Listings
: Record Review
With Richard Osborne.Ravel, arr Bourgeois Alborada del Gracioso
Williams Fairey Band, director Bryan Hurdley
7.11 Mozart Concerto in C for Flute and Harp, K299
Emmanuel Pahud (flute),
Marie-Pierre Langlamet (harp), Berlin Philharmonic, conductor Claudio Abbado
7.40 Christopher Headington Serenade for Cello and Strings
Alexander Baillie , Britten Sinfonia, conductor Nicholas Cleobury
7.53 Satie Parade
Duo Campion-Vachon (piano duet/sirens/lottery wheel/water puddles/typewriter/revolver)
8.07 Franck Le Manage des Roses Chausson Le Temps des Lilas
Faure Green; Les Roses d'lspahan Chabrier Lied
Felicity Lott (soprano),
Graham Johnson (piano) 8.24 Walton Violin Concerto
Joshua Bell , Baltimore Symphony
Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
Contributors
Unknown:
Richard
Osborne.
Director:
Bryan
Hurdley
Flute:
Emmanuel
Pahud
Harp:
Marie-Pierre
Langlamet
Conductor:
Claudio
Abbado
Unknown:
Alexander
Baillie
Conductor:
Nicholas
Cleobury
Soprano:
Felicity
Lott
Piano:
Graham
Johnson
Unknown:
Joshua
Bell
Conductor:
David
Zinman
: Building a Library
Roger Nichols compares the available recordings of Saint-Saens's operaSamson et Dalila. Stephen Plaistow reviews new releases of Russian piano music by Bortkiewicz, Roslavets, Prokofiev and Gubaidulina, and a Scriabin disc from Mikhail Pletnev.
Revised repeat tomorrow 11.45pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Roger
Nichols
Unknown:
Mikhail
Pletnev.
: Record Release
Prokofiev Toccata, Op 11 Eteri Andjaparidze (piano)10.21 Rostavets Two Compositions Marc-Andre Hamelin (piano)
10.29 Gubaidulina Chaconne
Beatrice Rauchs (piano)
10.40 Scriabin 24 Preludes, Op 11 Mikhail Pletnev (piano)
Contributors
Piano:
Marc-Andre
Hamelin
Piano:
Gubaidulina
Chaconne
Piano:
Beatrice
Rauchs
Piano:
Mikhail
Pletnev
: Reissues
Chris de Souza has been listening to reissues of 20th-century English music on the Belart, Avid, Dutton and Testament labels, including music by Elgar, Bax, Hoist, Vaughan Williams and Walton from AdrianBoult and George Weldon. Discs
Producers Susan Kenyon and Clive Portbury E-MAIL: record.review@bbc.co.uk
DISC DETAILS: see BBC1 Ceefax page 651
Contributors
Unknown:
Vaughan
Williams
Unknown:
George
Weldon.
Producers:
Susan
Kenyon
Producers:
Clive
Portbury
: Private Passions
Michael Berkeley 's guest this week is Denis Quilley , one of Britain's most versatile actors. Formerly a member of the National Theatre and now with Sir Peter Hall 's company at the Old Vic, he has starred in a wide range of plays, from Shakespeare to musicals such as Sweeney Todd. His film credits include Privates on Parade, Murder on the OrientExpress and Evil under the Sun with Peter Ustinov. And his musical tastes are equally wide-ranging, including Rodgers and Hammerstein. Lehar, Haydn, Poulenc, Butterworth and Britten.
Executive producer Wendy Thompson Repeated Friday 2pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Michael
Berkeley
Unknown:
Denis
Quilley
Unknown:
Sir Peter
Hall
Unknown:
Sweeney
Todd.
Unknown:
Peter
Ustinov.
Producer:
Wendy
Thompson
: Vintage Years
Vladimir AshkenazyVladimir Ashkenazy is 60 tomorrow. In the fifth of six programmes, Chris de Souza introduces Ashkenazy's performances of music by composers with whom he is particularly involved, including his performance of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No 3, recorded on his triumphant return to Russia in 1989, Scriabin's Poem of Ecstasy and Strauss's Don Juan. Cellist Lynn Harrell talks about his collaboration with Ashkenazy and joins him and violinist Itzhak Perlman in Ravel's Piano Trio in A minor.
Contributors
Unknown:
Vladimir
Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Vladimir
Ashkenazy
Unknown:
Don
Juan.
Talks:
Lynn
Harrell
Violinist:
Itzhak
Perlman
: Cardiff Singer of the World Masterclass
The second of three programmes from the masterclasses at this year's competition.Dame Joan Sutherland and Yevgeni Nesterenko talk to Elaine Padmore about their teaching and give the singers some tips.
Contributors
Unknown:
Dame Joan
Sutherland
Unknown:
Yevgeni
Nesterenko
Unknown:
Elaine
Padmore
: Ulster Orchestra
Conductor Nicholas BraithwaiteBerwald Symphony No 2 in D (Sinfonie Capricieuse)
Sibelius Symphony No 2 Repeat
Contributors
Conductor:
Nicholas
Braithwaite
: Jazz Record Requests
Geoffrey Smith introduces another selection of vibrant and varied jazz tracks chosen by listeners. Producer Alan HallDiscs
ADDRESS: Jazz Record Requests. BBC Radio 3. Broadcasting House, London W1A 4WW
FAX: [number removed]
Contributors
Introduces:
Geoffrey
Smith
Producer:
Alan
Hall
: Music Matters
Ivan Hewett with the latest news and events in the musical world.This week a look at Leonard
Bernstein's A White House Cantata, which is only now receiving its world premiere; singers from the Royal Opera House rehearsing Verdi's Macbeth; and why the French composer Eric Satie wrote the piece Vexations, which lasts 14 hours. Producer Jessica Isaacs
Repeated tomorrow 12.15pm See also Tuesday 10.45pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Ivan
Hewett
Unknown:
Eric
Satie
Producer:
Jessica
Isaacs
: Jean-Yves Thibaudet
Geoffrey Baskerville introduces a recital of Debussy and Liszt given in Stromness Town Hall by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet as part of the 1995 St Magnus Festival.Debussy Preludes (Book 1, selection); Etudes (selection)
Liszt Jeux d'Eau a la Villa d'Este;
Ballade No 2 in B minor
Wagner, arr Liszt Liebestod (Tristan and Isolde)
Liszt Mephisto Waltz No 1
Schubert, arr Liszt Erlkonig, D328
(Repeat)
Contributors
Introduces:
Geoffrey
Baskerville
Unknown:
Yves
Thibaudet
: Royal Opera Verdi Festival
MacbethI From the Royal Opera
I House, Covent Garden.
The first performance of Verdi's
Macbeth took place in Florence in 1847. Later, Verdi revised it for performances at the Theatre Lyrique in Paris, and that version is the one usually heard nowadays. This live relay provides a chance to hear Verdi's opera as it was originally intended. It is sung in Italian, and introduced by Piers Burton-Page and Michael Oliver , who has described
Macbeth as "Verdi's first copper-bottomed masterpiece".
Chorus and Orchestra of the Royal Opera House, conductor Edward Downes
Acts 1 and 2 9.20 The Three Macbeths
Verdi loved the plays of Shakespeare, but had no compunction about changing and cutting them to fit in with the demands of opera. He had two goes at Macbeth, and Tom Rosenthal unpicks the differences between tonight's 1847 version and the 1865 Paris version, comparing the two librettos and illustrating the changes that were made.
9.40 Acts 3 and 4
Contributors
Introduced By:
Piers
Burton-Page
Introduced By:
Michael
Oliver
Conductor:
Edward
Downes
Conductor:
Tom
Rosenthal
Macbeth:
Anthony
Michaels-Moore (baritone)
Banquo:
Roberto
Scandiuzzi (bass)
Lady Macbeth:
Georgina
Lukacs (soprano)
Lady-in-Waiting:
Jennifer
Rhys-Davies (soprano)
Macduff:
Dennis
O'Neill (tenor)
Malcolm:
Robin
Leggate (tenor)
Doctor:
Richard
Robson (bass)
Servant:
Jonathan
Coad (bass)
Murderer:
Wyndham
Parfitt (bass)
Three apparitions:
Donaldson
Bell (baritone)
Three apparitions:
Andrea
Hazell (mezzo)
Three apparitions:
Glenys
Groves (soprano)
: Books Abroad
The start of an eight-part series in which author Tibor Fischer meets writers and explores the works on the shelves of bookshops around the world. This week, the scandalising Italian cannibal writers, the best bookshop in Cologne and African oral poetry from Somalia to Burundi.Producer Rob Ketteridge See also Friday 8.10pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Tibor
Fischer
Producer:
Rob
Ketteridge
: David Murray
American saxophonist and composer David Murray has won many awards and is one of the most prolific of jazz musicians. Last October, his big band toured the country for the Contemporary Music Network playing music specially commissioned by Birmingham Jazz. The band comprised seven members of Murray's New York big band, including James Spaulding (alto sax), Craig Harris (trombone) and whistler Joel Brandon , plus eleven musicians from the UK and special guest, poet Lemn Sisay. Alyn Shipton introduces the London concert and. during the interval, talks to David Murray about his career.Producer Derek Drescher
Contributors
Unknown:
David
Murray
Unknown:
James
Spaulding
Unknown:
Craig
Harris
Unknown:
Joel
Brandon
Unknown:
Lemn
Sisay.
Introduces:
Alyn
Shipton
Unknown:
David
Murray
Producer:
Derek
Drescher
: Through the Night
With Donald Macleod.1.30 Jazz from France
with Jaques Thollot (drums), Henri Louther (trumpet), Tony Hymos (piano) and Claude Tchamitchian (double bass)
2.35 Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, conductor Muhai Tang, Tobias Ringborg (violin)
Andras Hultqvist Time and the Bell
Mendelssohn Violin Concerto in E minor
Shostakovich Symphony No 6
4.00 Jupiter Quartet
Haydn String Quartet in G minor, Op 74 No 3
Beethoven String Quartet in E flat, Op 74 (Harp)
Smetana String Quartet No 1 in E minor (From My Life)
5.20 Irish National Symphony Orchestra, conductor Kasper de Roo. Barry Douglas (piano)
Gerald Barry Flamboys
Beethoven Piano Concerto No 4 in G
6.00 Sequence
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod
Unknown:
Jaques
Thollot
Unknown:
Henri
Louther
Piano:
Tony
Hymos
Piano:
Claude
Tchamitchian
Conductor:
Muhai
Tang
Violin:
Tobias
Ringborg
Violin:
Andras
Hultqvist
Conductor:
Kasper de
Roo
Piano:
Barry
Douglas
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