Barber Overture: The
School for Scandal Utah SO/
Joseph Silverstein
7.09 Faure Nocturne No
12 in E minor, Op 107 Paul Crossley (piano)
7.16 Hoist Suite in F for Wind Band
Cleveland Symphonic
Winds/Frederick Fennell
7.35 Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue
(original jazz version) RPO/Andrew Litton
7.52 Mendelssohn
Scherzo (A Midsummer Night's Dream)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment/ Charles Mackerras
7.57 Debussy Ballade Slav
Kathryn Stott (piano)
8.05 Bizet L 'arlesienne
(Suite No 1)
French National Radio
Orchestra/Thomas
Beecham. Records
Beethoven
A selective look at his music via five sets of variations.
24 Variations on Righini's 'Venni amore ' (WoO 65) John Ogdon (piano)
Cantata on the Death of the Emperor Joseph II (WoO 87)
Martina Arroyo (soprano) Justino Diaz (bass) Camerata Singers NYPO/
Thomas Schippers
Records. Producer David Papp
Music by Charles Villiers Stanford and a few of his distinguished pupils: Vaughan Williams , Thomas Dunhill , Ireland, Howells, Dyson, Gurney,
Bridge and Hoist. Producer Mark Rowlinson
Ralph Kirshbaum , with Roger Vignoles (piano)
Beethoven Variations on 'Ein Madchen oder
Weibchen', Op 66
Shostakovich Sonata in D minor, Op 40
Schumann Fantasiestucke , Op 73 (R)
The opening concert of the 1990/91 season, live from St John 's,
Smith Square, London.
Yvonne Kenny (soprano) Russell Smythe (baritone) Imogen Cooper (piano) BBC Symphony Orchestra leader Dennis Simons conductor Andrew Davis Mozart Bella mia fiamma (K 528); Cosi dunque tradisci (432); Misera, dove son! (369); Rondo in A (386); Un bacio di mano (54 1); Mentre ti lascio, o figlia (513); Ch'iomi scordi di te? (505)
Series producer Misha Donat
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Five programmes of recordings of the former principal conductor of the BBC Concert
Orchestra, who died in May aged 55.
Cherubini Overture:
L'Hotellerie portugaise Rossini Variations in C
Wolf-Ferrari Intermezzo
No 1 (Jewels of the Madonna)
Busoni Concertino in B flat, Op 48
Suppe Overture: Irrfahrt ums
Gluck Paul Meyer (clarinet)
with Roger Bigley (viola) Ireland String Quartet No 1 in D minor
Vaughan Williams Phantasy Quintet
Simpson Quintet for Strings (R)
Keith Jarvis (organ) Peter Dickinson
Three Pieces:
Study in Pianissimo;
Meditation on 'Murder in the Cathedral'; Toccata for organ;
Blue Rose Variations; A Cambridge Postlude
Lyndon Jenkins with a programme of composers' views of youth. Producer David Papp
Stephen Sondheim , whose musical Into the Woods opened in London last week, talks with Rodney Milnes.
Producer Fiona McLean
Second programme.
Le Roux Suite No 2 in D
Francois Couperin
Pièces de clavecin: Ordre
No 15; Musete de Choisi; Musete de Taverni
Armand-Louis Couperin Symphonie de clavecins in D
Le Roux Suite No 6 in F sharp minor: William Christie , Christophe Rousset (h'chords)
(Third prog Wednesday 10.30pm)
live from the Theatre du
Châtelet, opening the EBU's 1990/91 season.
Julia Varady (soprano) Suisse Romande Orch conductor Armin Jordan
Benjamin Britten
Sinfonia da Requiem
Strauss Four Last Songs
9.20 Frederic Raphael reflects on changing French intellectual attitudes.
9.40 Debussy Six
épigraphes antiques Ravel La Valse
Glasgow-born Edwin Morgan , who sees his Collected Poems published this month, talks with Joseph Farrell. Producer Stewart Conn
Mark Russell and Robert Sandall present fortnightly programmes of music mixing styles and influences, and the musicians who play it. Including an interview with David Harrington of the Kronos Quartet. Producer Anthony Cheevers
Ibert Escales; The Ballad of Reading Gaol;
Concerto for cello and wind instruments
