Listings
: On Air
Stephanie Hughes with music and arts news, including a review of Ashley Page's new ballet which opened at the Barbican last night. Music includes Bach's Partita in E, BWV1006, played by violinist Pekka Kuusisto at 6.30; Saint-Saens'sBacchanale from his opera Samson and Delilah played by the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, conductor Lorin Maazel , at 7.05; Schubert's An Silvia sung by baritone Bryn Terfel at 7.30; and Vaughan Williams's Serenade to Music after the news at 8.00.
Contributors
Unknown:
Stephanie
Hughes
Violinist:
Pekka
Kuusisto
Conductor:
Lorin
Maazel
Sung By:
Bryn
Terfel
: Masterworks
With Peter Hobday.Britten Occasional Overture
CBSO, conductor Simon Rattle
9.08 Strauss Burleske
Helene Grimaud (piano),
German Symphony Orchestra, conductor David Zinman
9.31 Bizet Carmen (Entr'acte; Act 4) Victoria de los Angeles (soprano), Nicolai Gedda (tenor),
Ernest Blanc (baritone),
French Radio Choir and Orchestra, conductor Thomas Beecham
9.55 Mozart Symphony No 39 in E flat, K543
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt
Contributors
Unknown:
Peter
Hobday.
Conductor:
Simon
Rattle
Conductor:
Strauss
Burleske
Piano:
Helene
Grimaud
Conductor:
David
Zinman
Conductor:
Bizet
Carmen
Tenor:
Nicolai
Gedda
Baritone:
Ernest
Blanc
Conductor:
Thomas
Beecham
Conductor:
Nikolaus
Harnoncourt
: Artist of the Week
Cecilia BartoliHailed as the Rossini mezzo of the nineties, Cecilia Bartoli made her recording debut in The Barber of Seville. Since then, she has captured the imagination of the record-buying public with a stream of award-winning recordings. Rossini remains a favourite, and today she talks to
Joan Bakewell about her love of his operatic and sacred music, with music from Semiramide, La
Cenerentola and the Stabat Mater.
Contributors
Unknown:
Cecilia
Bartoli
Unknown:
Cecilia
Bartoli
Unknown:
Joan
Bakewell
Unknown:
Stabat
Mater.
: Sound Stories
Five Biblical CharactersWith Donald Macleod.
3: Solomon. The son of King David and Bathsheba, Solomon became a ruler famous for his wisdom and judgement - and also for the magnificent extravagance of his court. Including excerpts from:
Handel Coronation Anthem No 1:
Zadok the Priest Choir of Westminster
Abbey, conductor Martin Neary Purcell My Beloved Spake, Z28 Monteverdi Choir,
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Monteverdi Nigra Sum (1610 Vespers) Philip Langridge (tenor),
Monteverdi Orchestra , conductor John Eliot Gardiner Handel Arrival of the Queen of Sheba (Solomon) English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot Gardiner
Contributors
Unknown:
Donald
MacLeod.
Conductor:
Martin
Neary
Conductor:
John Eliot
Gardiner
Tenor:
Philip
Langridge
Tenor:
Monteverdi
Orchestra
Conductor:
John Eliot
Gardiner
Conductor:
Handel
Arrival
Conductor:
John Eliot
Gardiner
: Composer of the Week Beethoven
Beethoven and Archduke Rudolph With Misha Donat.Piano Sonata in E minor, Op 90 Emil Gilels
Piano Trio in B flat, Op 97 (Archduke) Isaac Stern (violin), Leonard Rose (cello), Eugene Istomin (piano)
Repeated next Wednesday 12 midnight
INVENTING AMERICA
Contributors
Piano:
Misha
Donat.
Piano:
Emil
Gilels
Violin:
Isaac
Stern
Violin:
Leonard
Rose
Cello:
Eugene
Istomin
: The Radio 3 Lunchtime Concert
From the New WorldThe sixth of eight recitals of American music from St George 's, Brandon Hill , Bristol. Introduced by Chris de Souza.
Lyric Quartet, William Hawkes (viola) William Bolcom Three Rags Gershwin Lullaby
Dvorak String Quintet in E flat, Op 97 (American)
Contributors
Unknown:
St
George
Unknown:
Brandon
Hill
Introduced By:
Chris
de Souza.
Viola:
William
Hawkes
Viola:
William
Bolcom
: The BBC Orchestras
BBC PhilharmonicConductor Yan Pascal Tortelier, Peter Donohoe (piano)
Stravinsky Suite: The Firebird (1945) Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 2 in G
Prokofiev Suite: Romeo and Juliet
Contributors
Piano:
Peter
Donohoe
: Choral Evensong
From Truro Cathedral.Introit: Prevent Us, 0 Lord
(Byrd)
Responses (Radcliffe)
Psalm 119, w41-56 (Hopkins) First Lesson: Joshua 9, w3-end Office Hymn: 0 Lux Beata Trinitas (mode 8)
Canticles: Stanford in A
Second Lesson: Luke 9, w51-end
Anthem: Steal Away (Negro spiritual, arr Adelmann)
Hymn: Fill Thou My Life (Richmond) Organ Voluntary: Psalm Prelude, Set 1 No 1 (Howells)
Organist and master of the choristers Andrew Nethsingha.
Assistant organist Simon Morley.
Contributors
Unknown:
Andrew
Nethsingha.
Organist:
Simon
Morley.
: In Tune
Giles Swayne 's new work The Silent Land receives its world premiere at this year's Spitalfields Festival. Humphrey Carpenter talks to the composer about the many influences on his work - including African chant - and his new work, written for 40 voices and solo cello. Music includesTallis's 40-part motet Spem in Alium, Faure's Fantaisie for flute, and, before the arts news at 7.00,
Gershwin's An American in Paris.
INVENTING AMERICA
Contributors
Unknown:
Giles
Swayne
Talks:
Humphrey
Carpenter
: Performance on 3
A concert given in April at the Cambridge Corn Exchange. Britten Sinfonia , conductor Stefan Asbury Nancarrow TangoZappa Bebop Tango; Get Whitey John Adams Chamber Symphony Stravinsky Tango; Ragtime
Nancarrow Study for Player Piano Steve Reich Music for Large Ensemble
Zappa G-Spot Tornado
* Brian Kay 's Concert of the Week: page 48
INVENTING AMERICA
Contributors
Conductor:
Britten
Sinfonia
Conductor:
Stefan
Asbury
Piano:
Steve Reich
Music
Unknown:
Brian
Kay
: Postscript
The Screenwriters - Hollywood in the NinetiesThird of five programmes in which Christopher Cook talks to five of Hollywood's screenwriters.
3: Andrew Bergman , a veteran whose credits include Blazing Saddles,
Fletch and the notorious Demi Moore film Striptease. Repeat
Contributors
Talks:
Christopher
Cook
Unknown:
Andrew
Bergman
Unknown:
Demi
Moore
: Bingham Quartet
Tchaikovsky String Quartet No 3 in E flat minor, Op 30: The Piano
The Grieg and Grainger ConnectionIn 1906, the Australian pianist Percy Grainger met Edvard Grieg. Grieg invited Grainger to Norway to study his piano concerto, and Grainger became one of Grieg's favourite interpreters of his music. Piers Lane explores the Grainger-Grieg connection and includes recordings by Emil Gilels and by Grieg and Grainger themselves. Producer Chris Wines
Repeated tomorrow 4pm
Contributors
Pianist:
Percy
Grainger
Unknown:
Edvard
Grieg.
Unknown:
Emil
Gilels
: Night Waves
Patrick Wright discusses new interpretations of the work of one of the most influential voices in 20th-century poetry - WH Auden, as the novelist and poet John Fuller publishes a full-scale commentary to every Auden poem, play and libretto. Producer Robert KetteridgeINVENTING AMERICA
Contributors
Unknown:
Patrick
Wright
Unknown:
John
Fuller
Producer:
Robert
Ketteridge
: Jazz Notes
With Digby Fairweather. Part 2 of the concert featuring the music of Gil Evans performed by David Sanborn and the Danish RadioJazz Orchestra.
INVENTING AMERICA
Contributors
Unknown:
Digby
Fairweather.
Unknown:
Gil
Evans
Unknown:
David
Sanborn
: Composer of the Week: Ives
Presented by Chris Wines. In the AlleyHenry Herford (baritone), Robin Bowman (piano) Country Band March
Orchestra of New England, conductor James Sinclair
String Quartet No 2 Emerson Quartet Hawthorne (Piano Sonata No 2, Concord) John Kirkpatrick Decoration Day (Holidays)
Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas
Repeated from last Wednesday
Contributors
Presented By:
Chris
Wines.
Piano:
Robin
Bowman
Conductor:
James
Sinclair
Unknown:
John
Kirkpatrick
Conductor:
Michael Tilson
Thomas
: Through the Night
With Donald Macleod.1.00 Organist Jean Guillou improvises on Bruckner's Prelude in C (Perg), Agnus Dei (Mass No 2 in E minor), Symphony No 2 in C minor (Scherzo), Symphony No 5 in B flat (4th mvt) and Symphony No 9 in D minor (1st mvt).
1.50 Schubert Overture in the Italian
Style Danish National Radio
Symphony Orchestra/Marcello Viotti
2.15 Ernst Fabritius Violin Concerto
Olavi Palli , Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Pertti Pekkanen
2.45 Anton Solnttz Sinfonia in A
Music ad Rhenum
3.00 Schools
3.00 Time and Tune 3.20 Together
3.40 Dance Workshop 4.00 Counting Time 4.10 History 9-11
4.30 Dukas Villanelle Esa Tukia
(horn), Finnish Radio Symphony
Orchestra, conductor Michel Adelson
5.00 Chabrier Espana
Toronto SO, conductor Andrew Davis
5.20 Mozart Piano Concerto No 11 in F, K413 Brabant Orchestra, conductor Tamas Vasary (piano)
5.45 Chopin Ballade No 3 in A flat, Op 47 Valerie Tryon (piano)
Contributors
Organist:
Donald
MacLeod.
Organist:
Jean
Guillou
Unknown:
Agnus
Dei
Unknown:
Olavi
Palli
Conductor:
Pertti
Pekkanen
Conductor:
Anton Solnttz
Sinfonia
Conductor:
Michel
Adelson
Conductor:
Andrew
Davis
Conductor:
Tamas
Vasary
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