Technology: Bridging the Gap
Wagner Overture:
The Flying Dutchman LPO/DOWNES
7.16* Bartok Piano Concerto No 2: VLADIMIR ASHKENAZY LPO/SOLTI
7.46* Bernstein Three Dance Episodes from On the Town NEW YORK PO/THE COMPOSER
8.0 News
8.5 Beethoven Overture: Leonora No 2
CLEVELAND ORCHESTRA/SZELL
8.19* Schumann Cello
Concerto: JACQUEUNE DU PRÉ NEW PHILHARMONIA/BARENBOIM
8.44* Barber Serenade for strings: LOS ANGELES CO/ GERARD SCHWARZ records
Shostakovich: The Final Years Symphony No 15, in A, Op 141 Death; Immortality (from Suite on verses by Michelangelo, Op 145a) YEVGENY NESTERENKO (bass) MOSCOW RADIO SO/
MAXIM SHOSTAKOVICH records
BBC SCOTTISH SYMPHONY
ORCHESTRA leader GEOFFREY TRABICHOFF conducted by JIRI STAREK
Martinu Sinfonietta La Jolla Dvorak The Water-Sprite BBC Scotland
VIRGINIA BLACK (harpsichord) Bach Fantasia and Fugue in A minor (BWV 944)
Scarlatti Essercizi (Sonatas) in F sharp major (KK 318/319) Bach Toccata in D (BWV 912) BBC Bristol
leader DESMOND BRADLEY conducted by NORMAN DEL MAR philip FOWKE (piano) Part 1
Honegger Nocturne
Poulenc Piano Concerto
Part 2 Vincent d'Indy
Symphony No 2, in B flat, Op 57 BBC Wales
direct from the Broadcasting Centre, Birmingham
Members of the Nash Ensemble Marcia Crayford (violin) David Ogden (violin) Roger Chase (viola)
Christopher van Kampen (cello)
Michael Collins (clarinet) Ian Brown (piano)
Weber Clarinet Quintet, Op 34 Mozart Clarinet Trio in E flat (K 498) (Kegelstatt Trio) BBC Birmingham
Opera in two acts
Libretto by JACOPO FERRETTI Music by Rossini (sung in Italian)
CHORUS AND ORCHESTRA OF THE WÜRTTEMBERG STATE OPERA,
STUTTGART conducted by GABRIELE FERRO Act 1
3.40* Interval Reading
3.45* Act 2
(South German Radio recording from the 1984 Schwetzingen Festival)
Presented by Michael Berkeley Producer GARETH WALTERS
BESSES 0' TH' BARN BAND Conductor ROY NEWSOME Philip Sparke Jubilee Overture
Granville Bantock Orion Frank CordeU Movements BBC Manchester
Shelley's Anatomy of Love
Compiled by judith CHERNAIK from Shelley's poems and letters, and the letters and journals of Mary Shelley and Edward and Jane Williams.
Music composed by jm PARKER and performed by NIGEL NORTH (guitar)
Producer PETER WINDOWS BBC Birmingham
SIR ALEXANDER GIBSON
OSCAR SHUMSKY (violin)
Schubert Symphony No 8, in B minor (Unfinished)
7.55* Interval Reading
8.0* Spohr Violin Concerto No 8, in A minor
Schubert Symphony No 5, in B flat
A short story by CAROL RUMENS read by Susan Engel
Iain Hamilton Cello Sonata No 2 (1974)
Beethoven Cello Sonata in d, Op 102 No 2
ALEXANDER BAILLIE (cello)
KATHRON STURROCK (piano)
'I suspect that Ferneyhough's real concern is not with expressionism, with what performers can or cannot do, or with what audiences can or cannot assimilate. His concern is with the creative act itself, and with the constraints it imposes, however strongly the creator strives for total freedom.'
Arnold Whittall introduces second hearings of three works spanning the last 15 years.
Missa Brevis (1969) - JOHN ALLDIS CHOIR conductor JOHN ALLDIS
String Quartet No 2 (1979/80) - ARDITTI STRING QUARTET
Carceri d'Invenzione I (1982) - LONDON SINFONIETTA conducted by Oliver KNUSSEN
Elgar Three Part Songs, Op 53
Hoist Rig Veda Hymns (Set 3) Richard Rodney Bennett
Sea Change (Three Choirs Festival commission: first performance) Elgar Go song of mine
BBC Birmingham
