Humour in Classical Music
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Berlioz Queen Mab Scherzo (Romeo and Juliet)
MONTREAL SO CHARLES DUTOiT
7.08* Poulenc Pastourelle PASCAL roge (piano)
7.11* Caplet Conte fantastique (The Masque of the Red Death) VANESSA MCKEAND (harp) ECO/EDMON COLOMER
7.30 News
7.35 Bach Fugue in c minor
(Das Wohltemperierte Klavier: Book 1)
RASCHER SAXOPHONE QUARTET
7.37* Ravel Une barque sur l'océan MONTREAL SO/CHARLES DUTOIT
7.45* Gounod Chanson de printemps
ELLY AMELING (SOpranO) RUDOLF JANSEN (piano)
7.48* Kalinnikov Symphony No 1 in G minor
SNO/NEEMEJARVI Records
Haydn
Missa
Sancti Nicolai
JUDITH NELSON (soprano) EMMA KIRKBY (soprano)
SHIRLEY MINTY (contralto)
ROGERS COVEY-CRUMP (tenor) DAVID THOMAS (bass)
CHOIR OF CHRIST CHURCH CATHEDRAL.
OXFORD/SIMON PRESTON Symphony No 45 in F sharp minor (Farewell) ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA Records
Joseph Lauber Quatre danses medievales
James Dower (flute) Sioned Williams (harp)
9.49* Bach Aria and Duet: Mein Freund ist mein (Cantata Nol40: Wachet auf)
Julianna Baird (soprano) Jan Opalach (bass)
Mozart Sonata in F (K 497)
Bernard Roberts and Yolande Wrigley (piano duet)
10.25* Salieri Concerto in C for flute, oboe and orchestra
Aurele Nicolet (flute) Heinz Holliger (oboe)
Academy of St Martin in the Fields; Kenneth Sillito
Brahms Double Concerto in A minor, Op 102
Isaac Stern (violin) Yo-Yo Ma (cello)
Chicago SO Claudio Abbado
11.19* Spohr Sonata in D
James Dower (flute)
Sioned Williams (harp)
Tchaikovsky The Steeping Beauty: Act 3 (excerpts)
Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra Antal Dorati
11.47* Schubert Rondo in A (D951)
Bernard Roberts and Yolande Wrigley (piano duet)
(BBC Pebble Mill)
Alan Cuckston (harpsichord) Ulster Orchestra led by Richard Howarth conducted by Colman Pearce
Ina Boyle Overture (1934) Raymond Deane Embers
James Wilson Harpsichord Concerto
Brian Boydell In Memoriam Mahatma Gandhi, Op 30
Live from Studio 7
Nicholas Daniel (oboe) Junus Drake (piano)
Britten Two Insect Pieces
Beethoven Adagio for mechanical clock: Sonata, Op 87
Britten A Time There Was; The Cuckoo; Temporal Variations
BBC Manchester
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Andante festivo; Humoresques Nos 1 and 2, Op 87;
Humoresques Nos 3-6. Op 89; Rakastava
Krzysztof Smietana (violin) Langham Chamber Orchestra led by John Ludlow conducted by John Beckett
Schubert's song-cycle to 20 poems by Wilhelm Muller, performed at the 1988 Schwetzingen Festival by Hans Peter Blochwitz (tenor) Cord Garben (piano)
(South German Radio recording)
Music for viols from mid-17th-century England.
The ROSE CONSORT plays ayres to the organ by John Jenkins. divisions by Christopher Simpson and an organ fancy by Tomkins. AUSONCRUMand
JOHN BRYAN (trebles) ELIZABETH LIDDLE and MARK CAUDLE (basses) TtM ROBERTS(organ) (R)
led by HARRY CAWOOD conducted by JACEK KASPRZYK
The third of six programmes. Mendelssohn Symphony No 1 in c minor
SehoenbergVerMarte Nacht BBC Manchester (R)
The last often parts, written and read by Brian Wright. Eastern Promise
'Catching a train from Penge
East always feels much classier than catching one from Penge West. It's the difference in destination. Victoria has a rakish, elegant air, provided you don't use the lavatories.'
Producer MATTHEW WALTERS Mono
In this final programme John Fordham reaches 1935 the year usually regarded as heralding the swing age, when Benny Goodman first made an impact on the American public. Goodman became the most successful band leader commercially, but Duke Ellington, Jimmie Lunceford and Benny Carter were the most innovative and their influence is still apparent today.
Presented by David Owen Morris It is the green ey'd monster which doth
Mock that meat it feeds on. SHAKESPEARE. Othello
Act 3 Scene 3
The artist David Tremlett talks with WUliam Feaver about his wall drawings, currently on show at the Serpentine Gallery, London. Producer JUDtTH BUMPUS
(cello)
MAUD MARTIN TORTELIER (cello) GEOFFREYPRATLEY(piano)
Live from Studio 1, Pebble Mill Francois Couperin Concert No 13 in G. for two cellos
Bach Suite No 2 in D minor for soto cello (Bwv 1008)
Handel, arr Tortelier/FemUard Trio Sonata in G minor (nwv 393), for two ceUos and piano
8.20* Paul Tortelier in conversation with Roger Nichols.
8.40* Rachmaninov Cello Sonata in c minor. Op 19
Paul Tortelier Valse , alia Maud Paganini. arr Tortelier
Introduction and Variations on Rossini's 'Dal tuo stellate BBCPe&MeAftH
by Maurice Maeterlinck, translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker
With Gary Cady as Pelleas
Janet Maw as Melisande
Jack Klaff as Golaud
and Maurice Denham as Arkel
First produced in Paris in 1893 "Pelleas and Melisande" is one of the major works of symbolist drama. Destiny brings Prince Golaud and the mysterious young Melisande together by a fountain in the forest, and fate decrees that she and his half-brother, PelIeas, are inexorably drawn together in a relationship which can only end in tragedy. (R)
Khovanshchina: Persian Slave Dance (Act 4): Act 5 Song cycle: Sunless (Broacast Mt hs< fnda!/)
