Listings
: On Air
With Stephanie Hughes , including Haydn Mass in G (Missa Rorate Coeli Desuper)Choir of Christ Church Cathedral,
Oxford, Academy of Ancient Music, director Simon Preston
6.39 Brahms Violin Sonata No 3 in D minor, Op 108 Yehudi Menuhin , Hephzibah Menuhin (piano)
7.04 Grieg How Fair Thou Art, Op 74 No
David Wilson-Johnson (baritone),
Polyphony, conductor Stephen Layton
7.47 lbert Trio in C
Jascha Heifetz (violin),
Joseph de Pasquelle (harp), Gregor Piatigorsky (cello)
8.05 Glinka Overture: Ruslan and Ludmilla
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Fritz Reiner
8.51 Nielsen Pan and Syrinx Danish National Radio SO, conductor Gennadi Rozhdestvensky
Contributors
Unknown:
Stephanie
Hughes
Director:
Simon
Preston
Unknown:
Yehudi
Menuhin
Piano:
Hephzibah
Menuhin
Baritone:
David
Wilson-Johnson
Conductor:
Stephen
Layton
Violin:
Jascha
Heifetz
Harp:
Joseph
de Pasquelle
Cello:
Gregor
Piatigorsky
Conductor:
Fritz
Reiner
Conductor:
Gennadi
Rozhdestvensky
: Morning Collection
With Peter Hobday.Dvorak Serenade in D minor, Op 44 English Chamber Orchestra Wind Ensemble
9.26 Josquin Benedicta Es, Celorum Regina Early Music Consort of London, conductor David Munrow
9.33 Britten Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge
Academy of St Martin in the Fields, conductor Neville Marriner Discs
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Hobday.
Unknown:
Dvorak
Serenade
Unknown:
Celorum
Regina
Conductor:
David
Munrow
Conductor:
Neville
Marriner
: Musical Encounters
With Mary Miller.Neruda Trumpet Concerto in E flat Ole Edvard Antonsen , ECO/Geoffrey Tate
10.17 Artist of the Week:
Sena Jurinac (soprano)
Beethoven 0 War'lch Schon mit Dir
Vereint (Fidelio)
Vienna Philharmonic, conductor Wilhelm Furtwangler
10.22 Haydn Symphony No 96 in D (Miracle)
BBC Scottish SO/Martyn Brabbins
10.48 Ravel Gaspard de la Nuit Boris Berezovsky (piano)
11.10 Niles Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair
Jennifer Larmore (mezzo), Antoine Palloc (piano)
11.15 Masterprize:
Gerald Levinson Five Fires
BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, director Alexander Titov (piano)
11.25 Shostakovich Festival
Overture
National Youth Orchestra of Scotland, conductor Christopher Seaman
11.32 Beethoven Mir 1st So
Wunderbar (Fidelio)
Sena Jurinac (soprano), Vienna
Philharmonic/Wilhelm Furtwangler
11.43 Schumann Marchenbilder,
Op 113 Paul Coletti (viola), Leslie Howard (piano)
Contributors
Unknown:
Mary
Miller.
Unknown:
Ole Edvard
Antonsen
: Composer of the Week: Prokofiev
4: Music for the TheatreEdward Downes conducted the first performance in this country of Prokofiev's epic opera War and Peacein the 1960s. He introduces a substantial excerpt from the recent Kirov Opera production and talks to Humphrey Carpenter about the composer's transformation of ballet music, The Prodigal Son, into a symphony.
War and Peace (Scene 1)
Soloists, Chorus and Orchestra of the Kirov Opera, conductor Valery Gergiev Symphony No 4
BBCPO, conductor Edward Downes Repeated next Thursday 11.30pm
Contributors
Unknown:
Edward
Downes
Unknown:
Humphrey
Carpenter
Conductor:
Valery
Gergiev
Conductor:
Edward
Downes
: The Operatic Year
The fourth of five programmes in which Hugh Canning and Andrew Clements discuss some of the outstanding new CD opera issues of the year with Michael Oliver , who introduces excerpts from the recordings. This week two of the recordings under consideration are conducted by Marc Minkowski , with Annick Massis in the principal soprano role: Boieldieu's La Dame Blanche, also featuring Rockwell Blake , and Rossini's L'lngannoFelice, featuring Raul Gimenez and Rodney Gilfrey. The other opera is
Bellini's La Sonnambula , conducted by Alberto Zedda , with Luba Orgonasowa and Raul Gimenez.
Contributors
Unknown:
Hugh
Canning
Unknown:
Andrew
Clements
Unknown:
Michael
Oliver
Conducted By:
Marc
Minkowski
Unknown:
Annick
Massis
Unknown:
Rockwell
Blake
Unknown:
Raul
Gimenez
Unknown:
Rodney
Gilfrey.
Unknown:
La
Sonnambula
Conducted By:
Alberto
Zedda
Unknown:
Luba
Orgonasowa
Unknown:
Raul
Gimenez.
: The BBC Orchestras
BBC Symphony Orchestra Conductor Andrew Davis ,John Lill (piano)
Wagner Overture: Die Meistersinger Conductor Andrew Davis
Hindemith Symphonic Metamorphoses
Conductor Giinther Herbig
Prokofiev Piano Concerto No 3
Shostakovich Symphony No 5
Contributors
Conductor:
Andrew
Davis
Piano:
John
Lill
Conductor:
Andrew
Davis
Conductor:
Giinther
Herbig
: Ensemble
Repeated from yesterday 10pm: Music Machine Bells
Tommy Pearson discovers the ways in which bells feature in music and culture around the world, with the help of David Fanshawe.Contributors
Unknown:
Tommy
Pearson
Unknown:
David
Fanshawe.
: In Tune
Sean Rafferty brings wayfarers, wanderers, swans, circuses, sunrises and sunsets to life in music by Butterworth, Satie, Schubert and Tchaikovsky. The music selection also includes Corelli's ChristmasConcerto, performed by I Musici at
5.40. Sean Rafferty also attempts a flamenco dance and looks at
Frederick Ashton 's relationship with Beatrix Potter.
Contributors
Unknown:
Sean
Rafferty
Unknown:
Sean
Rafferty
Unknown:
Frederick
Ashton
Unknown:
Beatrix
Potter.
: Performance on 3 Macbeth
Verdi's operatic version of Shakespeare's play, to a libretto by Francesco Maria Piave , in a new production by Graham Vick. The performance opened the season at La Scala, Milan, earlier this month.Chorus and Orchestra of the Teatro alia Scala, conductor Riccardo Muti
Acts 1 and 2 8.20 Directing
Verdi Daniel Snowman considers changing styles of Verdi production from the composer's own time to the present and talks to directors David Pountney and Elijah Moshinsky and music historian Roger Parker about the best and worst ways of staging the operas of Verdi.
8.40 Acts 3 and 4
Contributors
Unknown:
Francesco Maria
Piave
Production By:
Graham
Vick.
Conductor:
Riccardo
Muti
Unknown:
Verdi Daniel
Snowman
Directors:
David
Pountney
Directors:
Elijah
Moshinsky
Unknown:
Roger
Parker
Macbeth:
Renato
Bruson (baritone)
Lady Macbeth:
Maria
Guleghina (soprano)
Macduff:
Roberto
Alagna (tenor)
Banquo:
Carlo
Colobara (bass)
Malcolm:
Fabio
Sartori (tenor)
Lady-in-waiting:
Marcella
Polidori(mezzo)
Doctor:
Enrico
Turco (bass)
Servant:
Danilo
Serraiocco (bass)
Herald:
Aldo
Bramante (bass)
: Spanish Love Songs
Robert Schumann 'sSpanische Liebeslieder , intermingling songs for vocal quartet with pieces for piano duet. Eiddwen Harrhy (soprano),
Janet Baker (mezzo), Dale Lawrence (tenor), Thomas Allen (baritone), Geoffrey Parsons and Christopher Middleton (piano)
Contributors
Unknown:
Robert
Schumann
Unknown:
Spanische
Liebeslieder
Soprano:
Janet
Baker
Tenor:
Dale
Lawrence
Tenor:
Thomas
Allen
Baritone:
Geoffrey
Parsons
Baritone:
Christopher
Middleton
: Night Waves
Live from New YorkHumphrey Carpenter meets
Don DeLillo , one of the masters of modern
American fiction, whose work draws on the subcultural codes of American life. His new novel is likely to prove the publishing event of the New Year. From ethereal, lyrical photos of women to a vat of voice-activated bubbling mud, the work of Robert Rauschenberg is some of the most inventive in contemporary art.
Humphrey Carpenter and guests discuss his major retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum.
Plus news from Broadway, where EL Doctorow 's great novel Ragtime has just opened as a musical and Paul Simon 's The Capeman is in preview. Producer Fiona Bailey
Contributors
Unknown:
Humphrey
Carpenter
Unknown:
Don
Delillo
Unknown:
Robert
Rauschenberg
Unknown:
Humphrey
Carpenter
Unknown:
El
Doctorow
Unknown:
Paul
Simon
Producer:
Fiona
Bailey
: Composer of the Week Goehr
With Piers Burton-Page . 4: Modelled on the PastMetamorphosis Dance
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, conductor David Atherton
Piano Concerto (2nd mvt)
Peter Serkin , London Sinfonietta, conductor Oliver Knussen
The Death of Moses (excerpts)
Soloists, Sawston Village College
Chamber Choir, Cambridge University Musical Society Chorus, instrumental ensemble, conductor Stephen Cleobury Repeated from last Thursday
Contributors
Unknown:
Piers
Burton-Page
Conductor:
David
Atherton
Unknown:
Peter
Serkin
Conductor:
Oliver
Knussen
Conductor:
Stephen
Cleobury
: Jazz Notes
Digby Fairweather continues the Fletcher Henderson retrospective.Contributors
Unknown:
Digby
Fairweather
Unknown:
Fletcher
Henderson
: Through the Night
With Donald Macleod.1.00 Choral Evensong from St
Bride's Church, Fleet Street, London Repeated from yesterday 4pm
2.00 Piano Music by Mozart,
Schubert and Liszt Barbara Moser
3.25 Dance Music for Orchestra St
Christopher CO/Donatas Katkus.
Including waltzes by Dvorak, a dance suite by Lithuanian composer
Osvaldas Balakauskas , and Johan Helmich Roman 's Golovin Music
4.20 Haydn Heligmesse.
Desiree Rancatore (soprano), Etsuko Kanoh (mezzo), Lothar Odinius (tenor), Detlef Roth (bass), Salzburg Bach Choir, Salzburg Mozarteum Orchestra/ Hubert Soudant
5.00 Sequence
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod.
Unknown:
Liszt Barbara
Moser
Unknown:
Osvaldas
Balakauskas
Unknown:
Johan Helmich
Roman
Music:
Haydn
Heligmesse.
Soprano:
Desiree
Rancatore
Soprano:
Etsuko
Kanoh
Tenor:
Lothar
Odinius
Tenor:
Detlef
Roth
Unknown:
Hubert
Soudant
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