John Toal concludes a week of farewells with Beethoven's last piano sonata and the second half of Bach's The Art of Fugue, performed by the Amsterdam Baroque Soloists at various points throughout the programme. He also celebrates the birthday of Michael Tippett.
Nicolai Overture: The Merry Wives of Windsor
Vienna Philharmonic/Carlos Kleiber
10.16 Tippett Songs for Ariel Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Graham Johnson (piano) 10,21 Charles Wood Two Shakespeare Partsongs
Choir of Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, director Geoffrey Weber
10.27 Masterprize:
Saveljev Scars of the Soul BBC Concert Orchestra, conductor Andrea Quinn
10.45 Artist of the Week:
Conductor Robert Shaw
Rachmaninov Matins (Vespers) Robert Shaw Festival Singers
11.19 Beethoven Piano Sonata in C minor, Op 111 Ivo Pogorelich