster Orchestra concert from the Sonorities festival which is being broadcast live on BBC Radio 3.5.30 Faure Elegy in C minor, Op 24 Janos Starker, Philharmonia, conductor Walter Susskind
6.05 Handel, arr Harty Water Music Ulster Orchestra, conductor Bryden Thomson
6.45 Roussel Suite in F
Paris Orchestra, conductor Charles Dutoit
Producer David Byers
Contributors
Unknown:
Sean
Rafferty
Conductor:
Charles
Hazlewood
Unknown:
Michael
Alcom
Conductor:
Walter
Susskind
Conductor:
Bryden
Thomson
Conductor:
Roussel
Suite
Conductor:
Charles
Dutoit
Producer:
David
Byers
: Live at Turner Sims
Paul Guinery introduces the first in a series of five recitals from the Turner Sims Hall , Southampton.Artur Pizarro (piano)
Chopin Four Ballades: in G minor, Op 23; in F, Op 38; in A flat, Op 47; in F minor, Op 52
8.10 The Music
Five stories from James Hamilton -
Paterson's short-story collection The Music, a series of tales with a wide range of settings linked by the theme of music.
1: Knight
An American pilot captured in Vietnam is determined not to reveal any military secrets. Then he hears someone playing Bach on a piano. Read by Ron Berglas.
8.30 Scriabin 24 Preludes, Op 11 Stravinsky, transcr Agosti Three Pieces from "The Firebird"
SOUNDING THE CENTURY
Contributors
Introduces:
Paul
Guinery
Unknown:
Turner Sims
Hall
Unknown:
James
Hamilton
Read By:
Ron
Berglas.
: Icarus Rising
Five programmes exploring the impact on western imagination of the creation of the aeroplane.2: Victory over the Sun. The canvas of the painter and the canvas wrapped around the first flimsy flying machines fused into a most extraordinary period of creativity. But why should the avant-garde find themselves inexorably drawn towards the rotating blades of the aeroplane?
: The BBC Orchestras
BBC National Orchestra of WalesConductor Tadaaki Otaka
Takemitsu Dreamtime
Maw The World in the Evening
Contributors
Conductor:
Tadaaki
Otaka
: Night Waves
Edmund White first won international acclaim for his autobiographical account of a young man coming to terms with homosexuality in A Boy's Own Story. He returned to the theme in The Beautiful Room Is Empty, and in a new novel, The FarewellSymphony. Edmund White talks to Richard Coles about his fiction and the changing sexual climate which it charts. Charles Nicholl investigates the lost years of the young
Arthur Rimbaud. Why did the poet turn his back on Paris and fame in favour of a life wandering in East Africa? Plus a first-night review of Lorca's Donna Rosita , directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Producer Abigail Appleton
Contributors
Unknown:
Edmund
White
Talks:
Edmund
White
Unknown:
Richard
Coles
Unknown:
Charles
Nicholl
Unknown:
Arthur
Rimbaud.
Unknown:
Donna
Rosita
Directed By:
Phyllida
Lloyd.
Producer:
Abigail
Appleton
: Composer of the Week Rachmaninov
After the morale-boosting success of the Second Piano Concerto,Rachmaninov wrote some of his most successful compositions in quick succession, including his only major chamber work. Stephen Hough introduces a rare early recording by Shura Cherkassky , and Peter Donohoe discusses some of the Opus 32 Preludes and Rachmaninov's own approach to performance. Including Preludes: in F, Op 32 No 7; in E, Op 32 No 3
The Composer (piano) (1940)
Prelude in B minor, Op 32 No 10 Benno Moisewitsch (piano) (1940) Cello Sonata in G minor, Op 19 Marcel Hubert ,
Shura Cherkassky (piano) (1935) Repeated from last Tuesday
Contributors
Introduces:
Stephen
Hough
Unknown:
Shura
Cherkassky
Unknown:
Peter
Donohoe
Piano:
Benno
Moisewitsch
Unknown:
Marcel
Hubert
Piano:
Shura
Cherkassky
: Jazz Notes
Digby Fairweather presents the first of three programmes featuring Andy Sheppard 's Moving Image, recorded at Ronnie Scott 's, Birmingham. Part 2 tomorrowContributors
Unknown:
Digby
Fairweather
Unknown:
Andy
Sheppard
Unknown:
Ronnie
Scott
: Through the Night
With Donald Macleod.1.00 Haydn String Quartets A series in which leading ensembles perform Haydn's finest quartets. Lindsay
Quartet Haydn String Quartet in D, Op 50 No 6 (Frog) Bartok String Quartet No 6
1.55 Brahms Piano Concerto No 1 in D minor Rudolf Buchbinder ,
Vienna Symphony Orchestra, conductor Horst Stein
3.00 Schools
3.00 Playtime 3.15 Time to Move
3.35 Let's Make a Story 3.50
History (9-11) 4.10 In the News
4.30 CSYS English
5.00 Sequence
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod.
Unknown:
Rudolf
Buchbinder
Conductor:
Horst
Stein
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